Education

1995	Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
1994	M.Phil., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
1992	M.S., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
1990	Diploma, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (5-year program)
1985	High School Diploma, Varvakeios Protypos School, Athens, Greece

Awards

ACM Multimedia 2004 Open Source Software Award (for the Flavor language).

NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 1997-2001.

E. I. Jury Award, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 1994
("For outstanding achievement as a graduate student in the fields of Systems, Communications, and Signal Processing").

Paul V. Nichoplas Scholarship, Columbia University, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95.

Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, September 1990 - June 1995.

Fellowship, National Scholarship Foundation of Greece, 1989-90.

Academic Excellence Award, Technical Chamber of Greece, 1989-90.

Activities

Elected Member, Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, term of 2001-2005.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, since 1998.

Editor of the ISO/IEC 14496-1 International Standard (MPEG-4 Systems), “Generic Coding of Audio-Visual Objects”. The standard is developed by the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 (MPEG) group, and has been approved as an International Standard in January 1999. It is currently supported by several leading media players, including Apple’s QuickTime (extensive native support), Microsoft’s Media Player (video only), and RealNetworks’ RealPlayer (through plug-in).

Advisory board member of ThinkEngine Networks, Inc. (since 9/2000).

Program Committee Member, EURASIP Conference on Image/Video Processing and Multimedia Communications, since 2002.

Program Committee Member, Packet Video Workshop, since 2002.

Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Exposition (ICME), since 2000 (New York, NY, July 2000, Tokyo, Japan, August 2001, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2003). Tutorials Co-Chair for the 2000 event, Program Track Chair for the 2003 event.

Organizing Committee Member, Workshop and Exhibition on MPEG-4, since 2000 (part of IEEE ISCAS in 2000, a separate event sponsored by the MPEG-4 Industry Forum since 2001).

Program Committee Member, EUROIMAGE 2001, Int’l Conference on Augmented, Virtual Environments and 3D Imaging (ICAV3D), Mykonos, Greece, May-June 2001.

Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, October 1999, Palm Springs, California.

Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, June 1999, Florence, Italy.

Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Synthetic-Natural Hybrid Coding and 3D Imaging, since 1998.

Program Committee Member, IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), since 1997. Also co-organizer of the 1997 workshop at Columbia University.

Guest Editor, International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Video on Demand Systems: Technology, Interoperability, and Trials, Spring 1997.

Co-chairman, Workshop on Video on Demand Systems: Technology, Interoperability, and Trials, June 24, 1996, Columbia University.

Co-organizer, 13th Digital Audio Visual Council (DAVIC) Meeting and Interoperability Event, June 17-21, 1996, New York.

Program Review Committee Member, ACM Multimedia ’96 Conference, November 18–22, 1996, Boston.

Referee for IEEE Proceedings, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Signal Processing:Image Communication Journal, ACM/Springer Verlag Multimedia Systems Journal, SPIE Optical Engineering Journal, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing Journal, IEE Proceedings–Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Telecommunication Systems Journal, IEEE ICIP Conference, IEEE ICASSP Conference, ACM Multimedia Conference, Very Low Bit Rate Video Conference, IEEE Infocom Conference, IEEE Communications Letters, Global Internet Conference.

Secretary of the Greek Student Branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), term of 1989-1990.

Membership in Standardization Bodies

International Standardization Organization (ISO), JTC1/SC29/WG11 (MPEG) Working Group. Develops international standards for audiovisual information representation and coding, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and the forthcoming MPEG-4 and MPEG-7.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI), National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS), L3.1 Working Group. Formerly known as the X3L3.1 Committee, it develops US standards for audiovisual information representation and coding.

Digital Audio Visual Council (DAVIC). International consortium of industrial and academic organizations developing standards for interfaces and protocols for video on demand systems.

Membership in Professional and Scientific Societies

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 1987 (S '87, M '96, SM '02).

Technical Chamber of Greece, since 1990.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), since 1993 (S '93, M '96).

Audio Engineering Society (AES), since 2000.

Greek Association of Image Processing and Digital Media, since 2001 (founding member)

Software Skills

Primary languages and tools: C++, C, Java, Perl, HTML/CGI, sh/awk/sed, lex/yacc

Additional languages
: JavaScript/VBScript, VBA (Word, Outlook, Access), TeX/LaTeX, Matlab, Pascal, Fortran, Prolog, Lisp and assembly language for the Intel x86 family of microprocessors.

Development environments: Visual Studio, Visual SourceSafe, StarTeam, SlickEdit, GNU tools (Emacs, gcc, gdb, autoconf), RCS.

Music software: Pro Tools (operator training by Digidesign) and a large collection of related plugins (Digidesign, Waves, Bomb Factory, Native Instruments etc.), Gigastudio, Reason, ReCycle, Wavelab, Sibelius, Finale.

Extensive programming and administration experience in Microsoft Windows 95/98, NT, and 2000 systems, including Win32, MFC, COM, OLE, ActiveX, and ActiveMovie/DirectX.

Extensive system administration and programming experience on the UNIX operating system (systems and network programming, for both BSD and System V) and the X Window System (Motif, XView, and Xlib programming).