Nikos Paragios

Nikos Paragios is professor (Professeur des universités - première classe) at the Ecole Centrale de Paris - one of most exclusive engineering schools "Grande Ecoles" - leading the Medical Imaging and Computer Vision Group at the Applied Mathematics Department.  He is also affiliated with INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, the French Research Institute in Informatics and Control heading the GALEN group, a joint research team between ECP/INRIA.

Prior to that he was professor/research scientist (2004-2005) at the Ecole Nationale de Ponts et Chaussees, affiliated with  Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton, NJ, 1999-2004) as a project manager, senior research scientist and research scientist. In 2002 he was an adjunct professor at Rutgers University and in 2004 at New York University. N. Paragios was a visiting professor at Yale University in 2007.

Professor Paragios has co-edited four books, published more than hundred  papers (DBLP server) in the most prestigious journals and conferences of medical imaging and computer vision, fourteen US issued patents and more than twenty pending. His work has approx 4,500 citations according to googlescholar and 2,500 according to scopus,  and and his H-number according to scholar is 31 and 25 according to scopus. Professor Paragios is a Senior member of IEEE, associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), area editor for the Computer Vision and Image Understanding  Journal (CVIU) and member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), the Medical Image Analysis Journal (MedIA) and the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV). Professor Paragios is one of the program chairs of the 11th European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV'10, Heraklion, Crete). 

In 2008 N. Paragios was the laureate of one of Greece's highest honor for young academics and scientists of nationality or descent (world-wide), the Bodossaki Foundation Prize in the field of applied sciences. In 2006, he was named one of the top 35 innovators  in science and technology under the age of 35 from the MIT's Technology Review magazine (article). His research interests include image processing, computer vision, medical image analysis and human computer interaction.

EDUCATION: B.Sc. (highest honors, valedictorian) and M.Sc. (highest honors) in Computer Science [ University of Crete (Greece) - 1994,1996] , Ph.D. (highest honors) in electrical and computer engineering  [I.N.R.I.A., 2000] HDR (Habilitation a Diriger de Recherches - D.Sc.) [ University of Nice/Sophia Antipolis (France), 2005)].

N. Paragios is member of the board of trustees of the Association Francaise contre les Myopathies, a non-profit structure aiming to help patients and support research for muscular diseases. You can make a donation here.