Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou

Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou is a professor of biomedical engineering and the Director of Computational Intelligence Laboratories at Rutgers University. Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou is also a Founding Fellow of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine. [ [http://www.electricalengineeringnetbase.com/ejournals/editors/EditorBio.asp?Editor_ID=23656 ElectricalEngineeringnetBASE: Electrical and Electronic Engineering References Online ] ] Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou's areas of interest include neural networks, information processing in the brain, image and signal processing applied to biomedicine, telemedicine, mammography, hearing aids and electronic equivalents of neurons. [ [http://sciencewomen.rutgers.edu/profiles/index.php?a=display&f=facultyprofile&id=132 Rutgers: Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics- Faculty Profile ] ] Dr. Evandelia Micheli-Tzanakou received international attention in 1974 when she established the first Brain to Computer Interface (BCI) using her algorithm ALOPEX. This method was used in the study of Parkinson's disease. The ALOPEX algorithm has also been applied toward signal processing, image processing, and pattern recognition. [ [http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/em-t.html IEEE - Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou ] ]

Books

* Pattichis, C.S., Schizas, C.N., Micheli-Tzanakou, E., and Pattichis, M.S. Handbook Of Computational Intelligence in Medical Systems, to appear in 2005, Biomedical Engineering Series, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY.

* Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition :Feature Extraction in Computational Intelligence CRC Press, 371 pages, Jan 2000. [ [http://cil.rutgers.edu/tzanakou/etresearch.htm Evangelia Micheli Tzanakou ] ]

Awards

* Meritorious Service Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - CIS, 2006

* NJ Women of Achievement Award 1995 for the application of neural networks to engineering in medicine and biology

* Achievement Award of the Society of Women Engineers, 1992

* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Outstanding Advisor Award, 1985 [ [http://sciencewomen.rutgers.edu/profiles/index.php?a=display&f=facultyprofile&id=132 Rutgers: Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics- Faculty Profile ] ]

Education

* B.S. Physics, University of Athens, Greece, 1968

* M.A. Physics, Syracuse University, 1974

* Ph.D. Physics, Syracuse University, 1977

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