Anastasios Venetsanopoulos

Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos is the current Vice-President of Research and Innovation at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario and is a Professor Emeritus with the Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.

Education

Anastasios Venetsanopoulos received the Bachelors of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTU) Greece, in 1965, and an M.S., M. Phil., and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1966, 1968 and 1969 respectively.

Publications and Grants

Tas Venetsanopoulos has received multiple grants from the National Science and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), along with many other private sector grants and contracts from Bell Canada and Spar Aerospace. He has co-authored 35 books and published over 800 academic papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Among his many publications, "Nonlinear Filters in Image Processing: Principles Application", "Artificial Neural Networks: Learning Algorithms, Performance Evaluation" [ [http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Nonlinear-Digital-Filters-Principles-Applications-Pitas-Venetsanopoulos/9780792390497-item.html?ref=Search+Books%3a+%2527venetsanopoulos%2527&sterm=venetsanopoulos+-+Books chapters.indigo.ca: Nonlinear Digital Filters: Principles And Applications: I. Pitas, Ioannis Pitas, Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos: Books ] ] and "Color Image Processing and Applications" are his most influential contributions to the field according to harzing.com. [ [http://www.harzing.com/resources.htm#/pop.htm Harzing.com - Research in International and Cross-cultural Management ] ]

Career

Dr. Venetsanopoulos joined the University of Toronto Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1968 as a Lecturer and became a Professor in 1981. From 2001 to 2006, he served as the Dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. There, he successfully helped the faculty raise $125 million in donations through the Great Minds for a Great Future campaign. [ [http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/01summer/newandnotable.asp U of T Magazine - University of Toronto ] ] In 2003, he was appointed as the Chair of the Council of Deans of Engineering of the Province of Ontario. He also served as the President of the Canadian Society for Electrical Engineering from 1983 to 1986. [www.dsp.toronto.edu/~anv/CURRICULUMXVITAE.doc] He is the first Vice-President of Research and Innovation. A post created to encourage research initiatives at Ryerson University. [ [http://www.ryerson.ca/news/media/General_Public/20060704_st_mr_vpri.html General_Public - News & Events - Ryerson University ] ] Anastasios Venetsanopoulos was appointed as the founding Vice-President of Research and Innovation at Ryerson on October 1, 2006. Currently, A.N. Venetsanopoulos is on research leave at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, the National Technical University of Athens, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Florence and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.

Professional Contributions

A.N. Venetsanopoulos has served as a Chair on numerous boards, councils and technical conference committees of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), such as the Toronto Section from 1977-1979 and the IEEE Central Canada Council from 1980 to 1982. He was both a guest editor and an associate editor for several IEEE journals. Tas Venetsanopoulos served as the Canadian Society for Electrical Engineering and Cive President of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) from 1983 to 1986 and was the Editor of the Canadian Electrical Engineering Journal from 1981 to 1983.http://www.dsp.utoronto.ca/~anv/]

Awards

For his numerous publications, Dr. Venetsanopoulos was awarded the “Excellence in Innovation Award from the Information Technology Research Centre of Ontario and the Royal Bank of Canada in October 1996. In 2003, he was awarded the “Millennium Medal of IEEE,” and that same year the IEEE awarded Dr. Venetsanopoulos the MacNaughton Award, its highest form of recognition. In 2008, A.N. Venetsanopoulos along with Rastislac Lukac, Bogdan Smolka and Konstantinos N. Plataniotis were awarded the "Most Cited Paper Award" by the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. [ [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622906/description#description Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation - Elsevier ] ] . The award is given to the paper that receives the highest number of citations.

References

Ryerson (2006), http://www.ryerson.ca/news/media/General_Public/20060704_st_mr_vpri.html

University of Toronto, (2006) http://www.dsp.utoronto.ca/~anv/

Venetsanopoulos (2006), www.dsp.toronto.edu/~anv/CURRICULUMXVITAE.doc

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