CSE Faculty Details

Vassilis Athitsos
Assistant Professor

• Office : 309 Nedderman Hall
• Office Hours : MW 4-5p, TR 2-3p and F: 12 - 1p
• Phone : 817-272-0155
• E-mail Address : athitsos AT uta.edu
• Website : http://vlm1.uta.edu/~athitsos/
• Primary Research Stem : Computer Vision
• Additional Research Stem :
  • Intelligent Systems
• Research Interests : Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Gesture and Sign Language Recognition, Medical Image Analysis, Image and Video Databases.
• Course Schedule :
  • CSE 4308.001 : TR: 12:30 - 1:50p
  • CSE 5360.001 : TR: 12:30 - 1:50p
• Biography : Vassilis Athitsos received the BS degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1995, the MS degree in computer science from the University of Chicago in 1997, and the PhD degree in computer science from Boston University in 2006. In 2005-2006 he worked as a researcher at Siemens Corporate Research, developing methods for database-guided medical image analysis. In 2006-2007 he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Computer Science department at Boston University. Since August 2007 he is an assistant professor at the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and data mining. His recent work has focused on efficient similarity-based retrieval, gesture recognition, shape modeling and detection, and medical image analysis.