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Invited Speakers

Antonis A. Argyros
University of Crete, Greece
Title: TBA
Bio: Antonis A. Argyros is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Crete and a researcher at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He received a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science (1989) and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (1992), both from the Computer Science Department, University of Crete. On July 1996, he completed his PhD on visual motion analysis at the same Department. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory (CVAP) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 1999, as a member of the Computational Vision and Robotics Laboratory (CVRL) of FORTH-ICS, he has been involved in many RTD projects in computer vision, image analysis and robotics.

Dr. Argyros is an area editor for the Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal (CVIU), member of the Editorial Board of the IET Image Processing Journal and one of the general chairs of the 11th European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV'2010, Heraklion, Crete). He is also a faculty member of the Brain and Mind interdisciplinary graduate program and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)

Georgios Alexandrakis
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
Title:Using Near-Infrared Light to Image how Rehabilitation Strategies Rewire the Brain
Bio: Dr. Georgios Alexandrakis did his undergraduate studies in Physics at Oxford University and his graduate studies in Medical Physics at McMaster University, Canada. After completing graduate work, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School where he worked on quantitative intravital two-photon microscopy techniques for the analysis of barriers to drug delivery in tumor-bearing mice. He then pursued further postdoctoral work at UCLA where he contributed to the development of a combined optical/PET mouse imaging system and was also exposed to clinical multi-modality imaging.
As faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington since 2006, the unifying theme of his research has been the development of novel imaging methods for biomedical applications. In collaboration with faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dr. Alexandrakis currently pursues two major research directions: (i) The development of brain imaging methods using near-infrared light to monitor treatment-mediated brain plasticity in children with cerebral palsy and stroke patients. (ii) The development of high resolution microscopy methods to quantify the intracellular dynamics of proteins involved in the repair of cancer cell DNA after these cells have been exposed to radiation or chemotherapy.