Nicolas D. Georganas

Nicolas D. Georganas - University of Ottawa (CANADA)

Nicolas D. Georganas received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and earned his Ph D Summa cum Laude in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada.

He was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he later was Chair until 1984. He was appointed Founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Associate Vice-President for Research, and held a Canada Research Chair in Information Technology. On sabbatical leaves he lectured at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, and the University of Vienna, Austria, as well as in various research centers such as the IBM Research Center, La Gaude, France, or Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa, Canada.

Dr. Georganas holds Honorary Doctorates from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and the University of Darmstadt, Germany. He was Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP) and Secretary of the Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada.

His research work was recognized by prestigious awards such as the IEEE Canada Computer Medal, the Canadian Award in Telecommunications Research, the Pioneer of Computing in Canada Award and the Killam Prize, among others.

Professor Georganas passed away on 27 July, 2010.

RESEARCH STAY AT UC3M: TELEMATIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

PROJECT: Provide comments to the Strategic Plan of IMDEA Networks. Draft Policy for Technology Transfer and  Commercialization for IMDEA Networks..

STAY PERIOD: SEP 08 - AUG 09

Publications

1. N. Sakr, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, E.M. Petriu. "Multimodal Vision-Haptic Perception of Digital Watermarks Embedded in 3D Meshes". IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 59, No. 5. Mayo 2010
2. N. Sakr, J. Zhou, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao, E.M. Petriu. "Network Traffic Reduction in Six Degree-of-Freedom Haptic Telementoring Systems" 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2009), pp. 2525-2530, 11-14 Octubre, 2009, (San Antonio, Texas, EE.UU.)
3. N. Sakr, F.A. Alsulaiman, J.J. Valdés, A. El Saddik, N.D. Georganas. "Relevant Feature Selection and Generation in High Dimensional Haptic-based Biometric Data". The 5th International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'09) (CSREA Press). 13-16 Julio, 2009, (Las Vegas, Nevada, EE.UU.)
4. F.A. Alsulaiman, N. Sakr, J.J. Valdés, A. El Saddik, N.D. Georganas. "Feature Selection and Classification in Genetic Programming: Application to Haptic-based Biometric data". IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications 2009 (CISDA 2009). 8-10 Julio, 2009, (Ottawa, Canadá)
5. N. Sakr, N.D. Georganas, J. Zhao. "Perceptibility of Digital Watermarks Embedded in 3D Meshes using Unimodal and Bimodal Hapto-Visual Interaction". IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference 2009 (I2MTC 2009). 5-7 Mayo, 2009, (Singapur)
6. J. Zhou, F. Malric, E.M. Petriu, N.D. Georganas. "Compensating Device Inertia for 6-DOF Haptic Rendering". 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2009), pp. 12-17. 11-14 Octubre, 2009, (San Antonio, Texas, EE.UU.)
7. Q. Chen, F. Malric, Y. Zhang, M. Abid, A. Cordeiro, E.M. Petriu, N.D. Georganas. "Interacting with Digital Signage Using Hand Gestures". ICIAR 2009, LNCS 5627, pp. 347-358, Julio, 2009, (Halifax, Canadá)