Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos has been a faculty member at Northwestern University since 1985, currently serving as the Joseph Cummings Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also the Director of the Motorola Center for Seamless Communications and holds various appointments, including being part of the Academic Affiliate Staff at NorthShore University Health System and affiliated faculty in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern. He obtained his Diploma in electrical and mechanical engineering from Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki in 1979, followed by an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981 and 1985, respectively. His research interests encompass multimedia signal processing, computer vision, machine learning, and more. With an extensive publication record that includes five books, over 210 journal papers, and numerous conference papers and patents, he has supervised 70 M.S. and 46 Ph.D. students. A Fellow of IEEE and SPIE, he has received multiple awards for his contributions to the field and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine for six years.