Professor Michael Georgiopoulos

 

Education:
1981: Diploma in Electrical Engineering, National Technical University, Athens, Greece.
1983: Masters in Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
1986: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Professional Experience:
December 2003 - Present: Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
April 2002 - November 2003: Professor, SEECS, University of Central Florida.
1999 - March 2002: Associate Professor, SEECS, University of Central Florida.
1992 - 1999: Associate Professor, ECE Department, University of Central Florida.
1987 - 1992: Assistant Professor, EE Department, University of Central Florida.
1985 - 1986: Research Assistant and Lectures, University of Connecticut.
1981 - 1985: Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Connecticut.

Professional Service:
Senior Member of IEEE and the International Neural Network Society. Serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Reviewer of several journals in the neural network, fuzzy logic, and communication areas. Served as a Technical Program chair of the 1996 SOUTHCON conference. Served as a technical program member, and technical program chair of numerous conferences in the areas of neural networks and communications.

Honors and Awards:
1981: Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut.
1991: Outstanding Researcher of the Year, EE Department, University of Central Florida.
1993: Outstanding Researcher of the Year, EE Department, University of Central Florida.
1995: Teaching Incentive Productivity (TIP) Award, College of Engineering, UCF.
2000: Teaching Incentive Productivity (TIP) Award, College of Engineering, UCF.
2001-2005: Holding the Martin/St. Laurent Professorship in the CECS, UCF.
2002-2003: Distinguished Lecturer of the CECS, UCF.

Synergistic Activities:

• Throughout my career I have actively worked on research areas such as, communication networks, spread spectrum communications, neural networks, and applications of neural networks in pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision, manufacturing, and computer generated forces modeling.
  
  
• I have published 42 papers in journals and over 135 papers in conferences in the areas of neural networks, and communications. I have been principal or co-principal investigator on research grants totaling more than $5.3M. Lockheed Martin, Harris, US Army, US Navy, DMSO, NSF, Lockheed Martin, Harris, and other agencies from the State of Florida have funded my research.
  
  
• In conjunction with other PIs from UCF we have an NSF CRCD (Combined Research and Curriculum Development) grant. The purpose of this grant is to incorporate machine-learning research into the undergraduate curriculum. The awarded amount is $406,000 from NSF and it is matched by UCF with an additional $167,000. Through this grant not only we have introduced new machine learning courses in the undergraduate curriculum but we have are also interacting with undergraduate students, on a regular basis, teaching them how to do research.

Publications Related to this Project:

M. Georgiopoulos, H. Fernlund, G. Bebis, and G. L. Heileman, "Order of search in Fuzzy ART and Fuzzy ARTMAP: Effect of the choice parameter," Neural Networks, Vol. 9, No. 9, 1996, pp. 1541-1559.

A. E. Zooghby, C. G. Christodoulou, and M. Georgiopoulos, "Performance of radial basis function networks for direction of arrival estimation with antenna arrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, pp. 1611-1617, November 1997.

D. Charalampidis, T. Kasparis and M. Georgiopoulos, "Classification of noisy signals using Fuzzy ARTMAP neural networks," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 12, No. 5, September 2001, pp. 1023-1036.

G. C. Anagnostopoulos, and M. Georgiopoulos, "Category Regions as New Geometrical Concepts in Fuzzy ART and Fuzzy ARTMAP" Neural Networks, Vol. 15, No. 10, pp. 1205-1221, December 2002.

M. Georgiopoulos, I. Russell, J. Castro, A. Wu, M. Kysilka, R. DeMara, A. Golanzez, E. Gelenbe, M. Mollaghasemi, "A CRCD Experience: Integrating machine learning modules into introductory engineering and science programming courses," ASEE 2003 Annual Conference and Exposition, Session 2432, June 22-25, Nashville, TN, 2003

Other Publications:

G. Bebis, M. Georgiopoulos, and T. Kasparis, "Coupling weight elimination and genetic algorithms to reduce network size and preserve generalization," Neurocomputing, Vol. 17, No. 3&4, November 1997, pp. 167-194.

G. Bebis, M. Georgiopoulos, M. Shah, and N. da Vitoria Lobo, "Indexing based on algebraic function of views," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 360-378, December 1998.

I. Dagher, M. Georgiopoulos, G. L. Heileman, and G. Bebis, "An ordering algorithm for pattern presentation in Fuzzy ARTMAP that tends to improve generalization performance," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 10, No. 4, July, 1999, pp. 768-778.

A. Koufakou, M. Georgiopoulos, G. Anagnostopoulos, and T. Kasparis, "Cross-Validation in Fuzzy ARTMAP for Large Databases," Neural Networks, Vol. 14, No. 9, 2001, pp. 1279-1291.

S. Verzi, M. Georgiopoulos, G. L. Heileman, and M. Healy, "Rademacher penalization applied to Fuzzy ARTMAP and Boosted ARTMAP," IEEE-INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2001 (IJCNN 2001), Washington DC, July 14-19, 2001, pp. 1191-1196.

Collaborators and Other Affiliations:
(i)Collaborators: Erol Gelenbe (UCF), Avelino Gonzalez (UCF), Ronald DeMara (UCF), Annie Wu (UCF), Mansooreh Mollaghasemi (UCF), Gregory Heileman (University of New Mexico), Ahmed Zooghby (Erricson), Mubarak Shah (UCF), Niels da Vitoria Lobo (UCF), Dimitri Charalampidis (University of New Orleans), Takis Kasparis (UCF), Christos Christodoulou (University of New Mexico).

(ii) Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors: P. Papantoni-Kazakos (University of Alabama), Lazaros Merakos (University of Athens), David Kleinnman (University of Connecticut).

(iii) Thesis Advisor and Post-Graduate Scholar Sponsor: Juxin Huang (Hewlett Packard), George Bebis (University of Nevada Reno), Issam Dagher (University of Balamand), Georgios Anagnostopoulos Florida Technological Institute). Has advised a total of 15 Masters students. Currently advising 3 Ph.D.'s and 2 Masters.