Office 1: Informatics and Telematics Institute
1, Kyvernidou Street, Thessaloniki, GR-54639 Greece
Tel: +30-31-868324, 868785, 868580, internal 214

Office 2: Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Thessaloniki, GR 54006 Greece

Tel: +30-31-996351 (direct)
Tel: +30-31-996349, 996396 (secretary)
Tel: +30-31-996359, 869554 (labs)
Fax: +30-31-996342, 996398
e-mail: strintzi@vergina.eng.auth.gr

Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., USA, 1970

Major Subject: System Theory, Minor Subject: Mathematics Dissertation: "Optimal Synthesis of Systems with Unknown or Uncertain Parameters"
Advisor: Professor Bede Liu

• M.A. Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., USA, 1969

• Diploma Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 1967

 

Professional Career

• Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1980-present
• Visiting Professor, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, 1987-1988
• Tenured Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 1976-1980
• Visiting Professor, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 1978-1979
• Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 1970-1975
• Major Consulting Experience with the Aluminum Co. of America (ALCOA), the Contraves-Goerz Corp., and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Other Professional/Scientific Activities

• Member of the Greek National Research Council, 1994-present
• Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on 3D and stereo vision, and of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology on 3D Imaging and stereo and multiview video coding, 1999
• Member of the RACE/ACTS Management Committee 1994-1999
• Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1981-1982 and 1987-1989
• Member of the Greek National Council of Higher Education, 1983-1987
• Representative of Greece at the OECD Committee on University- Industry Cooperation, 1983-1985
• One of the four Greek scientists, and 1984 scientists worldwide, awarded the IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984
• General Director of Higher Education, Greek Ministry of Education, 1982-1983
• Member of Faculty Elector Panels for the newly established University of Crete and the Crete Technical University, 1979
• Elected best Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh by its undergraduate students, 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978
• University of Pittsburgh HKN chapter candidate for the annual HKN outstanding U.S. Young Electrical Engineering Educator award, 1975, 1977 and 1978 - among the four finalists in the U.S. for this award in 1978
• Referee (reviewer) for the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Trans. on Computers, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, CVGIP: Image Understanding, and Mathematical Reviews
• Referee of Research Proposals submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology, and the European Commission
• Associate Editor in the area of Computer Engineering of "Technika Chronika", Scientific Journal of the Technical Chamber of Greece
• Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences

Involvement in R & D projects

Research interests

• Two- and three- Dimensional Image Processing, Coding, Compression and Communication
• Stereo TV and HDTV
• Medical Image Processing and Communication
• Fast Internet: ISDN, ADSL, HFC
• Biomedical Signals and Systems
• Detection, Estimation and Classification Algorithms
• Flexible and Distance Learning Technology

Publications