Dr. Vasileios Mezaris is a Senior Researcher with the Information Technologies Institute / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece, since June 2007, and since May 2018 he is a Research Director (Senior Researcher Grade A).

His research interests include multimedia understanding and artificial intelligence; in particular, image and video analysis and annotation, machine learning and deep learning for multimedia understanding and big data analytics, explainable AI and green AI, multimedia indexing and retrieval, and applications of multimedia understanding and artificial intelligence in specific domains (including TV broadcasting and news, education and culture, medical / ecological / business data analysis, security applications). As part of his work in these research areas he has co-authored more than 50 papers in refereed journals, 20 book chapters, 200 papers in international conferences, and 3 patents. He has also edited three books and several proceedings volumes. He serves as Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (2024-present), and also as a reviewer for many international journals and conferences. He has served as Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2020-2025), and as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2012-2015 and 2018-2022) and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2016-2020).

He has participated in many research projects, both as Principal Investigator and as the projects’ Coordinator or Research Manager.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

For more information: http://www.iti.gr/~bmezaris