papadour

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George M. Papadourakis was born in Patras Greece in 1959. He received he B.Sc. degree from the Michigan Technological University in 1978, his Master's degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1981, and his Ph.D. Degree from the University of Florida in 1986, all in Electrical Engineering.

From 1986 until 1988 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. From 1988 until 1992 he was a Visiting Professor  in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Crete in Heraklion, Greece. Since 1990 he has also been a researcher at the Institute of Computer Science-FORTH in Heraklion, Greece. In 1994 he became a Professor in the Computer Science Group of the Science Department at the Technological Education Institute of Heraklion in Greece and during 1999-2002  Head of the Department of Applied Informatics and Multimedia at the TEI of Crete.

Since 2002 is  a professor at the Department of Applied Informatics and Multimedia of the TEI of Crete. In 1995 established and was director of the Neural Networks and Expert Systems Laboratory. His transfer to the Department of Applied Informatics and Multimedia resulted in the formation of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory where he is the director. His current research interests include Intelligent System applications, firmware and software development, telemedicine, Engineering Education, Open Distance Learning and Assessment of Technology to Health Care Systems. He has authored over 24 Journal and 120 International Conference publications. He has coordinated or participated in over  90 National, European and International projects. He has been Conference Chair in 11 International Conferences. He has been a member of several program committees of international Conferences and reviewer of several international conferences, Journals and agencies.  

Currently he is supervising 1 Ph.D. candidate  and 1 Master Thesis.  He has supervised 7 Master Thesis, 1 Ph.D.  dissertation and participated in the  guidance of 4 Ph.D. dissertations. In addition, he participated in 3 Ph.D. examination committees. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Horizontal Action for all TEI Careers Services, 1996 – 2006 and Coordinator of the Career Office of TEI Crete from 2001 to present.  He has been a member of the Research Council of TEI of Crete 1998-2013 and Vice-President 1998 – 2001 and 2010-2013. In 2012 he was elected as an academic member of the newly formed   TEI of Crete Council which is the governing body of the Institution. He is a member of the International Neural Network Society, the European Neural Network Society, Technical Chamber of Greece and the Computer Society of Greece.