Our Team
Our team is composed of scientists, academics, and engineers dedicated to pushing the boundaries of technology in both maritime and medical fields.
Prof. Stergios Stergiopoulos, PhD
Chief Innovation-Technology Officer • Director
Prof. Stergiopoulos received a BSc (Hon.) from the University of Athens in 1976. He earned the MSc in Physics in 1977 and the PhD in Physics in 1982 from York University in Toronto, Canada.
He retired from Defence R&D Canada in February 2020 while serving as Chief Scientist at DRDC Toronto. He has been appointed Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto and at Western University in London, Ontario.
He is the innovator of DRDC’s 3D advanced beamforming technologies for antisubmarine warfare sonar systems. His medical diagnostic work spans non-invasive 3D imaging, including cardiac 3D CT and portable 3D/4D ultrasound, along with vital-signs monitoring such as motion- and noise-tolerant automated blood pressure and intracranial dispersive ultrasound.
Dr. Stergiopoulos raised approximately 16 million dollars through Canadian and European Commission programs. He served as technical manager for numerous European Commission projects with partners including Siemens, Philips, and Fraunhofer Institutes.
He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Prof. Plataniotis received the BEng in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras in Greece. He earned the MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida.
He is a Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he directs the Multimedia Laboratory. He also serves as Director of the Machine Intelligence Major in the Engineering Science Program. He has held the Bell Canada Endowed Chair in Multimedia since 2014.
Prof. Plataniotis is a registered professional engineer in Ontario and a Fellow of the IEEE, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He served as General Chair for IEEE GlobalSIP 2017, IEEE ICIP 2018, and IEEE ICASSP 2021. He has been Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Letters and Guest Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He is currently President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, representing more than twenty-three thousand members.
His research focuses on image and signal processing, machine learning, adaptive learning systems, visual data analysis, human-machine teaming, and autonomous systems.
Dr. Tzelepis works in signal processing and software engineering for ultrasound and maritime sensing systems.
Christos Korgialas, PhD(c)
Senior Software Engineer • Project Manager
Christos received a BSc in Physics from the University of Patras in 2020 and an MSc (Hon.) in Digital Media – Computational Intelligence from the Informatics Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2022. He is currently pursuing a PhD with the Department of Informatics at Aristotle University, in the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Laboratory.
He works as a doctoral researcher on funded projects and has co-authored several journal and conference papers. His interests include multimodal information analysis, multimedia forensics, signal processing, explainable artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
He has served as a reviewer and volunteer at international conferences and co-organized the AEGIS summer school. He was a visiting researcher at the Multimedia Laboratory of the University of Toronto. He is a Graduate Student Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Dr. Hobdari graduated with an MD from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest in 1999. She completed a five-year residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Polizu Women’s Hospital, within the Institute of Mother and Child Care in Bucharest, and is certified as a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology by the Romanian Ministry of Health.
In 2009 she completed a Family Medicine Residency at the University of Western Ontario. She is board-certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and practices in Woodbridge, Ontario. She also serves as a Director and Medical Practice Adviser for INDECEXON Inc. in Toronto.
She is certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology ultrasonography by Carol Davila University and has additional training in abdominal and pelvic ultrasonography at the Michener Institute in Toronto.