Dimitris Anastassiou is an electrical engineer and Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Columbia University School of Engineering.
15 Facts About Dimitris Anastassiou
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Dimitris Anastassiou has made significant advances in the areas of digital technology.
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Dimitris Anastassiou's research resulted in Columbia being the only university to hold patent in MPEG-2 technology, a crucial technique used in all types of digital televisions, DVDs, satellite TV, HDTV, digital cable systems, computer video, and other interactive media.
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Dimitris Anastassiou received his Bachelor of Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.
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Dimitris Anastassiou is the recipient of the Columbia University Great Teacher Award.
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Between 1979 and 1983, Dimitris Anastassiou was a Research Staff member at the IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.
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Dimitris Anastassiou was the former director of Columbia University's Image and Advanced Television Laboratory and director of Columbia University's Genomic Information Systems Laboratory.
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Dimitris Anastassiou came to national prominence when he, with his student Fermi Wang developed the MPEG-2 algorithm for transmitting high quality audio and video over limited bandwidth in the early 1990s.
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Revenue from the patent pool allowed Dimitris Anastassiou to pursue interdisciplinary research in other areas.
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Dimitris Anastassiou refers to his publications in engineering and signal processing as those from a "previous lifetime".
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Dimitris Anastassiou is currently a faculty member of the Center for the Multiscale Analysis of Genomic and Cellular Networks.
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In 2009, Dimitris Anastassiou won an $800,000 award from the National Institute of Health jointly with Maria Karayiorgou of Columbia University Medical Center for a project entitled "Computational discovery of synergistic mechanisms responsible for psychiatric disorders", aiming to discover the biological mechanisms of psychological disorders such as schizophrenia.
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In 2013, Dimitris Anastassiou was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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In 2013, a team led by Dimitris Anastassiou won the Breast Cancer Prognosis Challenge, run by Sage Bionetworks and Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods, which challenged teams to develop models to predict breast cancer survival rates based on a large gene expression and clinical feature dataset.
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Dimitris Anastassiou's team won the challenge despite being smaller and despite competing against teams from companies such as IBM, by taking an approach that was "out-of-the-box" and "completely novel".