Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis

Director, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Engineering (ECE, SE, BME), Founding Member and Faculty (CDS)

Yannis Paschalidis is the Director of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.

He is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering of the Boston University College of Engineering, with joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Division of 系统工程, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is also a Founding Faculty of Computing &  Data Sciences. He is the former Director of the Center for Information and 系统工程 (CISE).

He obtained a Diploma (1991) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has been at Boston University since 1996. His current research interests lie in the fields of systems and control, optimization, machine learning, networks, computational biology, and computational medicine. He is the author of a monograph and more than 230 refereed publications in these topics. He has also been the primary advisor to 27 Ph.D. dissertations.