{"id":80,"date":"2023-04-25T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/?post_type=personnel&#038;p=80"},"modified":"2023-05-07T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T11:04:56","slug":"george-tzagkarakis","status":"publish","type":"personnel","link":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/personnel\/george-tzagkarakis\/","title":{"rendered":"George Tzagkarakis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>George Tzagkarakis received the PhD and MSc degrees (1st in class, Highest Honors) from the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csd.uoc.gr%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNGx9ukvAR6uyrp_zQoAeje84bGy2A\" target=\"_blank\">Computer Science Department<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uoc.gr%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNH6iRW8hiSS2_XYyBBYYe4A7ISQyA\" target=\"_blank\">University of Crete<\/a>\u00a0(UOC), Greece, in 2009 and 2004, respectively, and the BSc degree in Mathematics from the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.math.uoc.gr%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNGanfoxGycTz02PkH1NCBOXAghV3Q\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Mathematics<\/a>, University of Crete, in 2002 (1st in class, Highest Honors). A number of academic distinctions have been awarded to him both as an undergraduate and a post-graduate student from UOC, the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ics.forth.gr%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNFLRB7zmPn-LstN0VLc9za3BPF2qg\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Computer Science<\/a>\u00a0(ICS) of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forth.gr%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNFR3PLB9jLbleQYk4zcVXh_xZCyZA\" target=\"_blank\">Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas<\/a>\u00a0(FORTH), as well as from external state foundations.Is a Principal Researcherin\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ics.forth.gr%2Fspl%2Findex_main.php%3Fl%3De%26c%3D619&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNH8IB9f9Yk3wzwwfSigG8ZNpkbwMQ\" target=\"_blank\">Signal Processing Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0(SPL) at FORTH-ICSsince May 2018. Since 2000, he has been collaborating with the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iacm.forth.gr%2Findex_main.php%3Fl%3Den%26group%3D1%26page%3Dabout&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNFDF05uYt7FjMMVdSmgooBDvgo4yA\" target=\"_blank\">Wave Propagation Group<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iacm.forth.gr%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNGKgIyFpd4RCpPzy45hAlsZo9Sxpw\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics<\/a>\u00a0(IACM) of FORTH, while in the period 2002-2010 he was affiliated as a research assistant in the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ics.forth.gr%2Ftnl%2Findex_main.php%3Fl%3De%26c%3D275&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNE1QsWr_4RnT6KA3tJQHplcuUUvvA\" target=\"_blank\">Telecommunications and Networks Lab<\/a>\u00a0at FORTH-ICS.Between November 2010 and November 2012 he joined\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-centre-saclay.cea.fr%2Fen%2FCEA-Saclay2&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNHBu64zxw08edQZRE47wReZ1aMyPg\" target=\"_blank\">CEA\/Saclay<\/a>\u00a0as a Marie Curie post-doctoral researcher in the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cosmostat.org%2FCosmoStat.html&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNELYqbZ3-RHCqikXRPyyM1eHEXq4g\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmology and Statistics Laboratory<\/a>, working on the design and implementation of compressive sensing algorithms for remote imaging in areal and terrestrial surveillance systems.In 2012, he got a research position in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eonosit.com%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNEnAlns8qS6tLWs0_AlcU3Wta5Ypg\" target=\"_blank\">EONOS Investment Technologies<\/a>, where he now serves as the company&#8217;s Scientific Director being responsible for developing and managing scientific research projects strategically aligned with the state-of-the-art in quantitative analysis, econometrics, and computational finance using advanced signal and data processing methodologies.His main expertise and research interests lie in the fields of statistical signal<em>\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0<\/em>image processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Tzagkarakis received the PhD and MSc degrees (1st in class, Highest Honors) from the\u00a0Computer Science Department\u00a0at the\u00a0University of Crete\u00a0(UOC), Greece, in 2009 and 2004, respectively, and the BSc degree in Mathematics from the\u00a0Department of Mathematics, University of Crete, in 2002 (1st in class, Highest Honors). A number of academic distinctions have been awarded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-80","personnel","type-personnel","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnel\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnel"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/personnel"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnel\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26484,"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnel\/80\/revisions\/26484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}