E. (Litsa) MICHELI-TZANAKOU is Professor II and Director of the Computational Intelligence Laboratories in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers and an adjunct professor of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Till 2000, Dr. Tzanakou was Chair of the Department for 10 years and established the Undergraduate curriculum in the same. She was elected a Founding Fellow of AIMBE in 1993, a Fellow of IEEE (1992) and a Fellow of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine (1986). Her latest book .Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition: Feature Extraction and Computational Intelligence. was published by CRC Press in January 2000. Dr. Tzanakou co-authored a book with S. Deutsch on "Neuroelectric Systems", published by New York University Press, in 1987. She has edited 7 books as Book editor in the Springer/Plenum Press Biomedical Engineering Series and co-edited a book on .Biometrics: Theory and Applications. under IEEE Press. She has published over 280 scientific papers in journals, conference proceedings, book and Encyclopedia chapters.

Her research interests include Biometrics, Neural Networks, Information Processing in the brain, Image and Signal Processing applied to Biomedicine, Mammography, Telemedicine, Hearing Aids and electronic equivalents of neurons. She has graduated over 50 Masters and PhDs and currently supervises 5 graduate students and two postdoctoral fellows.

Dr. Tzanakou has established the first ever, experimental Brain to Computer Interface (BCI), using her ALOPEX algorithm, in 1974. This method is now used for target optimization in Biomedical applications such as Parkinson.s disease, diagnosis of Alzheimer.s progress etc. ALOPEX has also been used in a wide variety of problems: signal processing, image processing, pattern recognition, transportation and many more.

Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou received the BS, degree (in Physics) from the University of Athens, Greece (1969) and the MS and PhD degrees (both in Physics) from Syracuse University, Syracuse NY in 1974 and1977 respectively.

COMMITTEES/BOARDS: IEEE Vice President of Educational Activities, 2008; EAB Chair, 2008; IEEE Strategic Planning Committee, 2008; President (Interim) Biometrics Council, 2008; TAB Strategic Planning Committee member, 2007; EAB Expert Now Committee Member, 2007); Biometrics Certification Committee (2007-2008); BEWG/EAB (2006-2007); IEEE Director, Division X (2005-2006); IEEE Technical Activities Board Chair, Nominations and Appointments Committee, 2006; TAB NTDC Biometrics, Chair (2005-2007); TAB NTDC BCI Chair, (2006-present); IEEE Medal of Honor Committee Chair, (2004-2006); IEEE Awards Board N&A Committee, Chair (2004-2006); IEEE Awards Board Chair (2002 and 2003); IEEE Awards Board Vice-Chair (2000 and 2001);IEEE (AdHoc) Committee to Review Awards, (2002) (appointed by President Findlay); Vice Chair Awards Board of Policy and Planning Committee (1998-1999); Awards Special Events Chair (1999).

SECTIONS/CHAPTERS: Central New Jersey Section Newsletter Editor (1986) and Awards Chair (1985-1989).

STUDENT BRANCHES: Rutgers University Student Branch Counselor (1981-1988)

The branch received several awards for outstanding SPACs and Membership increases. In 1981 there were only 66 members in the branch. In 1988, the membership had gradually reached over 450 members.

SOCIETIES:Biometrics Council Interim/Acting President (2008); Biometrics Committee Chair (2005-2007); CIS Publications Committee (2007-present); CIS Fellows Committee (2007); CIS Multimedia Committee (2006-2007); President, IEEE Neural Networks Society (2003); President Elect, IEEE Neural Networks Society (2002); IEEE Vice President NNC (2000-2001); IEEE Neural Networks Council, Technical Activities Chair (1999);IEEE/IES Educational Committee Chair (1996-1999); IEEE Neural Networks Council, Conferences Committee (1998-1999); IEEE/EMBS AdCom, Publications Committee (1999); IEEE/EMBS AdCom Representative to NNC (1998-1999); IEEE/EMBS Awards Committee (1998-1999); IEEE-USA Activities Board on Biomedical Technology (1995-present); IEEE/EMBS Fellows Committee (1996-1998);IEEE/NNC-IES Representative (1992-1997); IEEE/EMBS AdCom Member at Large (elected position), two terms (1996-1999); IEEE Neural Networks Council, Fellows Committee (1992, 1995, 1996); IEEE IES AdCom (1994-2000);IEEE Council on Neural Networks, Secretary (1990-1991); IEEE Council on Neural Networks, Bylaws Committee Chair (1989-1991); IEEE Ad Hoc Committee on Standards on Neural Networks, Chair (1989-1991); IEEE Committee on Standards, Chair of Paradigms Working Group (1991-1999); IEEE Neural Network Committee, Secretary (1989-1990); IEEE Neural Network Committee, EMBS Representative (1987-1989); IEEE Frontiers in Medical Care (1985).

CONFERENCES: CISIS 2008, Program Committee; Biometrics Consortium, IEEE Liaison to the Biometrics Symposium, (2006 and 2007);International Symposium on Neural Networks, Advisory Committee, (2007) Nanjing, China; Honorary Chair, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI.07), (2007);Steering Committee of Computational Committee for Homeland Security and Personal Safety, (2006);ISEI 5, 5th International Conf. on Ecological Informatics, Santa Barbara, Program Committee, (2006); CIBB.06 Third Int. Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Program Committee (2006); Intern. Conference in Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN.06), International Steering Committee, (2006); IEEE Int. Workshop on Measurement Systems for Homeland Security, Contraband Detection and Personal Safety, (2006); IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, President.s Forum, (2006); CIHSPS. 06 Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety, Steering Committee, (2006); VECIMS.06 International steering committee, (2006);CIMSA.06 International steering committee (2005-2006); IASTED Intern. Assoc of Sci. and Tech., Biomed.05, (2005); International Program Committee, (2005); CIHSPS. 05 Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety, Steering Committee, (2005); CIBB. 05 2nd International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, (2005); ACIDCA-ICMI.05 International Program Committee Member, International Conference on Machine Intelligence, (2005); IJCNN. 04 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Gen Co-Chair, (2004); CIHSPS. 04 Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety, Steering Committee, (2004); IASTED Intern. Assoc of Sci. and Tech., Biomed.04, International Program Committee, (2004); ISEI.04 4th Conf. of the Inter. Society of Ecological Informatics, (2004); 2nd Summer School on Emerging Technologies in Biomedicine, Intern. Scientific Committee, (2004); CIMSA. 04 International Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, General Co-Chair, (2004); BIBE 2004, Taiwan, Steering Committee, (2004); IASTED Intern. Assoc of Sci. and Tech., Biomed.04, Biomed.03, International Program Committee, (2003 ); CIMSA. 03 International Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, General Co-Chair, (2003); CIMSA. 03 International Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, Session Chair: Neural Network Applications, (2003); BIBE 2003, Plenary Speaker and Organizing Committee, (2003); Program Committee, SPIE, Applications and Science of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems and Evolutionary Computation, (2002); General Co-Chair VIMS, IEEE International Symposium on Virtual and Intelligent Measurement Systems, (2002); 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP.02), Program Committee, (2002); ANNIE.02, Conference Committee, (2002); International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Organizing Committee, (2002); IEEE NanoSystems, 2001 Conference Committee, (2001); Non-Linear Signal and Image Processing (NSIP), Program Committee, (2001); IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, Program Committee, (2001); International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Organizing Committee, (2000); IEEE World Congress on Neural Networks, Organizing Committee, 2000; Conference Chair, IEEE ITAB .98 an International Workshop in Information Technology in Biomedical Engineering,1997-1998;Conference Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics,(ISIE .95) ; Organizing Committee of ISIE .97-98; Organizing Committee of ISIE .96 Track of Emerging Technologies (Chair),1995-1996; IEEE/EMBS Annual Conference, International Committee Chair, Nov 1994;IEEE/EMBS Workshop Organizer, Nov 1994; IEEE/EMBS Neural Networks Symposium Organizer Nov 1994;IEEE/EMBS Visualization Session Chair, Nov 1994;IEEE/EMBS Neural Network Track Chair, Nov 1994; IEEE/EMBS Neural Network Track Chair, Nov 1991; IEEE/EMBS Workshop Organizer, Oct 1993; International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, July 1993 ; International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Program Committee and Publicity Co-Chair, Nagoya, Japan, Oct 1993; Publications Chair, 19th IEEE Northeast Bioengineering Conference, March 1993; Program Committee and Invited Speaker- Rostov, Russia,RNNS/IEEE Symposium on Neuro-informatics & Neuro-computers, 1992, 1995; International Biomedical Engineering Days, Symposium Organizer, 1992; Biomedical Applications of Parallel Processing and Artificial Neural Systems and Plenary Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey,1992; IEEE/IES Emerging Technologies Council, Technical Committee on Industrial Applications of Neural Networks, Chair,1992-1998; IEEE/EMBS Workshop Co-Organizer,1991; IEEE/EMBS, Neural Networks Track Chairperson, 1989-1991; 10th, 11th, 12th Ann. International Meetings IEEE/EMBS Chair, IEEE/EMBS Technical Committee on Neural Networks.

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EDITORSHIPS:

Editorial Board, J. Artificial Intelligence Tools: Architectures, Languages, Algorithms. World Scientific, 2004-present; Steering Committee, IEEE Trans. on Computational Biology and Biomedicine (2002-present); Editorial Board, Ecological Informatics, Elsevier, 2004-present; Transactions On Nano-BioScience (2002-2007); Editorial Board Biomedical Engineering On Line (2001-present ); Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2000-2006 and 1989-1992); Book Series Editor in Biomedical Engineering, Springer/Plenum/Klewer (1999-2007); Book Series Editor, Biomedical Systems, IES Book series, CRC Press (1997-2004); Editorial Board, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Information Tech.(1997-2001); Editorial Board, International J. On Advanced Computational Intelligence (1997-2003).

FELLOWSHIPS:

Elected IEEE Fellow in 1992, .For Contributions to the Application of Neural Networks to the Analysis of the Operation of the Visual System., Elected Founding Fellow, American Institute for Medical & Biological Eng. (AIMBE), in 1993 . In Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Medical and Biological Engineering.; Fellow, Douglass College; member of Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu .In Recognition of Excellent scholarships..., Listed in American Men and Women in Science .For Outstanding Contributions in the Physical and Biological Sciences., Honorary Member of the British Brain Research Association, Honorary Member of the European Brain and Behavior Society.

AWARDS:

• Meritorious Service Award, IEEE-CIS, 2006
• NJ Women of Achievement Award, 1995, .For Outstanding Contributions to Biomedical Engineering.
• Featured in the "Notable Twentieth Century Scientists," 1994 pp. 1320-1321
• Achievement Award, Society of Women Engineers, 1992, .For Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding and Modeling of the Visual System with Neural Networks.
• Outstanding IEEE Branch Advisor/Counselor Award, 1985 .In Recognition of Outstanding Contributions as Student Branch Counselor.
• Cited as a Pioneer in the IEEE Web page (http://www.ieee.org/innovators)

PAPER PRIZES:

• Micheli-Tzanakou, E. and Iezzi, R, "Multi-unit Recordings Analyzed by Stroke Density Calculations," 38th ACEMB (1985), First Prize
• Micheli-Tzanakou, E. and Gaertner, J., "Quantitative and objective measures on Screen Analysis, HICSS-18 on Systems Sciences, III, 154-159 (1985), (One of the BEST seven papers in the Hawaiian International conference on Systems Science)
• Ciaccio, E. and Micheli-Tzanakou, E.: "A Least Squares Algorithm with one phase weight for adaptive cancellation of noise from Biomedical Signals", 18th Northeast Bioeng. Conf. March 12-13, 43-44, (1992). (First Prize Award )
• Wojnicki, P., Uyeda, E. and Micheli-Tzanakou, E. .Quantifying the Effect of Colorization On Mammogram Images. SPIE Proc. SPIE Vol. 4686, p. 290-299, Medical Imaging 2002: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, Dev P. Chakraborty; Elizabeth A. Krupinski; Eds. (2nd Place Prize) 2002.