Sos S. AgaianView profile
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Sos S. Agaian is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Previously, he was the Peter T. Flawn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), where he also served in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and led the Multimedia and Mobile Signal Processing Laboratory. He has held visiting positions at Tufts University and Tampere Institute of Technology and was a Leading Scientist at AWARE, Inc., Massachusetts. Dr. Agaian holds a PhD in Mathematics and Physics from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, a Doctor of Engineering Sciences from the Institute of Control Systems, RAS, and an MS in Mathematics and Mechanics (summa cum laude) from Yerevan State University, Armenia. His research spans Big and Small Data Analytics, Computational Vision, Machine Learning, Digital Forensics, Information Fusion, and Fast Algorithms . His work emphasizes extracting meaning from visual content and developing intelligent systems for applications in healthcare, biomedical data mining, multimedia security, and urban computing. He has contributed foundational theories such as Agaian's Theorem , Agaian's Family , Agaian's Method , and Agaian’s Matrix , which are widely recognized in signal processing and combinatorics. His publications include over 650 peer-reviewed papers, ten books, and nineteen edited proceedings. His research has been cited extensively, reflecting broad impact across engineering and computer science. Trends in his recent work focus on real-time data analytics, neurocomputing, and secure multimedia systems, particularly in defense and medical imaging. SPIE Fellow (2005) AAAS Fellow (2010) IS&T Fellow (2013) IEEE Fellow (2017) Entrepreneurship Award (UTSA, 2016, 2013) Innovator of the Year (UTSA, 2014) Tech Flash Titans - Top Researcher (2014) Distinguished Research Award (UTSA, 2006) Dr. Agaian has mentored over 30 PhD and 60 Master’s students, many of whom now work at top institutions and companies including Intel, Raytheon, MIT-LL, Siemens, and Cisco. He has secured over $7 million in research funding from NSF, DARPA, U.S. Army, DOE, and AFOSR. He co-founded BA Logix, Inc. and the Center for Simulation, Visualization, and Real Time Prediction at UTSA, which received a $5M NSF grant. He holds over 44 U.S. and international patents, several of which are licensed commercially, including to Latakoo for use in media transmission (e.g., NBC’s Sochi Olympics coverage). He leads the Computational Vision, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics (CSMAD) Laboratory , which focuses on real-time intelligent systems, multimodal biometrics, cancer imaging, and urban computing. The lab trains students in cutting-edge research and collaborates with industry and government sponsors.
