Panagiotis Tsakalides

Panagiotis Tsakalides is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete and Head of the Signal Processing Laboratory at FORTH-ICS. His research develops statistical signal processing and machine learning methods with applications in computational imaging, sensor networks, and remote sensing.

He has secured over €15M in research funding through 22 projects, including:

• Horizon Europe TITAN Project (€2.5M): Frugal AI for astrophysics applications
• H2020 PHYSIS Project (€1M): Sparse processing for hyperspectral systems
• FP7 CS-ORION Project (€1.3M): Compressed sensing for aerial surveillance

Research specialties include non-Gaussian signal modeling, compressed sensing architectures, and distributed processing algorithms. Applications span medical imaging, environmental monitoring, and space systems.