Dr. Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos (BS ’78 NTUA Greece, MS ’81 & PhD ’83 SUNYAB USA) is the Director of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications at National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos,” Director of Research and Head of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (ISL). He has served as faculty of Electrical Engineering at Penn State and Southern Illinois Universities. Founder of Intelnet Inc. in USA, he is credited with over 250 publications, over 2500 citations, and the US Patent No. 5,978,495 for the design and implementation of a fingerprint recognition system. He participated in numerous US, EU and nationally funded projects and as a premier consultant and advisor to the US Air Force Predetection Fusion Program.
He has led or participated in over 47 research projects, totalling over 124 million Euro in total funding from European, Greece and USA, including the FP7 flagship projects OPTITRANS and PERSEUS. He has been consulting for the government and private industry in the US, France and Greece. His Generalized Evidence Processing (GEP) theory has been cited in all three most recent books on Data Fusion and his Sensor Fusion theory as one of the fundamental theories in sensor networks by the NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology Wireless Communication technologies group, http://w3.antd.nist.gov/wctg/smartsensors/sensornetworks.html). He is currently in the process of establishing ClaRET, a spin off company from NSCR Demokritos.