Dr Petros Daras is a Principal Researcher Grade A’, at the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH).

He has been working as a Researcher since July 2006 and he has been involved in more than 30 projects, funded by the EC and the Greek Ministry of Research and Technology.

His main research interests include multimedia processing, multimedia & multimodal search engines, 3D reconstruction from multiple sensors, dynamic mesh coding, medical image processing and bioinformatics.

He has co-authored more than 40 papers in refereed journals, 29 book chapters and more than 100 papers in international conferences. He has served as a regular reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences. He was the chair of the IEEE Interest Group (IG) on Image, Video and Mesh Coding (2012-2014) – http://committees.comsoc.org/mmc/IG/IMVIMECIG.asp and key member of the ΙΕΕΕ IG on 3D Rendering, Processing and Communications (2010 – ) –http://committees.comsoc.org/mmc/IG/3DRPCIG.asp. He regularly acts as a reviewer/evaluator for the EC. He is the head of the Visual Computing Lab

He is a Senior Member of IEEE. For more information please visit: http://vcl.iti.gr