Theodoros N. Arvanitis
RT, DPhil, CEng, MIEE, MIEEE, FSIM
Curriculum Vitae
Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT, United Kingdom
tel: +44 (0)121 414 4288
fax: +44 (0)121 414 4292
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Personal Information
Birth and Civil/Marital Status
Place of Birth: Athens, Attiki, Greece
Date of Birth: 17th of November 1968
Nationality: British - Greek (dual)
Civil Status: British Citizen
Marital Status: Married – 1 child
Professional Qualifications
· Medical Radiologic Technologist (RT)
· Biomedical Engineer
· Charted Engineer (IEE)
Miscellaneous Information
Languages (other than Greek):
· Fluent in spoken and written English.
· Fluent in spoken and written French.
· Reasonably fluent in reading Dutch (Flemish)
Holder of a clean EU driving licence for 17 years
Military Service at the Royal Naval Reserve, UK (2001-2002)
Education - Degrees
Ptychion (B.Sc. equivalent): Studied and qualified as a Medical Radiologic Technologist (1986 -- 1990) at the Technological Educational Institution in Athens (T.E.I Athens), School of Health and Welfare Professions, Department of Medical Radiologic Technologists. Graduated in 1990 with Ptychion Grade "Excellent'' (9,05 out of 10).
Ptychion Thesis: "Quality Assurance of the Radiographic Image'' awarded the grade "Excellent'' (10 out of 10).
DPhil (PhD): Studied and Qualified for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) -- (1990-1994) at the University of Sussex, School of Engineering, Graduate Division of Biomedical Engineering.
DPhil Thesis: "A Study of Respiratory Motion Artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy".
Graduated during the Summer 1997 Sussex University Graduation Ceremony.
Education - Scholarships
IKY Scholarship:
Awarded a scholarship by the National Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y), covering all the semesters of his undergraduate studies.
EU COMETT Grant:
Awarded a EU Mobility Grant (EEC Project COMETT) for his final practical work during his undergraduate studies. He followed practical training at the University Hospital of Antwerp for six months (from 02/04/90 to 28/9/90). During that period he worked on a Research Project concerning Quality Control (Subject: Reject Analysis - A pilot programme for image quality management.). The results of this project are published at the European Journal of Radiology. This programme is now part of the Quality Control Scheme, routinely applied in the above-mentioned Department.
Onassis Foundation Research Grant:
Awarded a Research Grant by the "Alexander S. Onassis'' Public Benefit Foundation, for the completion of his DPhil studies between 1991 to 1994.
Continuing Education
Professional Course Certificate (1987):
Awarded by the Central Training Centre of Agfa-Gevaert N.V. Mortsel -- Belgium. Course Title: Image Quality and the Diagnostic Imaging Systems.
Professional Course Certificate (1988):
Awarded by the Central Training Centre of Agfa-Gevaert N.V. Mortsel -- Belgium. Course Title: Management and Quality Control of the Radiographic Image.
ERASMUS MRI Course Certificate (1990):
Awarded by the University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). This course was taught in the context of the Erasmus Course on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (EMRI) organised as part of the European Community Scheme for Cooperation and Mobility in Higher Education. Course Title: Basic MRI Physics.
Accredited Conference Courses:
Various accredited courses in numerous conferences, since 1988 (available on request).
Other:
Additional voluntary studies and practical clinical training in Greece/Belgium during the period 1987 -- 1990 (full details available on request).
Employment
April 2003 – today:
Senior Lecturer (Distributed & Complex Adaptive Systems) in the Department of Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Birmingham. His duties involve teaching, research and related academic administration for the Communications & Interactive Systems Research Centre (50%) and Biomedical Engineering Research Centre (50%). Member of the Distributed Systems and Human Interface Technology Research Groups.
April 1998 – April 2002:
Lecturer in the Department Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Birmingham. His duties involve teaching, research and related academic administration for the Communications and Interactive Systems Research Centre.
Member of Kodak/Royal Academy of Engineering Education Technology Group (1998-2002)
October 1995 - March 1998:
Lecturer in Software Design at the University of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences. T Arvanitis' duties involved teaching, research and related academic administration for the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Subject Group.
January 1995 - October 1995:
Research Fellow at the University of Sussex:
· During this period he had a fixed term, half time appointment as a Fellow and Laboratory Manager in the Trafford Centre for Medical Research from 16th January 1995 to 30th of September 1995. His duties at this post involved:
o Research work in Medical Imaging and related subjects, funded by the Dunhill Medical Trust (Project Director: Dr. L. G. Ripley, Graduate Division of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering)
o Management of the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory. This laboratory belongs to the Graduate Division of Biomedical Engineering, which is part of the Trafford Centre.
o Supervision for several research projects of the Division that run in collaboration with local Hospitals and Health Authorities.
o Organization of the Biomedical Engineering Seminars and administration of the WWW Page for the Division.
· During the same period he had a fixed term, half time appointment as a Research Fellow in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences from 16th January 1995 to 30th of September 1995. He was working on a research project, entitled "Time series analysis of magnetic resonance data" funded by the Research Development Fund of the University of Sussex (Project Director: Dr. D. Watson, COGS). This research work was done in collaboration with the Robert Steiner MRI Unit, Hammersmith Hospital at London and local MRI Units.
Academic Honorary Posts:
Theodoros N. Arvanitis had the following associate/honorary faculty posts:
· Honorary Clinical Scientist, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Physics, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton Health Care NHS Trust (1996 -- 1998).
· Associate Faculty Member, The Graduate Division of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Sussex (1995 -- 1998).
· Associate Faculty Member, The Trafford Centre for Graduate Medical Education and Research, University of Sussex (1995 -- 1998).
Research
Areas of Interest
Medical Imaging and Informatics, Intelligent Agents & Complex Adaptive Systems, Networks and Distributed Systems
Research Grants and Contracts
(As principal investigator or co-investigator)
Description / From / To / Funding Body / Amount (£)1. T N Arvanitis
Project Title: Diagnostic X-Rays, Imaging Techniques and Other Related Technologies / Jan 1996 / Jul 1996 / EU Parliament/STOA / 21,500
2. C Baber, T N Arvanitis
Project Title: Study of the Sensitivity of the System Design of UAV to Formal HSI Techniques [Contract CU010-205] / Aug 1999 / Jan 2000 / DERA / 28,615
Research Grants and Contracts (cont.)
Description / From / To / Funding Body / Amount (£)
3. A Livingston, S I Woolley,
T N Arvanitis, T R Davis
Project Title: Analysis of cuneiform tablets using forensic techniques and digital imaging / Jan 1999 / Jan 2001 / IRF Birmingham / 16,838
4. C C Constantinou, T N Arvanitis
Project Title: Measurement of Multipaths in Physical Radio Channels [Contract ML845387] / Aug 2000 / Jan 2001 / British Telecommunications Plc / 9,100
5. C C Constantinou, T N Arvanitis
Project Title: Towards a Theoretical framework For Planning Future Convergent Networks [Contract P/O SGB-127148] / Sep 2000 / Dec 2001 / Nortel Networks Plc / 40,000
6. T N Arvanitis, C C Constantinou
Project Title: Intelligent Portable Camera Network Node [Project Code RUKI07736] / Nov 2000 / Nov 2003 / Kodak Ltd. / 55,200
7. C C Constantinou, T N Arvanitis
Project Title: Optimal Allocation of Radio Resources for Generic Air Interfaces [Contract ML857931/CT507245] / Nov 2000 / Nov 2003 / British Telecommunications Plc / 60,000
8. C Baber, T N Arvanitis, M Sharples
Project Title: Lab of Tomorrow [Contract IST-2000-25076] / Apr 2001 / Mar 2004 / CEC FP5/IST / 192,408
9. M Sharples, C Baber, T N Arvanitis
Project Title: MOBILearn [Contract IST-2001-37187] / Apr 2002 / Mar 2005 / CEC FP5/IST / 283,664
10. T N Arvanitis
Project Title: Performance Evaluation and Pricing of Differentiated Services for the Internet [Contract GR/R18536/01] / Jun 2002 / Oct 2004 / EPSRC / 62,780
11. A Livingstone, T R Davis,
T N Arvanitis, S I Woolley
Project Title: A Study of Cuneiform Sign at the Graphemic, Allographic and Graphetic Levels [Contract F/00094/Y] / Oct 2002 / Oct 2007 / The Leverhulme Trust / 155,738
12. T N Arvanitis
Project Title: e-Health & Learning (e-HL) [Project Code: RAEB09481] / Mar 2003 / Jun 2004 / CEC/EU&ASIA ICT / 51,432
Research Grants and Contracts (cont.)
Description / From / To / Funding Body / Amount (£)
13. C Baber, T N Arvanitis
Project Title: Defence Technology Centre in Human Factors Integration (fixed price contract) / Mar
2003 / Mar
2006 / MoD/DSTL / 600,000
14. T N Arvanitis / Oct / Mar / Wellcome Trust / 10,000
Project Title: VIP Award in Bioinformatics [Project Code: RCHX09983] / 2003 / 2004
15. T N Arvanitis, C Baber, R Stone / Feb / Feb / CEC/IST-FP6 / 194,000
Project Title: CONNECT [Contract: 507844] / 2004 / 2007
Additional involvement in Funding
Also named as co-investigator at the following ROPA (awarded individually to Dr C C Constantinou): C C Constantinou, Oct 2002-Oct 2004, EPSRC, £108,013, Project Title: A Thermodynamic Model Quantifying The Congestion Phase Transition in Packet-Switched Networks
Research Fellows/Associates:
§ Miss Evangelia Chryssafidou – Research Associate (March 2003 – June 2004 at Birmingham) – e-Health & Learning
§ Dr Peter Longsdale - Research Fellow (November 2002- September 2005 at Birmingham) – MOBILearn
§ Miss Giasemi Vavoula - Research Fellow (December 2002 - September 2005 at Birmingham) – MOBILearn
§ Mr James Knight - Research Fellow (October 2001 – August 2004 at Birmingham) – Lab of Tomorrow
§ Mr Phil Glew – Research Associate (September 2002 - March 2003 at Birmingham) – MOBILearn
§ Dr Alexander Stepanenko- Research Fellow (September 2000 – January 2002, September 2002-September 2004 at Birmingham)
§ Dr Junaid Munghal – Research Fellow (August 2000 – February 2001)
§ Dr Georgios Tsibidis - Research Fellow (September 1999 - March 2000 at Birmingham)
§ Miss Elizabeth Longmate - Research Associate (September 1999 - March 2000 at Birmingham)
§ Mr Hue Gibson - Research Associate (September 1999 - March 2000 at Birmingham)
§ Mr Eiji Orihashi - Research Associate (September 1998 - April 1999 at Birmingham)
§ Miss Ekaterini Antonopoulou - Honorary Research Fellow (January 1997 - September 1997 at Sussex)
§ Mr Clive Baldock - Honorary Research Fellow (September 1996 - December 1997 at Sussex)
§ Currently 12 PhD Students (5 full, 7 shared)
Other:
A list of invitations on visits to various academic and commercial institutions and public lectures is available on request.
Publications
Books
T. N. Arvanitis (ed.), The Internet in Medicine, Excerpta Medica, International Congress Series 1138, The Netherlands, 1997. (CD-ROM based)
Publications in Refereed Journals
(Including full papers, short papers and abstracts, editorials)
1. J.F. Knight, A. Schwirtz, F. Psomadelis, C. Baber, H.W. Bristow, T.N.Arvanitis, The Design of the SensVest, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2004 (in press).
2. E. Chryssafidou, T. N. Arvanitis, K.S. Khan, A. Coomarasamy, South Asian health: what is to be done? Skills of evidence based medicine need to be taught, British Medical Journal 328:839, 2004.
3. E. Murelli, T.N.Arvanitis, e-Health & Learning: The Bangladesh experience, Technology and Healthcare, 11(5): 341 – 344, 2003.
4. L. Ji, T. N. Arvanitis, S. I. Wooley, Fair Weighted Round Robin Scheduling Scheme for DiffServ Networks, Electronics Letters, 39(3): 333-335, 2003
5. C.L. Moody, C. Baber, T. N. Arvanitis, M. Elliott, Objective Metrics for the Evaluation of Simple Surgical Skills in Real and Virtual Domains, Presence, 12(2):207-221, 2003
6. T. N. Arvanitis, G. Da Bormida, P. Lefrere, G. Bo, MOBIlearn: exploring new ways to use mobile environments and devices to access basic medical knowledge, Technology and Healthcare, 10(6): 446-448, 2002.
7. T. N. Arvanitis, T. Davis, A. Livingstone, J. Pinilla-Dutoit, S. I. Woolley, The Digital Classification of Ancient near Eastern Cuneiform Data, In Virtual Archaeology, F. Niccolucci (Ed.) BAR International Series, 1075: 65-70, 2002.
8. S. I. Woolley, T. R. Davis, N. J. Flowers, J. Pinilla-Dutoit, A. Livingstone, T. N. Arvanitis, Communicating Cuneiform: The Evolution of a Multimedia Cuneiform Database, Visible Language, 36(3): 308-324, 2002.
9. A. Stepanenko, C. C. Constantinou, T. N. Arvanitis and K. Baughan, Statistical Properties of Core Network Internet Traffic, Electronics Letters, 39(7): 350-351, 2002.
10. J. Oh, S. I. Woolley, T. N. Arvanitis, J. N. Townend, A Multi-stage Perceptual Quality Assessment for Compressed Digital Angiogram Images, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 20(12): 1352-1361, 2001.
11. T. N. Arvanitis and S-L. Cheng, Medical Image Transmission and Manipulation over Wireless Packet-Switched Networks: Session Initiation Protocol Technology Support for DICOM. Technology and Healthcare, 9(6): 538 – 539, 2001.
12. T. N. Arvanitis and J. Ryan, Critical Incident Monitoring in Emergency Medicine Web-based System (CRIME-base): Current evidence on incident reporting and its impact to quality of care, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 1(Suppl 1): e31, 1999.
13. N. J. G. Brown and T. N. Arvanitis, A Strategy for Recording and Presentation of Medical Images in Radiological Multimedia Reports, British Journal of Radiology, 71 (Suppl.): 15, 1999.
14. A. Papadaki, J. De Wilde, T. N. Arvanitis, S. Collins, D. Watson, and R. I. Kitney, Evaluation of Respiratory Motion Correction Techniques in MRI, British Journal of Radiology, 71 (Suppl.): 108, 1998.
15. J. Ryan, P. Killner, T. N. Arvanitis, Developing an Internet-based interactive emergency medicine textbook, European Journal of Emergency Medicine, 5(1): 164, 1998.
16. J. Ryan, G. Bryant, and T. N. Arvanitis, The CRIME Study - Critical incident monitoring in emergency medicine on the Internet, The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 16(6): 956, 1998.
17. T. N. Arvanitis, The Internet in Medicine, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 47: 1-3, 1997
18. Farias and T. N. Arvanitis, Building software agents for training systems: a case study on radiotherapy treatment planning, Knowledge-Based Systems, 10: 161-168, 1997.