Faculty Profile for Dr. Vangelis Metsis

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Dr. Vangelis Metsis
Associate Professor — Computer Science
CMAL 211
phone: (512) 245-7509
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Dr. Vangelis Metsis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 2005, from the Department of Informatics of Athens University of Economics and Business in Greece, and his Doctoral degree in 2011 from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of The University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Metsis research interests span the areas of Machine Learning, Data Mining and Computer Vision with special focus on applications of Smart Health & Wellbeing, and Pervasive Computing. He has received federal support and has a strong publication record in related research areas, such as human activity and behavior analysis, human-computer interaction and motion tracking using sensors, sleep monitoring, and human biosignal analysis.

Teaching Interests

 Primary Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction, Algorithms & Data Structures, Object Oriented Programming.
Secondary Interests: Discrete Mathematics, Databases, Introductory Computer Science and Programming courses.

Research Interests

 Primary Interests: Machine Learning and Computer Vision with applications in Smart Health and Human-Computer Interaction.
Secondary Interests: Analysis of human Physiological and Behavioral data, Virtual Reality, Affective Computing, Pervasive Computing, Computational Biology.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Mauldin, T. R., Ngu, A. H. H., Metsis, V., & Canby, M. (2020). Ensemble Deep Learning on Wearables Using Small Datasets. ACM Transactions on Computing for HealthCare, 2. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3428666
  • De, B. K., Sakevych, M., & Metsis, V. (2024). The Impact of Data Augmentation on Time Series Classification Models: An In-Depth Study with Biomedical Data. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-66538-7_20
  • Katrompas, A., & Metsis, V. (2024). Many-to-Many Prediction for Effective Modeling of Frequent Label Transitions in Time Series. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (pp. 265–272). https://doi.org/10.1145/3652037.3652049
  • Irani, H., & Metsis, V. (2024). Enhancing Time-Series Prediction with Temporal Context Modeling: A Bayesian and Deep Learning Synergy. In The 37th International FLAIRS Conference. https://doi.org/10.32473/flairs.37.1.135583
  • Li, X., Sakevych, M., Atkinson, G., & Metsis, V. (2024). Biodiffusion: A versatile diffusion model for biomedical signal synthesis. Bioengineering, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11040299

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National Honor Society. November 20, 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: NSF Advancing Health Through Science Workshop - Aspiring PI Travel Award, National Science Foundation. January 6, 2020 - January 7, 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: College of Science and Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, Texas State University - College of Science and Engineering (CoSE). 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: PETRA Conference, NSF Student Travel Award, NSF. May 1, 2008 - June 30, 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honored talk at the B.Sc. graduation ceremony, Athens University of Economics and Business. November 11, 2005

Selected Grants

  • Metsis, Vangelis (Principal), Castro-Arellano, Ivan (Co-Principal), Veech, Joseph A (Co-Principal). Research Enhancement Grant - BioStream: Developing infrastructure for AI-driven wildlife video monitoring, Texas State University, $16000. (Funded: February 2025 - May 2026). Grant.
  • Clary, Kelly Lynn (Principal), Morley, Richard H (Co-Principal), Metsis, Vangelis (Co-Principal), Trujillo, Logan Thomas (Co-Principal), Smith, Kenneth Scott (Co-Principal), Goffnett, Jacob (Co-Principal), Gagnon, Oscar (Co-Principal). Exploring Psychophysiological and Perceived Health-Related Behaviors During and After Gender Affirming and Non-Affirming Language Among Transgender People Within a Virtual Reality Setting, Multidisciplinary Internal Research Grant Program (MIRG), Texas State University, $28110. (Submitted: January 30, 2021, Funded: May 15, 2021 - May 15, 2022). Grant.
  • Morley, Richard H (Principal), Smith, Kenneth Scott (Co-Principal), Metsis, Vangelis (Co-Principal), Trujillo, Logan Thomas (Co-Principal), Fulton, Cheryl Lisa (Co-Principal), Jantz, Paul B (Co-Principal), Bowman, Scott W (Co-Principal), Roche, Sean Patrick (Co-Principal). Exploring the intersection of mindfulness, stress, large-scale brain networks, bias, threat perception failure, and the decision to use deadly force using virtual reality, Texas State University, $16000. (Submitted: October 30, 2019, Funded: November 9, 2019 - Present). Grant.
  • Metsis, Vangelis (Principal), Castro-Arellano, Ivan (Co-Principal), Veech, Joseph A (Co-Principal). BioStream: Developing Infrastructure for AI-Driven Wildlife Video Monitoring, TXST REP, Texas State University, $16000. (Funded: January 2025 - May 2026). Grant.
  • Metsis, Vangelis. Advancing AI Research in Time Series Data Analysis, NSF NAIRR, Federal, $28480. (Funded: November 2024 - November 2025). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI)
2024-Present
Member
Master's Program Committee
2024-Present
Co-Chair
Development of Masters in Artificial Intelligence Program
2024-Present
Member
Programming Contest Committee
2023-Present
Member
Faculty (TT) Search Committee
2021-Present