Portrait of Dr. Vangelis Metsis

Dr. Vangelis Metsis

  • Associate Professor at Computer Science, College of Science & Engineering

Biography

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.

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.

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.