Dr. Andreas. S. Panayides (male) (EMBS Member, Senior IEEE Member) is with the Electronic Health (eHealth) Laboratory of the University of Cyprus. He is also a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico (Image and Video Processing and Communications group). Formerly, he was a Marie Curie Fellow with the Communications and Signal Processing group at Imperial College. Dr. Panayides received the PhD degree from the University of Cyprus in 2011, the MSc degree from KINGS College London in 2005, and the BSc from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2004. His research interests lie in adaptive video delivery for real time applications, mHealth and eHealth systems and services, pervasive computing for healthcare applications, and interactive and distributed analytics of large scale medical video databases. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and book chapters, in these areas. He is the Lead Guest Editor of IET Healthcare Technology Letters, Special Issue on mHealth-Emerging Mobile Health Systems and Services, and the holder of a pending patent on adaptive video processing and delivery. Dr. Panayides is actively involved in national and international research projects, funded by the European Commission, the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus, and recently the National Science Foundation (USA).
