Vangelis Metsis

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Texas State University

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Comal Bldg, Room 307F

601 University Drive

San Marcos, TX 78666

Phone: 512-245-7509

Dr. Vangelis Metsis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University and the Director of the Intelligent Multimodal Computing and Sensing (IMICS) Lab. He joined the department in August 2014.

Dr. Metsis earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in 2011, focusing on human-centered multimodal data analysis. He holds a B.S. with honors in Computer Science from the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) in Greece.

Dr. Metsis’ interests span the areas of Machine Learning and Computer Vision with a focus on AI-powered applications of Smart Health, Pervasive Computing, Affective Computing, and Human-AR/VR Interaction. He develops and uses methods and tools to analyze and extract meaningful information from time-series sensor data and human physiological and behavioral data using non-invasive wearable sensors.

He has secured numerous research grants as both Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator, with funding from the NSF, U.S. Department of Education, and industry partners. Dr. Metsis has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, with over 70 publications to his name.

Dr. Metsis is actively involved in the academic community, serving on program committees for various conferences and as a referee for multiple prestigious journals. He has also chaired and organized several workshops and special sessions at international conferences.

Recognized for his dedication to teaching and mentoring, Dr. Metsis has advised multiple Ph.D. and Master’s students, as well as numerous undergraduate researchers. His teaching experience spans a wide range of computer science courses, from introductory programming to advanced topics in machine learning and computer vision. He was named an Alpha Chi Favorite Professor in 2020.

selected publications

  1. Biodiffusion: A versatile diffusion model for biomedical signal synthesis
    Xiaomin Li, Mykhailo Sakevych, Gentry Atkinson, and Vangelis Metsis
    Bioengineering, 2024
  2. Recurrence and Self-attention vs the Transformer for Time-Series Classification: A Comparative Study
    Alexander Katrompas, Theodoros Ntakouris, and Vangelis Metsis
    In 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2022
  3. TTS-GAN: A Transformer-Based Time-Series Generative Adversarial Network
    Xiaomin Li, Vangelis Metsis, Huangyingrui Wang, and Anne Hee Hiong Ngu
    In 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2022
  4. Classification of emotional arousal during multimedia exposure
    Adam Anderson, Thomas Hsiao, and Vangelis Metsis
    In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, 2017
  5. IoT middleware: A survey on issues and enabling technologies
    Anne H Ngu, Mario Gutierrez, Vangelis Metsis, Surya Nepal, and Quan Z Sheng
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2016
  6. DNA copy number selection using robust structured sparsity-inducing norms
    Vangelis Metsis, Fillia Makedon, Dinggang Shen, and Heng Huang
    IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics, 2013
  7. Non-invasive analysis of sleep patterns via multimodal sensor input
    Vangelis Metsis, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, Vassilis Athitsos, and Fillia Makedon
    Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2014
  8. Digital cities of the future: Extending@ home assistive technologies for the elderly and the disabled
    Charalampos Doukas, Vangelis Metsis, Eric Becker, Zhengyi Le, Fillia Makedon, and Ilias Maglogiannis
    Telematics and Informatics, 2011
  9. Spam filtering with naive bayes-which naive bayes?
    Vangelis Metsis, Ion Androutsopoulos, and Georgios Paliouras
    In Third Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS), 2006