Nikos Paragios was born at Rhodes, Greece in 1972.

He is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Ecole Centrale Paris

École Centrale Paris

École Centrale Paris is a French university-level institution in the field of engineering. It is also known by its original name École centrale des arts et manufactures, or ECP. Founded in 1829, it is one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering schools in France and has the special status...

. He is also affiliated with INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, the French Research Institute in Informatics and Control. His main research interest are medical imaging

Medical imaging

Medical imaging is the technique and process used to create images of the human body for clinical purposes or medical science...

, computer vision

Computer vision

Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions...

 and human computer interaction. He was one of the laureates of the MIT Technology Review TR35

TR35

The TR35 is an annual list published by MIT Technology Review magazine, naming the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35.Some of the most famous winners of the award include Larry Page and Sergey Brin , Linus Torvalds , Jerry Yang , Jonathan Ive , Mark Zuckerberg...

 award in 2006 and was awarded the Bodossaki foundation Prize from Greece

Greece

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 in 2008 for his contributions in the field of applied sciences.

He is married to Alina Paragyios, a J.D., L.L.M., PhD who directs a law firm practicing employment / labor law in Paris.

External links

• Nikos Paragios Research Website http://vision.mas.ecp.fr
• Alina Paragyios Website http://www.cabinet-alina-paragyios.fr, http://www.cabinet-alina-paragyios.net