Associate professor, Department of Mathematics
Co-founder, UH Institute for Digital Informatics and Analysis (IDIA)
Manos Papadakis is associate professor with the University of Houston’s (UH) Department of Mathematics, and
co-founder of the UH Institute for Digital Informatics (IDIA).
Through the IDIA, Dr. Papadakis and his colleagues are developing innovative techniques for harnessing data
from images to create multidimensional models for use in medicine, geology and aerospace.
Dr. Papadakis’ primary focus is on wavelet analysis using algorithms to overcome the limitations of computers
in analyzing images in their original dimensionality. The IDIA’s multi-dimensional data-filtering and post
processing technology promises to come as close as possible to replicating human vision, thereby creating a
state-of-the-art assistive diagnostic tool for use in cardiac and liver cancer patients as well as in other types of
diseases requiring soft tissue imaging.
Mentor to a number of undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral candidates, Dr. Papadakis has written and reviewed numerous journal articles and book chapters, and has been an invited speaker at and organizer of conferences worldwide.
Dr. Papadakis is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the Greek Mathematical Association. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Athens.
