Kosta Derpanis is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University. He earned his Honours Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in computer science from the University of Toronto in 2000, followed by a Master's degree in 2003 and a PhD in 2010 from York University, where he was supervised by Professors John Tsotsos and Richard Wildes. His dissertation work earned him an Honourable Mention for the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS) Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2010. After completing his doctoral studies, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania under the guidance of Professor Kostas Daniilidis. Derpanis joined the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University in 2012 as an associate professor. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and has been involved in organizing roles such as Area Chair for major conferences including AAAI, ICRA, CVPR, and ICCV in 2021. His primary research fields include computer vision, with a particular focus on motion analysis, human motion understanding, image processing, and machine learning, particularly deep learning.
York University • Toronto, Canada
Joined the Department of Computer Science as an associate professor after postdoctoral research.