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Vasilis Z. Marmarelis received a diploma in Electrical Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1972 and completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering Science (Bio-Information Systems) from the California Institute of Technology in 1973 and 1976, respectively. He began his career as a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, focusing on Bio-Information Systems from 1976 to 1978 before joining the faculty at USC. He served as Chairman of Biomedical Engineering from 1990 to 1996 and co-directed the Biomedical Simulations Resource (BMSR), which is dedicated to the modeling and simulation of physiological systems with funding from the National Institutes of Health. He co-authored the seminal book 'Analysis of Physiological Systems: A White Noise Approach' and has published over a hundred journal papers and book chapters. In 2000, he invented the 'Multimodal Ultrasound Tomography' system for the early detection of breast cancer, which has undergone clinical validation in Europe. His research primarily focuses on biomedical systems modeling, signal analysis, and applications in physiology and medical diagnosis.
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