Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou | |
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| Born | March 22, 1942 Athens, Greece |
| Died | September 24, 2012 (aged 70) New Jersey, USA |
| Alma mater | University of Athens, B.S. Syracuse University, M.S. and Ph.D. |
| Occupation(s) | Biomedical engineer University professor |
| Spouse | George S. Tzanakos (1940–2013) |
Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou (March 22, 1942 – September 24, 2012) was a professor of biomedical engineering and the Director of Computational Intelligence Laboratories at Rutgers University.[1][2] Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou was also a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine. Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou's areas of interest included neural networks, information processing in the brain, image and signal processing applied to biomedicine, telemedicine, mammography, hearing aids and electronic equivalents of neurons.[3] Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou received international attention in 1974 when she established the first Brain to Computer Interface (BCI) using her algorithm ALOPEX. This method was used in the study of Parkinson's disease. The ALOPEX algorithm has also been applied toward signal processing, image processing, and pattern recognition.[4] Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou died on September 24, 2012, after a long fight with cancer.[2]
