Dimitris Metaxas

Dimitris Metaxas is a Board of Governors Professor in the Dept. of CS at Rutgers Univ. He is the NSF IUCRC CARTA Phase II Director and Director of the Rutgers Center for Computational Biomedicine, Imaging and Modeling (CBIM) and has been running NSF IUCRCs since 2010. His research focuses on novel AI, machine learning, coupling ML with domain knowledge, dynamical systems and ML, computer vision and medical image analysis methods. He has been developing novel AI methods for image and text generation using Generative Adversarial Methods and Diffusion models, large foundation models (LLMs, VLMs), human explainable AI, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning methods, Dynamical Systems and Physics-based models and AI and has applied them to many problems in computer vision, biomedical applications and graphics. His research has been supported by NSF, NIH, AFOSR, DARPA, HSARPA and ONR. He is a co-organizer of the Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems (DDDAS) Conference in 2024, a General Chair of IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2026, and of the Information Processing in Medical Imaging IPMI in 2025. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of the MICCAI Society.
Dr. Metaxas got his Diploma with highest honors from the Technical University of Athens Greece in 1986, his MSc from the Univ. of Maryland in 1988, and his PhD from the Univ. of Toronto in 1992. From 1992 to 2002 he was a tenured Prof. at UPENN with early tenure, and since 2002 joined Rutgers Univ and founded CBIM. He has over 800 published articles, has graduated over 67 PhD students, has pioneered several methods in AI, computer vision, computer graphics (water scenes in Move “Antz” in 1998 based on software developed by his student Nick Foster) and medical image analysis, and has received numerous awards at top conferences as well as 10 patents.