Biography
Hadi Ali Akbarpour is an adjunct assistant research professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2012). He is a multi-disciplinary researcher with primary research interests spanning the areas of artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning and autonomous systems and robotics. He has been a co-PI and PI in multiple research projects performed at the University of Missouri ($8M) and more than six SBIR projects ($6M). He has 70+ publications in high impact conferences, journals and books, U.S. patents, 6 awards (best papers, presentations and challenges). Dr. Akbarpour is the General Chair of 51st IEEE AIPR (Washington D.C.) and is a co-organizer of the Special Session “Analysis of Aerial Motion Imagery” in the International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE-ICIP), France, 2022. He has been on the Editorial Board of Remote Sensing Journal since 2021. He was a Guest Editor for Sensors Journal for Object Tracking and Recognition (2019-2021).
Education
Ph.D. (electrical engineering) from University of Coimbra
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Technical Focus
Autonomous systems and robotics
Artificial intelligence
Computer vision
Machine learning