Biography

Dr. Demetrios Michalopoulos, Professor of Computer Science, has been with CSU for about thirty five years. He joined CSU in 1968 as an adjunct professor initially at Northridge and later at Long Beach. In 1971, he came to Fullerton as an assistant professor of the Department of Quantitative Methods in the SBAE (now Information Systems & Decision Sciences in the College of BAE), immediately after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. In 1976, he moved to the newly established Department of Computer Science and advanced steadily through the ranks ultimately reaching full professor status in 1977.

His association with industry is even longer. He started with doing research at NCSU (BSEE-1966) in the Electrical Engineering Department in digital design. He continued at the University of Southern California (PhD-EE 1970) doing more research in the digital research Imaging area. He continued as an Engineering Associate with Technology Service Corporation (1968 -1970) an advanced research company into digital hardware and radar design. Subsequently, he joined the TRW research team (1970-1976) in Redondo Beach where he participated in several defense projects designing computer video interfaces for a real-time tracking system as well a real time battle decision program. After TRW he joined the Ford Aerospace Division (1976-1982) in Newport Beach California as a senior engineer in the Digital Applications and Algorithm team. His duties involved several classified projects with the defense department. After Ford's sale and subsequent move to the San Diego area he continued doing consulting with other companies in the Orange County area. He set up an automated inter-company communications system for a large food company and set up an automated pattern recognition system with several insurance companies.

Dr. Michalopoulos' research has received highest recognition with his publications in the most illustrious archival journals of the Computer Science profession, such as IEEE Transactions of Computer Science and IEEE Computer Magazine. He was the Editor of IEEE Computer Magazine for ten years and served as Chair of the Orange County Chapter of IEEE twice for about 10 years in total. Dr. Michalopoulos' work has been presented at numerous national and international conferences from Hawaii to Greece and from Canada to Australia. Dr. Michalopoulos has been awarded a number of prestigious research grants and has worked during several summers for local defense and non-defense research centers, participating in development of hardware and software, utilized in many military and industrial projects including the Space Shuttle, High Energy Lasers and others.