He is also a member of the doctoral faculty of the Graduate Center. He has been working in the areas of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. His current research interests are in the broad area of photorealistic 3D model acquisition and the utilization of dense range 3D data. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of Columbia University, his M.S. and M.Phil. from the same department and his Diploma of Engineering from the University of Patras (Department of Computer Engineering), Greece. Professor Stamos is a recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) by the National Science Foundation. He is currently supported by a number of NSF awards. For more information on his research please visit http://www.cs.hunter.cuny.edu/~ioannis