Marios S. Pattichis
Associate Professor

Contact Information:
(505) 277-0486
pattichis@ece.unm.edu
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Degrees: PhD, Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998 MSE, Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1993 BA, Mathematics (high honors), University of Texas at Austin, 1991 BSc, Computer Science (high honors and special honors, minor in EE), University of Texas at Austin, 1991

In 2008, Professor Marios Pattichis served as a co-principal investigator with Professor Christos Christodoulou on a $2.822 million grant-funded project to establish the FPGA Mission Assurance Center (FMAC) as a collaboration between the University of New Mexico and the U.S. Air Force. For information, see http://www.fpgamac.com/.

The primary goal of FMAC is to support research and education in reconfigurable systems. Currently, the team’s interests are in the general area of dynamic computational systems, which allow researchers to dynamically adapt the hardware to specific performance and energy requirements. As a first system, ECE spring 2008 doctoral graduate Alonzo Vera demonstrated many of the ideas in a dynamic arithmetic system that adapts its precision and mathematical operations to different requirements.

Professor Pattichis has been actively involved in developing reconfigurable systems since his arrival at UNM in 1999. In this area he has served as faculty advisor to Dr. Vera, Craig J. Kief (deputy director of FMAC), and Benjamin Mar. In the area of dynamic computational systems, Dr. Pattichis is currently PhD dissertation advisor to Daniel Llamocca and Yuebing Jiang and MS thesis advisor to Colby Hoffman.

Dr. Pattichis served as the general chair of the 2008 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation. He is currently a guest editor to the Special Issue on Computational Intelligence in Medical Systems, which will be published by IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.

Dr. Pattichis is director of ECE’s Image & Video Processing and Communication Lab. He received ECE’s 2004 Teacher of the Year award, the UNM School of Engineering Harrison Faculty Excellence Award, and the 2006 Best Paper award (co-author) from the 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI06). He holds a joint appointment with UNM’s Department of Radiology.