Dimitrios Hatzinakos received the Diploma degree from the University
of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1983, the M.A.Sc degree from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 1986 and  the Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in 1990, all in Electrical Engineering. In September 1990 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Toronto, where now he holds the rank of
Professor with tenure. He served as Chair of the
Communications Group of the Department during the period July 1999 to June 2004.
Since November 2004, he is the holder of the Bell Canada Chair in Mutimedia, at the University of Toronto. 
Also, he is a director and the chair of the management committee of the newly established Identity, Privacy and Security Initiative (IPSI) at the University of Toronto. His research interests are in the areas
of  Multimedia Signal Processsing, Multimedia Security, Multimedia Communications and Biometric Systems.  He is author/co-author  of more than 180 papers in
technical journals  and conference proceedings and  he has contributed
to 10 books in his areas of interest. His experience includes consulting through Electrical Engineering Consociates Ltd. and contracts with United
Signals and Systems Inc., Burns and Fry Ltd., Pipetronix Ltd.,
Defense R&D Canada (DRDC), Nortel Networks, Vivosonic Inc.
and CANAMET Inc.
He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He has served as   an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
from  1998 till 2002 and Guest Editor for the special issue of
Signal Processing, Elsevier, on Signal Processing Technologies for Short
Burst Wireless Communications which appeared in October 2000. He was
a member  of the IEEE Statistical Signal and Array Processing
Technical Committee (SSAP) from 1992 till 1995 and Technical Program co-Chair
of the 5th Workshop on Higher-Order Statistics in  July 1997. 
He is a senior member of the IEEE and member of EURASIP, the Professional
Engineers of Ontario (PEO), and the Technical Chamber of Greece.