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 has served as Chair of the Communications Group of the Department during the period July 
1999 to June 2004. From November 2004 till October 2014, he held  the Bell Canada Chair in Mutimedia, at the
 University of Toronto. Also, he is the co-founder and since 2009 the Director and the chair of the 
management committee of the Identity, Privacy and Security Institute (IPSI) at the University of Toronto.
 The Institute is dedicated in developing new approaches to security that maintain the privacy, freedom 
and safety of the individual and the broader community. He is also the founder of the Biometrics Security
 (BioSec) and Multimedia Communications (MCL)  Laboratories at the University of Toronto.
His research interests and expertise are in the areas of  Multimedia Signal Processing, Multimedia Security
, Multimedia Communications and Biometric Systems.  He is more widely known for his research work in the 
areas of Blind Signal Deconvolution, Blind Image Restoration, and Digital Watermarking of Multimedia 
'content with over 10,000 citations of his work in these areas. His more recent research work in the area 
of Medical Biometrics is receiving a lot of attention and has established his research group as a leading 
authority in this field. He is author/co-author  of more than 300 papers in 
technical journals  and conference proceedings, he has contributed to 18 books and he has 7 patents 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, CANAMET Inc., OLG, and KELA Medical  among others.
He is co-author of the Best student paper award,  at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 
Speech and  Signal Processing, ICASSP’2012, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012. He is  a Fellow of the Engineering
 Institute of Canada since February 2012 and recipient of the 2012 University of Toronto  Inventor of the
 year award. He served as   an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, from
 2008-2013. Also, 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 has been
co-chair of the International Symposium on Smart Data organized at the University of Toronto in May 2012.  
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada,  and member of the 
Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), and 
the Technical Chamber of Greece.