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Aris Dermitzakis holds a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, as well as an MSc Diploma and a PhD Degree in Biomedical Engineering (BME) from the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme on BME, co-organized by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Patras, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens.He has been collaborating with the Institute of Biomedical Technology since 2008 where currently is the CEO and Head of the Medical Technology Management Unit. During this period he has been collaborating with WHO in a series of Medical Devices, Health Technology Assessment, Procurement and Nomenclature projects, he has been supervising the creation of Medical Devices Inventories for Hospitals and Health facilities in a National Level around Greece, supervising installation and support of correct usage of INBIT’s Medical Devices Management System, Web-Praxis and played a key role in the design and upgrade of the system. He has participated in a series of Electrical Safety tests for Medical Devices and infrastructures of hospitals in Greece, and has been a member of the organizing committee in a series of seminars, workshops and congresses organized by INBIT or Hellenic Society of Biomedical Technology.Additionally he has been a member of the Biomedical Technology Unit at the University of Patras, since 2008. During this period he has participated or taken grant in numerous Greek and European research projects as a Program Leader or PostDoc researcher, has been giving lectures on Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging and HTA and supervised 7 MSc Thesis (3 of them still ongoing), and has gained experimental research grants for X-ray imaging projects. His research results have also been presented in more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and/or in National and International peer reviewed Conferences. Additionally he has been patent holder for a novel X-ray Imaging Technique.His research interests are related with Biomedical Engineering, Medical Imaging, X-Ray Imaging Simulation, AI & Deep Learning, Computer Assisted Diagnosis, 3D X-ray Image Reconstruction, Dual Energy X-Ray Imaging, X-ray Image Filtering, Image Enhancement, Design of Software and Physical X-ray Imaging Phantoms, 3D Printing using FDM and SLA Techniques, GPU Computing, Sparse Representations and Health Technology Assessment.