Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos (June 19, 1941 - November 17, 2014) was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto, Ontario and a Professor Emeritus with the Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. In October 2006, Professor Venetsanopoulos joined what was then Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) and served as the Founding Vice-president of Research and Innovation. His portfolio included oversight of the university's international activities, research ethics, Office of Research Services, and Office of Innovation and Commercialization. He retired from that position in 2010, but remained a distinguished advisor to the role. Tas Venetsanopoulos continued to actively supervise his research group at the University of Toronto, and was a highly sought-after consultant throughout his career. Education Tas Venetsanopoulos received a Bachelor of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens, and an M.S., M.Phil., and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Tas Venetsanopoulos was a Fulbright Scholar and a Schmitt Scholar, and in 1994 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from his alma mater, the National Technical University of Athens. Personal life In 1986, Tas Venetsanopoulos married Vasiliki Koronakis in a Greek Orthodox service in Toronto, Ontario. They have two daughters: Elizabeth Venetsanopoulos (born 1987) and Dominique Venetsanopoulos (born 1988). Research interests Tas Venetsanopoulos' research interests included: biometrics research; multimedia (image compression, image and video retrieval); digital signal/image processing (multichannel image processing, nonlinear, adaptive and M-D filtering, knowledge-based image processing and recognition, 3-D imaging, biomedical applications); pattern classification and telecommunications. Research record Professor Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos had a long and productive career in research, education and university administration. He was an internationally renowned researcher in the fields of multimedia systems, digital signal and image processing, digital communications, biometrics and neural networks. Over a period of four decades, he established himself in the worldwide telecommunications and signal processing community as an outstanding researcher, scholar, professor and consultant. He made contributions to telecommunications, signal and image processing, multimedia and biometrics research by authoring and co-authoring many journal papers and books. His pioneering and fundamental research contributions, along with the writing of numerous graduate-level books, opened up new vistas in several fields, including telecommunications; multidimensional filter theory and design; the design of non-linear filters; multimedia neural networks; biometrics applications and WLAN positioning systems. According to a 2020 Google