College of Science and Technology, the National Technical University of Athens, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the University of Florence, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of Grenoble, France. He also served as adjunct professor at Concordia University. During 2003-06 he served as a member of the advisory board of the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Singapore. In April 2009, he was appointed as the Distinguished Guest Professor of the Communications University of China. He served as lecturer in 138 short courses to industry and continuing education programs and as Consultant to numerous organizations. On 1 October 2006, Professor Venetsanopoulos joined Ryerson University as the Founding Vice-president of Research and Innovation. In that position, Venetsanopoulos accepted oversight of Ryerson's international activities, research ethics and the Office of Research Services and the Office of Innovation and Commercialization. In this role, he implemented four strategies to transform the Ryerson University, which was a Polytechnic Institution only a few years before. First, the provision of stimulus and support to the quality and quantity of scholarly research and creative activity (with the stated goal of delivering a research enterprise of over $20 Million by the 2010-11 fiscal year). Second, the facilitation of the transfer of new knowledge to the community, industry and the marketplace. Third, the pursuit of partnerships and collaborations that supported the overall scholarly research and creative activities plan. Fourth, the provision of research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students throughout the university. Under his leadership, the research trajectory at Ryerson included international competitions for outstanding postdoctoral fellows; a focus on increasing innovation; international and commercial activity; and university support for excellence and ingenuity among graduate and undergraduate students. On 30 June 2010, Professor Venetsanopoulos retired from the position of Vice-president Research and Innovation at Ryerson and took a one-year administrative leave and subsequently joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In the words of Ryerson's President Sheldon Levy, "As the first ever Vice-President, Research and Innovation at Ryerson, Tas brought to the position an immediate credibility and presence based on his own international research record. He advanced research in ways that established the university as active and competitive in Scholarly Research and Creative Activity. Under his leadership Ryerson has attracted scholars and postdoctoral fellows with unprecedented momentum, and made great progress in visibility, perception and objective rankings related to research... Externally