Thirimachos Bourlai | Professor
University of Georgia

Dr. Thirimachos Bourlai is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Georgia. He is a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the College of Engineering and serves as Courtesy Faculty in the School of Computing and Adjunct Faculty at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence. In addition to his academic role, he holds a joint appointment with Savannah River National Laboratory and is the Innovation Fellow at the College of Engineering at UGA (2025-2027). He is the Founder and Director of the Multi-Spectral Imagery Lab. Dr. Bourlai holds significant editorial and leadership roles within the research community. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) Special Series on Artificial Intelligence for Smart Agriculture (2025). He is a member of the ASTM Advisory Board for the Certification Facial Examination (CFE) for the 2025–2026 term. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Document Security Alliance, a former Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council, and a member of the Academic Research and Innovation Expert Group of the Biometrics Institute. Dr. Bourlai’s research contributions include five books published by Springer: Face Recognition Across the Imaging Spectrum (2016, 1st ed.; 2024, 2nd ed.), Surveillance in Action (2018), Securing Social Identity in Mobile Platforms(2020), and Disease Control through Social Network Surveillance (2022), with a sixth book on Military Artificial Intelligence forthcoming in 2026. His work is further complemented by three patents and more than 150 publications in journals, conferences, book chapters, and magazines, focusing on computer vision, biometrics, and related fields.