Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis (S'87, M'98) was born in Kastoria, Greece in 1966. He received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 1997, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Since December 1999 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, as a Lecturer, where he is working on lung sounds, heart sounds, bowel sounds, ECG data compression, and seismic data analysis in the Signal Processing and Biomedical Technology Unit of the Telecommunications Laboratory. His research interests are in digital signal processing, higher-order statistics, alpha-stable distributions, higher-order zero crossings, wavelets and polyspectra for medical applications and seismic signal processing.
Dr. Hadjileontiadis is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, of the IEEE, of the Higher-Order Statistics Society, of the International Lung Sound Association, and of the American College of Chest Physicians. He was the recipient of the second Award at the Best Paper Competition of the ninth Panhellenic Medical Conference on Thorax Diseases'97, Thessaloniki. He was also an open finalist at the Student paper Competition (Whitaker Foundation) of the IEEE EMBS'97, Chicago, IL, a finalist at the Student Paper Competition (in memory of Dick Poortvliet) of the MEDICON'98, Lemesos, Cyprus, and the recipient of the Young Scientist Award of the twenty-fourth International Lung Sounds Conference'99, Marburg, Germany.
Dr. Hadjileontiadis also holds a guitar and a composition diploma. Since now he has written over 50 compositions and he has awarded 6 times for his music work. Since 1999 he is a professor of composition in music at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.