The IONIAN group at ETRO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) carries out research in interpretable machine learning, signal processing, and explainable AI. The group is headed by Nikos Deligiannis and is part of the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) at VUB, and affiliated to imec, Belgium.

Nikos Deligiannis

Nikos Deligiannis is a Professor at ETRO, VUB, the holder of the 2024–2025 Francqui Research Professorship on Trustworthy AI, and a Principal Investigator at imec, Belgium. He received a 2024 ERC Consolidator Grant to conduct research at the intersection between interpretable/explainable AI and multiterminal compression for autonomous vehicles. His current research focuses on interpretable and explainable AI, multidimensional signal processing, computer vision, and distributed/federated AI for automotive and healthcare applications.

He received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece (2006) and his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from VUB (2012). From 2013 to 2015, he was a Senior Researcher at University College London, UK. He is a member of IEEE and EURASIP, served as Chair of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal and Data Analytics for Machine Learning (2021–2023), and serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.