Curriculum Vitae
Ioannis Papathanail is a postdoctoral researcher at the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, at the University of Bern, Switzerland, focusing on AI in health and nutrition. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Bern, with a dissertation titled "Machine learning-based dietary assessment".
He earned his Bachelor and Integrated Master's degree from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, with a thesis titled "Techniques for Audio-Visual Diarization and Segmentation of Speakers". He has been involved in various research projects, including Medipiatto and MELISSA, which focus on AI-driven health solutions. Medipiatto promotes the Mediterranean diet through meal image analysis and personalized dietary suggestions, while MELISSA focuses on AI systems for diabetes care, including meal carbohydrate estimation and personalized insulin adjustments. Additionally, he has helped organize the International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management. He has also served as a lecturer at the University of Bern, for the food/non-food image classification lab, and as a teaching assistant working on data-driven diabetes management. His current scientific interests include machine learning, computer vision, and mHealth.
