Dr. sc. comp., Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences Modris Greitāns has been working at the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science (EDI) since 1990. He has been the director of the institute since 2007 (from 2015 to 2019 – scientific director). He obtained his Doctor degree in 2000, defending his PhD thesis “Reconstruction of non-uniformly sampled signals”. In 2012, he was elected as corresponding member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, and in 2018, as a full member. His scientific research topics include signal and image processing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things applications in smart transport, future and personalized medicine (smart wearable sensor systems), Industry 4.0 solutions, as well as security, etc.
From 2014 to 2017, he led the National Research Program in the field of ICT, “Cyber-physical systems, ontologies and biophotonics for a safe & Intelligent city and society” (SOPHIS), in which a significant section is devoted to the development of smart embedded cooperative system technologies. Since 1992, he has gained experience in the management and implementation of more than 20 international and 20 Latvian research projects. Currently, he is the head of the Latvian partner’s part in the Horizon Europe projects SUSTRONICS (dedicated to the development of sustainable electronic components) and EdgeAI (dedicated to peripheral artificial intelligence in mobility applications).
The total number of published scientific works exceeds 150, including 111 publications in the SCOPUS database (H-index 15). He is the co-author of three registered European patents and seven Latvian patents. He has supervised seven successfully defended PhD’s and more than thirty master’s theses.
In 2018, he received the Eižens Āriņš Award (“Eižena Ārina balva”), the highest award in the IT industry in Latvia. He was co-author of the DASP-lab system, which received the European IT Prize in 1997. He is the lead co-author of several works that have received letters of appreciation from the President of the Latvian Academy of Sciences – “First self-driving car trips in Latvia” (2017) and “An original approach to transforming artificial neural network architecture into programmable logical array structures” (2018). Co-author of works that received the Latvian Science Achievement Award in 2022 – “A unique industrial robotics solution has been created – a smart robot with advanced vision, sensing, and human gesture understanding capabilities” and in 2024 – “Robot cognitive perception and high-level instruction interpretation with natural language concepts.
He is the editor-in-chief of the journal “Automatic Control and Computer Science”, foreign affairs secretary and board member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, board member of the Association of State Scientific Institutes, member of the EDI Scientific Council, and member of the promotion councils of RTU and LU.
Recent projects
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Smart Materials, Photonics, Technologies, and Engineering Ecosystem (MOTE) #VPP
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Sustainable and green electronics for circular economy (Sustronics) #ChipsJU
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Electro-conductive Polymeric 3D Scaffolds as novel strategies for biometrical applications (ESCULAPE) #ChipsJU
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Edge AI Technologies for Optimised Performance Embedded Processing (EdgeAI) #ChipsJU
Recent publications
- Janis Arents, Modris Greitans. 2022. "Smart Industrial Robot Control Trends, Challenges and Opportunities within Manufacturing" Applied Sciences 12, no. 2: 937. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020937
- Ahluwalia Vaibhav, Arents Janis, Oraby Aly, Greitans Modris. Construction and benchmark of an autonomous tracked mobile robot system. Robotic Systems and Applications, Jan. 2022. (in Press). https://doi.org/10.21595/rsa.2022.22336
- Arents, J., Lesser, B., Bizuns, A., Kadikis, R., Buls, E., Greitans, M. (2022). Synthetic Data of Randomly Piled, Similar Objects for Deep Learning-Based Object Detection. In: Sclaroff, S., Distante, C., Leo, M., Farinella, G.M., Tombari, F. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2022. ICIAP 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13232. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06430-2_59
- Racinskis, Peteris, Janis Arents, and Modris Greitans. 2022. "A Motion Capture and Imitation Learning Based Approach to Robot Control" Applied Sciences 12, no. 14: 7186. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12147186
- Peteris Racinskis, Janis Arents, Modris Greitans. 2024 "Annotating SLAM data sets with Apriltag markers" 2024 10th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), pp.438-442. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARA60736.2024.10553010
- V. Aristov, M.Greitans. "Study of a Radar Sensor Transmitter to Optimize a Bipolar Ultrawideband Pulse Used to Excite the Antenna" Automatic Control and Computer Sciences, 58(6)
- Addisu Kidanemariam, Brijesh Patel, Peter Lai, Yun-Ju Lai, Vytautas Bučinskas, Modris Greitans, Po Ting Lin* . "Cell Manipulation with Piezoelectric Micro Pumps and Control Valves" 2024 International Automatic Control Conference (CACS 2024), pp.1035. https://www.cacs2024.org/_files/ugd/bb0140_eed25d5d21864b3bb9d3cda985639e88.pdf
- Peteris Racinskis , Oskars Vismanis , Toms Eduards Zinars , Janis Arents and Modris Greitans "Towards Open-Set NLP-Based Multi-Level Planning for Robotic Tasks" Applied Sciences, 14(22)L pp.10717. https://doi.org/10.3390/app142210717
- Oskars Vismanis, Janis Arents, Jurga Subačiute-Žemaitieṅe, Vytautas Bučinskas, Andrius Dzedzickis, Brijesh Patel, Wei-Cheng Tung, Po-Ting Lin, Modris Greitans "A Vision-Based Micro-Manipulation System" Applied Sciences 13(24) http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app132413248
- Armands Ancans, Modris Greitans, Sandis Kagis. "An Efficient Communication Protocol for Real-Time Body Sensor Data Acquisition and Feedback in Interactive Wearable Systems" Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 14(1). https://www.mdpi.com/2224-2708/14/1/4
- Tomass Zutis, Peteris Racinskis, Anzelika Bureka, Janis Judvaitis, Janis Arents, and Modris Greitans. Multi-Step Object Re-Identification on Edge Devices: A Pipeline for Vehicle Re-Identification.
- Peteris Racinskis , Gustavs Krasnikovs, Janis Arents and Modris Greitans, 2025. "The EDI Multi-Modal Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Dataset (EDI-SLAM)" Data, 10 (1), https://doi.org/10.3390/data10010005
- Toms Eduards Zinars, Oskars Vismanis, Peteris Racinskis, Janis Arents, Modris Greitans. 2025. Model Selection and Prompting Strategies in Resource Constrained Environments for LLM-based Robotic System. In O. Vermesan, A. Pagani & P. Meloni (Eds.), Charting the Intelligence Frontiers: Edge AI Systems Nexus: pp.147-165. https://doi.org/10.13052/rp-9788743808831
- Modris Greitāns, Gatis Gaigals, Aleksandrs Levinskis. 2025. Modris Greitāns, Gatis Gaigals, Aleksandrs Levinskis. Implementation of LoRa TDMA-Based Mobile Cell Broadcast Protocol for Vehicular Networks. Information (Switzerland), 16(6), MDPI, 2025.
- Peteris Racinskis, Oskars Vismanis, Toms Eduards Zinars, Janis Arents, Modris Greitans. 2025. Correction to: Towards Open-Set NLP-Based Multi-Level Planning for Robotic Tasks. Applied Sciences (Switzerland) 15(5). https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/86000603394?inward
Patents
- LR patents Nr. 15308 “Mobila ierīce bezvadu sensoru tīklu un to mezglu efektīvai izstrādei mērķa vide”
- LR patents Nr. 14767 “Simetriskas ultra-platjoslas (UWB) antenas triecienierosmes impulsa formētājs”
- LR patents Nr. 14622 “Zigzag antena, kas konstruktīvi ir sajūgta ar koaksiālo kabeli”
- LR patents Nr. 14280 “Pikosekunžu impulsu formētājs ar IMPATT diodi”
- LR patents Nr. 13770 “Metode un ierīce signāla laika-frekvences reprezentācijas paaugstinātas izšķirtspējas iegūšanai”
- Patent No. EP2695297 (B1) “Ultra-wideband sharpener for excitation a symmeric antenna”
- Patent No. EP2700054 B1 “System and method for video-based vehicle detection”
- Patent No. EP 2695104 B1 “Biometric authentication apparatus and biometric authentication method”