Modris Greitāns

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.

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