Iñaki Goirizelaia
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May 2, 1958
Iñaki Goirizelaia | |
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| Born | Joseba Iñaki Goirizelaia Ordorika May 2, 1958 |
| Alma mater | University of the Basque Country Stanford Research Institute |
| Known for | President of the University of the Basque Country (2009–2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Telecommunication Engineering, artificial intelligence, artificial vision |
| Thesis | Partially Visible Part Recognition via Artificial Vision in Industrial Environments (1988) |
Iñaki Goirizelaia, PhD (Bilbo, 1958 – ) is a full professor of Telecommunication Engineering at the University of the Basque Country in the Department of Communication Engineering. In 1981 he began his work as a professor at the Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao[which?]. He is the former President of the University of the Basque Country (2009–2017). Previously, he was Vice-president of the Campus of Biscay of the same university (2005–2008).
He was elected as President of the University of the Basque Country on December 4, 2008.[1] He was reelected in December 2012 as an unopposed candidate.[2] So far, he is the only professor to complete two terms as the university's president.[3]
Despite his position in times of serious economic crisis, he achieved important milestones in teaching infrastructures, research, education and use of the Basque language in the university. At the end of his second term, when he left the office of President of the University of the Basque Country, he asked political representatives for a new Law of the Basque University System that provides more autonomy to the University of the Basque Country to manage it and guarantees public funding.[4]
After his two terms were completed, he was replaced by the new elected president Nekane Balluerka.[3]
Starting in 2007 he worked actively in the attainment of the .eus Internet domain. He is a member of the .eus Foundation which was created, once ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved .eus domain, to promote and provide the backbone to the Basque language and culture community in Internet. At the beginning of 2017 he was elected president of .eus Foundation replacing Joan Mari Torrealdai.[5] He is a Basque traditional folk dancer and in some academic events, in addition to the word, he used dance to convey his messages.[6] He is currently the director of the Amilotx Folk Dance group (Mungia, Basque Country).[7]
Academic career
Between 1984 and 1985 he was a visiting fellow at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in California (United States), where he focused on research in the field of artificial intelligence and artificial vision. This work was the basis of his doctoral thesis, entitled "Partially Visible Part Recognition via Artificial Vision in Industrial Environments" in 1987. It was written in Basque language.[8]
For the latter half of 2004, he was a visiting professor at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There, he conducted research in technology for electronic and Internet voting systems.
In February 2017 he was appointed the first visiting professor in the Eloise Garmendia Bieter at Boise State University (BSU) where he taught a course under the title "Nation making: Education, Science and Media".[9]
