About

Dr. Anthony Stefanidis is a Professor of Computer Science at the College of William & Mary. 


His research has been focused on two key components:

i) GeoSocial Analysis, pursuing the harvesting of intelligence from open source content and social media feeds, and 

ii) Digital Image Analysis for the harvesting of geolocated or spatiotemporal content from imagery.


Dr. Stefanidis received his Dipl. Eng. from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the College of William & Mary in 2020, he held tenured positions at George Mason University (2007-2020), and the University of Maine (1996-2006), and served as postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (1993 – 1995).

He has authored over 100 fully refereed publications in journals and conference proceedings, and has edited three books. His research activities have been funded by a variety of sources, including DHS, NGA, IARPA, Draper Lab, NSF, NASA, USGS, and the European Union.