IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer

Maria Sabrina Greco graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1993 and received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 1998, from University of Pisa, Italy. From December 1997 to May 1998 she joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, USA as a visiting research scholar where she carried on research activity in the field of radar detection in non-Gaussian background. In 1993 she joined the Department of “Ingegneria dell’Informazione” of the University of Pisa, where now she is Associate Professor since December 2011. She is IEEE Member since 1993 and she was co-recipient, with P. Lombardo, F. Gini, A. Farina, and B. Billingsley, of the 2001 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s Barry Carlton Award for Best Paper. Dr.Greco is also recipient of the 2008 Fred Nathanson Young Engineer of the Year award “for contributions to signal processing, estimation, and detection theory”. She has given lectures at universities and institutions in Italy and abroad.
She has been co-general-chair of the 2007 International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference (WDD07), Pisa, Italy, in the Technical Committee of the 2006 EURASIP Signal and Image Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Florence, Italy, in the Technical Committee of the 2008 IEEE Radar Conference, Rome, Italy, in the Organizing Committee of the CAMSAP09, Technical co-chair of CIP2010 (Elba Island, Italy), General co-Chair of CAMSAP2011 (San Juan, Puerto Rico) and Publication Chair of ICASSP2014, Florence, Italy. She was guest co-editor of the special issue of the Journal of the IEEE Signal Processing Society on Special Topics in Signal Processing on “Adaptive Waveform Design for Agile Sensing and Communication,” published in June 2007 and lead guest editor of the special issue of International Journal of Navigation and Observation on” Modelling and Processing of Radar Signals for Earth Observation published in August 2008. She’s Associate Editor of IET Proceedings – Sonar, Radar and Navigation, of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Journal of Advances in Signal Processing (JASP), member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) and Signal Array Processing (SAM) Technical Committees. She’s also member of the IEEE AESS Board of Governors and Chair of the IEEE AESS Radar Panel. Her general interests are in the areas of statistical signal processing, estimation and detection theory. In particular, her research interests include radar clutter models, spectral analysis, coherent and incoherent detection in non-Gaussian clutter and CFAR techniques. She is a coauthor of the tutorials entitled “ Radar Clutter Modeling”, presented at the International Radar Conference (May 2005, Arlington), “ Sea and Ground Radar Clutter Modeling” presented at 2008 IEEE Radar Conference (May 2008, Rome, Italy) and at 2012 IEEE Radar Conference (May 2012, Atlanta, USA), and coauthor of the tutorial “RF and digital components for highly-integrated low-power radar” presented at the same conference.
Maria Sabrina is IEEE fellow since January 2011.

 

Petros Maragos received the Diploma M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1980, and the M.Sc.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, in 1982 and 1985.
In 1985 he joined the faculty of the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked for 8 years as professor of electrical and computer engineering, affiliated with the interdisciplinary Harvard Robotics Lab. He has also
been a consultant to several industry research groups including Xerox’s research on image analysis. In 1993 he joined the ECE faculty of Georgia Tech, Atlanta. During parts of 1996-98 he was on sabbatical and academic leave working as director of research at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing in Athens. Since 1998 he joined the faculty of the National Technical University of Athens, where he is currently working as professor of electrical and computer engineering. During Fall 2012 he was a visiting scientist at MIT, with the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems. Since 2008 he is also the director of the NTUA Laboratory on Intelligent Robotics and Automation. He has also served (during 2009-11 and 2013-present) as the director of the NTUA ECE Division of Signals, Control and Robotics. His current research and teaching interests include the general areas of signal processing, systems theory, and informatics, and their applications to computer vision and image processing, audio, speech and language processing, multimedia, cognitive systems and robotics. In the above areas he has authored or co-authored more than 250 publications as journal papers, book chapters or conference proceeding articles. He has co-edited two Springer research books, one on multimodal processing and interaction and another on shape analysis. He has also been the principal investigator and/or scientific director of several USA and European/Greek research programs.
He has served as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing and the Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; as editorial board member for the journals Signal Processing, J. Visual Communications, Image Representation, and J. Mathematic Imaging and Vision; and as guest editor for several other journals. He has served as member of international technical committees, e.g., the IEEE DSP, IMDSP and MMSP committees. He has served as general chairman or co-chairman for several international conferences, including the 1992 SPIE Conf. on Visual Communications and Image Processing, the 1996 Int’l Symposium on Mathematical Morphology & Its Applications to Image/Signal Processing, the 2007 IEEE Int’l Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, program cochair of the 2010 European Conf. on Computer Vision, tutorial cochair of EUSIPCO-2012, and coorganizer of the 2011 and 2014 Dagstuhl Symposium on Shape Analysis. He has also served as member of the Greek National Council for Research and Technology (2005-2009) and the Scientific Council for Mathematics & Information Sciences (2011-2013).
Dr. Maragos’ academic work has received several awards, including: a 1987 US NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in recognition of his academic accomplishments and potential; the 1988 IEEE ASSP Society’s Young Author Best Paper Award for his paper “Morphological Filters” (IEEE Trans. ASSP, 1987); the 1994 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Senior Best Paper Award for his paper “Energy Separation in Signal Modulations with Application to Speech Analysis” (IEEE Trans. SP, 1993); the 1995 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Award for the most outstanding original paper in all IEEE publications; the 1996 Pattern Recognition Society’s Honorable Mention Award for best paper (“Min-Max Classifiers”, Pattern Recognition, 1995); and the Best paper award from the CVPR-2011 Workshop on Gesture Recognition. In 1995 he was elected Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the theory and application of nonlinear signal processing systems. He is the recipient of the 2007 EURASIP Technical Achievements Award for contributions to nonlinear signal processing and systems theory, image processing, and speech processing. In 2010 he was elected Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) for his research contributions.

 

Yannis Stylianou is Professor of Speech Processing at University of Crete, Department of Computer Science, CSD UOC, and Group Leader of the Speech Technology Group at Toshiba Cambridge Research Lab, UK. Until 2012, he was also Associated Researcher in the Signal Processing Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science ICS at FORTH. During the academic year 2011-2012 was visiting Professor at AHOLAB, University of the Basque Country, in Bilbao, Spain (2011-2012). He received the Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University, N.T.U.A., of Athens in 1991 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Signal Processing from the Ecole National Superieure des Telecommunications, ENST, Paris, France in 1992 and 1996, respectively. From 1996 until 2001 he was with AT&T Labs Research (Murray Hill and Florham Park, NJ, USA) as a Senior Technical Staff Member. In 2001 he joined Bell-Labs Lucent Technologies, in Murray Hill, NJ, USA (now Alcatel-Lucent). Since 2002 he is with the Computer Science Department at the University of Crete while since January 2013, he is also with Toshiba Labs in Cambridge UK.
His current research focuses on speech signal processing algorithms for speech analysis, statistical signal processing (detection and estimation), and time-series analysis/modelling. He has (co-)authored more than 170 scientific publications, and 11 patents, which have received more than 3500 citations (excluding self-citations) with H-index=25. He co-edited the book on “Progress in Non Linear Speech Processing”, Springer-Verlag, 2007. He has co-organized the 1st IEEE SPS Winter School in 2012, and the 1st ISCA Summer School in 2014. He created and leads a lab for voice function assessment in collaboration with the Medical School at the University of Crete.
He was on the Board of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee and on the Editorial Board of the Digital Signal Processing Journal of Elsevier. He is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hindawi JECE, Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Speech, Audio, and Music Processing, ASMP, and of the EURASIP Research Letters in Signal Processing, RLSP. He was Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vice-Chair of the Cost Action 2103: “Advanced Voice Function Assessment”, VOICE, and on the Management Committee for the COST Action 277: “Nonlinear Speech Processing”.

 

 

Basilis G. Gatos received his Electrical Engineering Diploma in 1992 and his Ph.D. degree in 1998, both from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. His Ph.D. thesis is on Optical Character Recognition Techniques. In 1993 he was awarded a scholarship from the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”, where he worked till 1996. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as a Software Engineer at Computer Logic S.A. From 1998 to 2001 he worked at Lambrakis Press Archives as a Director of the Research Division in the field of digital preservation of old newspapers. From 2001 to 2003 he worked at BSI S.A. as Managing Director of R&D Division in the field of document management and recognition. He is currently working as a Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece. His main research interests are in Image Processing and Document Image Analysis, OCR and Pattern Recognition. He has more than 120 publications in journals and international conference proceedings and has participated in several research programs funded by the European community. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) and program committee member of several international Conferences and Workshops(e.g. ICDAR 2009, ICFHR 2010, ICDAR 2011, CBDAR 2011, AND 2011, International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing 2011, DAS 2012, ICDAR 2013). Basiis Gatos is co-organiser of the International Conference of Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR) in 2014.

 

 

Christophoros Nikou received the Diploma in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1994 and the DEA and Ph.D. degrees in image processing and computer vision from Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He was a Senior Researcher with the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2001. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Research Engineer and Project Manager with Compucon S.A., Thessaloniki, Greece. He was a Lecturer (2004-2009) and an Assistant Professor (2009-2013) with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, where he has been an Assiociate Professor, since 2013. His research interests mainly include image processing and analysis, computer vision and pattern recognition and their application to medical imaging. He is a member of EURASIP and an IEEE Senior Member.

 

 

Athanasios Rontogiannis received the diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1991, the M.A.Sc. from the University of Victoria, Canada, in 1993 and the PhD in Signal Processing and Communications from the University of Athens in 1997. From 1998 to 1999, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Athens and from 1999 to 2003 he was with the University of Ioannina as a Lecturer in Informatics. In 2003 joined the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), where since 2011 he is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS).
His research interests are in the general areas of statistical signal processing and wireless communications with emphasis on adaptive estimation, hyperspectral image processing, Bayesian compressive sensing, channel estimation/equalization and cooperative communications. He has co-authored 76 publications on these topics including 2 book chapters, 24 peer-reviewed journal papers and 50 refereed international conference publications. He has participated as PI, co-PI or research coordinator in 5 European Commission and 8 national projects. He has been in the Technical Program Committee of 15 international conferences, in one of them as the Technical Program co-Chair. Currently, he serves at the Editorial Boards of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Springer (since 2008) and Signal Processing, Elsevier (since 2011). He is member of the IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Societies and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

 

 

Alexandros Potamianos received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1990. He received the M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA in 1991 and 1995, respectively. He received the M.B.A. degree from Stern School of Business, NYU in 2002. From 1991 to June 1993 he was a research assistant at the Robotics Lab, Harvard University. From 1993 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the Digital Signal Processing Lab at Georgia Tech. From 1995 to 1999 he was a Senior Technical Staff Member at the Speech and Image Processing Lab, AT&T Shannon Labs, Florham Park, NJ. From 1999 to 2002 he was a Technical Staff Member and Technical Supervisor at the Multimedia Communications Lab at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ. From 1999 to 2001 he was an adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Columbia University, New York, NY. From 2003 to 2013 he was an adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering of Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece. In the summer of 2013, he joined the School of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece as an associate professor. His current research interests include speech processing, analysis, synthesis and recognition, dialog and multi-modal systems, lexical semantics, nonlinear signal processing, natural language understanding, artificial intelligence and multimodal child-computer interaction. Prof. Potamianos has authored or co-authored over 110 papers in professional journals and conferences. He is the co-author of the paper “Creating conversational interfaces for children” that received a 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He is the co-editor of the book “Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text”, Springer, 2008. He holds four patents. He has been a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society since 1992 and a senior member since 2010. He is currently serving his third term at the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee and his first term at the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Committee.