Education
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University, Boston MA, 1991

M.S.E.E., Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University, Boston MA, 1986

Diploma in Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1986

Research Interests

Statistical signal processing - system identification; MIMO system estimation; blind source separation; higher-order statistics
Networking - cooperative protocols for wireless networks; physical layer security
Wireless communications - blind channel estimation and equalization; CDMA systems OFDM systema
Radar - MIMO Radar, compressive sensing

Awards and Recognition

• Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (The White House / NSF), 1995
• IEEE Fellow, 2008
• Editor-In-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011)
• 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award (co-recipient)
• Member-at-Large, IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors (2004-2005)
• IEEE Signal Processing Society VP Conferences (2006-2009)
• Plenary Speaker, 2009 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing Cardiff, UK. Topic: Cooperative Beamforming for wireless communications
• Member of IEEE Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods (2000-2005), (2009-2011)
• The Whitaker Foundation Award (1995)

Research Profile and Citations (per Google Scholar)

Selected Publications

• Higher-Order Spectra Analysis: A Nonlinear Signal Processing Framework, C.L. Nikias and A.P. Petropulu. Prentice Hall, Oppenheim Series in Signal Processing, 1993.
• H. Godrich, A. Petropulu and H. V. Poor, "Sensor Selection in Distributed Multiple-Radar Architectures for Localization: A Knapsack Problem Formulation," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Volume: 60 , Issue: 1. Page(s): 247 - 260, 2012.
• Y. Yu, A. Petropulu and H.V. Poor, "CSSF MIMO RADAR: Low-complexity compressive sensing Babsed MIMO
  Radar that uses step frequency," IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, to appear in 2011. Also available at http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1101/1101.2719v1.pdf
• Y. Yu, A. Petropulu and H.V. Poor, "Measurement Matrix Design for Compressive Sensing-Based MIMO
  Radar," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 59, Issue 11, pp. 5338 - 5352, 2011. Also available at http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1102/1102.5079v1.pdf
• Y. Liu and A. Petropulu, "On the sumrate of amplify-and-forward relay networks with multiple source-destination pairs," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Volume: 10 , Issue: 11, Page(s): 3732 - 3742, 2011.
• J. Li and A. Petropulu, "Ergodic secrecy rate for Gaussian MIMO wiretap channels with Rician fading," IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 6, Issue 3, Part 1, pp. 861 - 867, 2011.
• J. Li, A. Petropulu and S. Weber, ``Optimal cooperative relaying schemes for Improving wireless physical layer security," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing}, Volume 59, Issue 10, pp. 4985 - 4997, 2011. Also available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.1389v1
• H. Godrich, A. Petropulu and H. V. Poor, "Power allocation strategies for target localization in distributed multiple radar architectures," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 59, Issue 7, pp. 3226 - 3240, 2011.
• J. Li, A. Petropulu, "On ergodic secrecy capacity for Gaussian MISO wiretap channels," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Vol.10, Issue 4, pp. 1176 - 1187, 2011. A;so available at: http://arXiv:1003.2372v1
• J. Li, A. Petropulu and H.V. Poor, ``On cooperative beamforming based on second-order statistics of channel state information," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol: 59, March 2011, Page(s): 1280 - 1291.
• X. Liu, J. Kountouriotis, A. Petropulu and K. Dandekar, "ALOHA with collision resolution (ALOHA-CR): theory and software defined radio implementation," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Volume: 58 , Issue: 8, 2010, Page(s): 4396 - 4410.
• Y. Yu, A. Petropulu, H.V. Poor, "MIMO radar using compressive sampling," IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in SP, vol. 4(1), pp. 146 - 163, Feb. 2010.
• L. Dong, Z. Han, A. Petropulu, H.V. Poor, "Improving wireless physical layer security via cooperating relays," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 58(3), Part: 2, pp. 1875 - 1888, 2010.
• Y.Yu, S.Yatawatta and A.P. Petropulu, "A precoded OFDMA system with user cooperation," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2010.
• L. Dong, A.P. Petropulu, and H.V. Poor, "Weighted cooperative beamforming for wireless networks," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 57(8), pp. 3240 - 3252, Aug. 2009.
• X. Yang, T. Camp, H. Yang and A. Petropulu, "Extending network lifetime for ALLIANCES," Computer Communications, accepted in 2009; available at http://authors.elsevier.com/offprints/COMCOM4034/569cd3e5b90e77f961ac14c...
• H. Yang, A.P. Petropulu, X. Yang and T. Camp, "A novel location relay Selection scheme for ALLIANCES," IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, vol. 57(2), pp. 1272 - 1284, March 2008.
• L. Dong and A. P. Petropulu, "Multichannel ALLIANCES: A cross-layer cooperative scheme for wireless networks," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol.56(2), pp. 771 - 784, Feb. 2008.
• Y. Yu, and A.P. Petropulu, "PARAFAC-based blind estimation of possibly underdetermined convolutive MIMO systems," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56(1), pp. 111 - 124, Jan. 2008.
• L. Dong, A.P. Petropulu, V. Poor, "A cross-layer approach to collaborative beamforming for wireless ad hoc networks," IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 56(7), Part 1, pp. 2981 - 2993, July 2008.