Athina Petropulu
Distinguished Professor
Research Interests
• Statistical signal processing - system identification; MIMO system estimation; blind source separation
• Networking - cooperative protocols for wireless networks; physical layer security
• Radar systems - compressive sensing-based MIMO radars, spectrum sharing between radar and communication system, dual-function radar communication systems
Honors
- AAAS Fellow
- IEEE Fellow
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award (2024)
- IEEE Machine Learning For Signal Processing (MLSP) Workshop Best Student Paper Award (S. Evmorfos) (2023)
- IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize (2023)
- Technical Program co-Chair, 2023 IEEE Int. Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal 2023 Processing (ICASSP), Kos, Greece
- President, IEEE Signal Processing Society (2022-2023)
- IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize (2023)
- IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop Best Student Paper Award (Y. Li) (2022)
- Member of Governing Council, University of Peloponnese, Greece (2022-present)
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (F. Liu) (2021)
- Barry Carlton Best Paper Award, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (2021)
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (B. Li) (2020)
- Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society (2019- 2020)
- Member-at-Large, IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors (2018-2019)
- Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2017-2018)
- General Co-Chair, IEEE Int. Workshops on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2018
- IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (2012)
- Editor-In-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011)
- IEEE Signal Processing Society VP Conferences (2006-2009)
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award (2005)
- Member-at-Large, IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors (2004-2005)
- General Chair, 2005 IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
- Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (The White House / NSF), 1995
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