Athina Petropulu
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
• 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)
• Great Master, UESTC China (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, IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2005
• 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