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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers logo
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers logo
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers logo
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Athina Petropulu

Distinguished Professor

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Location

Computing Research & Education Building (CoRE)
96 Frelinghuysen Road, Room 510
Piscataway, NJ 08854

Phone

848-445-0414

Email

athinap@rutgers.edu

Website

http://eceweb1.rutgers.edu/~cspl

Area Of Expertise Statistical Signal Processing, Networking, Radar Systems

Operational Unit Faculty

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