Faculty

    Athina P. Petropulu

    athina_AT_ece.drexel.edu

    Tel: (215) 895-2358
    Fax: (215) 895-1695
    E-mail: athina_AT_ece.drexel.edu

    Dr. Athina P. Petropulu was born in Kalamata Greece. She received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1986, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1991 both from Northeastern University, Boston.

    She joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Drexel University in 1992, where she is now a Professor. She held visiting appointments at SUPEREL, France, during the academic year 1999-2000, and Princeton University, during the academic year 2007-2008.

    She is the coauthor (with C.L. Nikias) of the textbook Higher-Order Spectra Analysis: a Nonlinear Signal Processing Framework, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1993. Her research interests span the area of statistical signal processing, communications, Higher-Order Spectra analysis, image/speech processing and biomedical engineering. In 1995 she received the Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) Award and the Whitaker Foundation Award.

    Dr. Petropulu is a Fellow of the IEEE. She has served as member-at-large of the IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors and member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods. She is currently VP Conferences of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. She has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. She was the General Chair of the 2005 International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-05 that was held in Philadelphia PA in May 2005. She is the co-recipient of the 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine best paper award.

    Dr. Petropulu is a member of Sigma Xi, the Technical Chamber of Greece and the Greek Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.