Athina Petropulu

Professor

Office:   Bossone 413b

Phone:  +1 215 895 2358

Homepage: http://www.ece.drexel.edu/CSPL

E-mail: athina@ece.drexel.edu


DegreesDiploma in Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1986.
M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1988 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1991, both from Northeastern University, Boston.
ResearchStatistical signal processing; blind system identification; blind MIMO system estimation; wireless communication networks; blind channel estimation; multi-user separation; cooperative cross-layer approaches; applications of signal processing in biomedical problems.
BioAthina 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. In September 1992 she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University, where she is now a Professor. During the academic year 1999-2000 she was an Associate Professor at SUPELEC France, and during the academic year 2006-2007 a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University.

Her research interests include statistical signal processing and wireless communication networks, especially blind channel estimation, multi-user separation, and cooperative cross-layer approaches. She also considers applications of signal processing in biomedical problems. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the US Army, the Whitaker Foundation and the National Institute of Health. She is the recipient of the 1995 Presidential Faculty Fellow Award in Electrical Engineering given by NSF and the White House. She is the co-recipient of the 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award.

Dr. Petropulu is an IEEE Fellow. She is currently serving as Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011). She was IEEE Signal Processing Society Vice President-Conferences (2006-2008), and also member-at-large of the IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors. She is member of the IEEE SPS Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee, and has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. She was the General Chair of the 2005 International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) that was held in Philadelphia.
LabCommunications and Signal Processing Laboratory
Lab DescriptionThe CSPL group conducts mostly theoretical research in the area of statistical signal processing, with emphasis on system modeling. Applications of interest include wireless communications, networking and biomedical engineering.