Thanasis Koutras
Assistant Professor in Πάτρα, Ελλάδα
Thanasis Koutras
Assistant Professor in Πάτρα, Ελλάδα
I was born on 11 of November 1973 in Athens, Greece. In 1996 I received my Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineer from the Polytechnic School of Patras and my PhD Diploma in 2001 from the same Department. My PhD Thesis title was "Blind speech separation and speech recognition in a multisimultaneous speaker environment". Since 2003 after having served the Greek Army I have worked with the Technical Educational Institute of Patras as an Adjunct Professor until 2008 and since then as an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Informatics and Mass Media. My teaching experience includes the area of Digital Sound and Image Processing. I have also worked as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Cultural Management & New Technologies of University of Ioannina from 2005-2008. Since 2008 I hold a position as a Visiting Professor at the Medical School of Patras, Department of Physiology, NeuroPhysiology Unit. I have worked as a researcher in more than 10 R&D Projects with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineer at the University of Patras as well as the Medical School of Patras in collaboration with the RIKEN Institute in Japan (Human Brain Dynamics Lab). I have authored more than 30 research scientific papers in journals as well as Conference Proceedings in the area of Digital Signal Processing, Biomedical Signal Processing, Blind Source Separation, Speech Recognition, Pattern Recognition, EEG and MEG data analysis. I am currently a member of IEEE, ENNS, ISCA and TCG and the Editor in Chief of the Advances in Signal Processing Journal, of the HRPUB.