Andreas Polydoros

Andreas D. Polydoros was born in Athens, Greece, in 1954. He received the Diploma in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1977, the M.S.E.E. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Calif, USA, in 1982. He was a faculty member at the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems and the Communication Sciences Institute (CSI), the University of Southern California, in 1982–1997, and has been a Professor since 1992. He codirected CSI in 1991–1993. Since 1997, he has been a Professor and the Director of the Electronics Laboratory, Division of Applied Physics, Department of Physics, University of Athens, Greece. His general areas of scientific interest are statistical communication theory and signal processing with applications to spread-spectrum and multicarrier systems, signal detection and classification in uncertain environments (he is the coinventor of per-survivor processing, granted a US patent in 1995), and multiuser radio networks. He cofounded and currently heads the Technology Advisory Board of Trellis Ware Technologies and also serves on numerous scientific boards of academic nonprofit organizations in Greece and abroad. Professor Polydoros is the recipient of a 1986 US National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 1995, cited for contributions to spreadspectrum systems and networks.

Biography Updated on 8 June 2010

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