Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering, Google Intern (Atlanta, GA)

Objective

A career in machine learning, data analysis, forecasting, analytics

Education

2003-present Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Degree : Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering
Research Area : Digital Signal Processing, Speech Recognition, Statistical modeling of large data volumes
Advisor : Dr. R.W. Schafer, Co-advisor Dr. D.V.Anderson

2001-2003 Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Degree : M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
GPA : 3.5/4.0

1994 - 2000 National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Degree : B.E. in Electrical & Computer Engineering
GPA : 8.18/10
Thesis : "Speech Analysis with Fractals", developed mathematical theory for a special category of fractals
Advisor : Dr. Petros Maragos

Work Experience

Summer 2006 (Intern) Google, Mountain View, CA.
Developed an advanced audio processing system for audio identification used for copyright protection.

Summer 2004 (Intern) Google, Mountain View, CA.
Developed algorithm and implemented software for detection and removal of commercials from tv broadcast data as part of the video Google service : http://video.google.com

Summer 2002 (Intern) Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
Investigated and Tested Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms for separating a speaker from an auditory Scene

1999 - 2000 (Full time) National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Position : Research Assistant for Dr. Petros Maragos. Developed novel features for robust Speech Recognition based on the fractal properties of speech

1997 - 1999 (Part time) Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Position : Research Assistant. Measured and processed temporal and spectral features of a large corpus of spoken Greek language. The rules extracted improved the prosodic quality of a Text To Speech (TTS) synthesizer which ended up to a commercial project

Skills

Programming Skills :10 years experiencewith Matlab, code vectorization, 6 years experience with C++ and template metaprograming , Proficient in Java, Strong Object Oriented Design, design patterns, SPHINX Speech Recognition Toolkit

Honors

2001 - present: Research Scholarship awarded for duration of Ph.D at GA Tech
1997-1999: Two year Research Scholarship awarded by ILSP, Athens
1997: Fellowship for research at Moscow Aviation Institute
1994: Sixth place in Pan-Hellenic Olympiad for Physics
1991: Bronze medal in Olympiad of Russian language, Moscow

Several scientific publications.

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