Sergios Theodoridis is Professor Emeritus of Signal Processing and Machine Learning with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He has also served as Distinguished Professor with the Aalborg University, Denmark.

 

He is the author of the book “Machine Learning: From the Classics to Deep Networks, Transformers and Diffusion Models”, Academic Press, 3rd Ed., 2025, the co-author of the best-selling book “Pattern Recognition”, Academic Press, 4th Ed. 2009, the co-author of the book “Introduction to Pattern Recognition: A MATLAB Approach”, Academic Press, 2010, and the co-author of three books in Greek.

 

He is the co-author of seven papers that have received Best Paper Awards including the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award and the 2009 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award.

 

He has received an honorary doctorate degree (D.Sc) from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 2023. He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Norbert Wiener Award—the Society’s highest honour, the 2017 EURASIP Athanasios Papoulis Award, the 2014 IEEE SPS Carl Friedrich Gauss Education Award, and the 2014 EURASIP Meritorious Service Award. He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE SP as well as the Circuits and Systems Societies.

 

He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the flagship journal IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, as Vice President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, as President of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), and as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society.

 

He is Fellow of IET, an International Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), a Fellow of EURASIP and a Life Fellow of IEEE.