Alexandros Potamianos
Associate Professor
National Technical University of Athens
Short Bio:
| Alexandros Potamianos received the Diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1990, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering sciences from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Senior Technical Staff Member with AT&T Shannon Labs, Florham Park, NJ. From 1999 to 2002, he was a Technical Staff Member and Technical Supervisor with Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ. From 2003 to 2013, he served as an associate professor at the Department of ECE, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece. Since 2013, he serves as an associate professor at the School of ECE, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He is also a visiting professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, CA and an Amazon Scholar. He has authored or coauthored over 200 papers in professional journals and conferences, and holds five patents. His current research interests include foundation models. speech processing, dialog and multimodal systems, natural language understanding, machine learning and multimodal child-computer interaction. Prof. Potamianos has served multiple terms at the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee and Multimedia Technical Committee. He received a 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He is an IEEE fellow, an International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) fellow and a fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). |
