Vassilis Katsouros
Vassilis Katsouros is Research Director at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center (ATHENA RC) and Director of ILSP since June 2019. He received his M.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1992. In 1993 he obtained the M.Sc. with distinction in Communications and Signal Processing from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK. In 1997 he received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematical modelling and Stochastic Control from Imperial College. Since 1998 he has been working at the ILSP. He was among the founding members of LibrisTech, the first spin-off company of ILSP. He is member of the Board at Athena Research Center since 2017 and member of the Board at the Information Society S.A since June 2019. He has coordinated several research and innovation projects at national and European frameworks. His research interests involve digital signal processing, statistics analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence with applications in a wide variety of signals and data (document, voice, music, image, video, sensorial data, etc.) He has authored a significant number of scientific publications in the above fields in books, scientific journals and international conferences. He is member at the IEEE, the ACM, and the Technical Chamber of Greece. Since 1999 he is a certified market maker/trader of the Derivatives Market at the Athens Exchange.