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Christos Boukis- Research Scientist

CONTACT INFORMATION
Address: Athens Information Technology, Markopoulo
Ave., Peania/Athens 19002, Greece
Telephone: (+30) 210 6682802
Fax: (+30) 210 6682703
E-mail: cbou@ait.edu.gr
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Marital Status: Single
Nationality: Greek
Date of Birth: 28.02.1975
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
September 2005 – Present Co-teaching “Programming & Data Structures” and
“Artificial Intelligence Lab” courses at MSITT graduate program and “Advanced
Digital Signal Processing” at MSIN graduate program, Athens Information
Technology
January 2002- May 2002 Lab demonstrator of the digital filters course of
the MSc in communications and signal processing, Communications and Signal
Processing Group, Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Imperial
College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London
October 2001 - January 2002 Lab demonstrator for the M-ary Shift Keying (MSK)
modulation experiments of the undergraduate course in telecommunications
,Communications and Signal Processing Group, Department of Electronic and
Electrical Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine,
University of London
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
October 2003 PhD in Digital Signal Processing, Imperial College of
Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK. Thesis Title:
“Digital signal processing structures and algorithms for feedback control”.
October 1999 MSc in Electronic Automation with specialisation in
informatics and information systems, University of Athens, Greece
October 1997 BSc in Physics, University of Athens
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
November 2005 Introduction to Active Noise Control, PROSTO Project
March 2006 Hierarchical Filters: A new approach to distributed
processing, Communications and Signal Processing Group, Imperial College,
London.
March 2006 An Overview of Dereverberation Techniques, Athens Information
Technology
March 2006 BEST Seminars: Introduction to Acoustics for Smart Spaces
September 2006 Active Noise Control: An Indirect Approach for Noise
Reduction, Athens Information Technology
October 2006 Voice Activity Detection: Identifying the Presence of speech
within Audio Recordings, Athens Information Technology
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
- A Novel Algorithm for the Adaptation of the Poles of
Laguerre Filters”, C.G. Boukis, D.P. Mandic, A.G.
Constantinides and L.C. Polymenakos, IEEE Signal Processing
Letters, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, volume 13, issue 7,
pages 429 – 432, June 2006
- Bias cancellation in acoustic feedback cancellation
systems with varying all-pass filters”, C. Boukis, D. Mandic
and A.G. Constantinides, IEE Electronics Letters, volume 42,
issue 9, pages 556 – 558, April 2006
- Towards bias minimization in feedback cancellation
systems”, C. Boukis, D. Mandic and A.G. Constantinides,
Journal of acoustical society of America (Accepted for
publication)
CONFERENCES
- Insights into the hierarchical gradient descent
algorithm”, C.G.Boukis, D.P.Mandic and A.G.Constantinides,
Proceedings of the IEE on Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian Signal
Processing, N2SP, Peebles, Hotel Hydro, 8-9 July 2002.
- A hierarchical feedforward adaptive filter for system
identification”, C.G.Boukis, D.P.Mandic and
A.G.Constantinides, In 11th IEEE workshop on Neural Networks
for Signal Processing, 2002.
- Fully adaptive neural nonlinear FIR filters”, W.C.Siaw,
S.L.Goh, A.I.Hanna, C.G.Boukis and D.P.Mandic, In 11th IEEE
workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, 2002.
- A global gradient descent algorithm for hierarchical FIR
adaptive filters”, C.G.Boukis and D.P.Mandic, In 14th
International Conference on DSP, 2002.
- A gradient adaptive step size algorithm for IIR filters”,
C.G.Boukis, D.P.Mandic, E.V.Papoulis and A.G.Constantinide,
In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and
Signal Processing, 2003.
- A normalized mixed-norm adaptive filtering algorithm
robust under impulsive noise interference”, D.P.Mandic,
E.V.Papoulis and C.G.Boukis, In IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2003.
- A normalized adaptive amplitude nonlinear gradient
descent algorithm for system identification”, C.G.Boukis and
E.V.Papoulis, In 10th IEEE International Conference on
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2003.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- An online method for detecting nonlinearity within
a signal”, B.Jelfs, C. Boukis, M. Chen, T. Gautama, P.
Vayanos, T. Rutkowski and D. Mandic, Knowledge-Based
Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Lecture
Notes on Artificial Intelligence, volume 4253, pages
1216 – 1223, Springer 2006
- Using hierarchical filters to detect sparseness
within unknown channels”, C. Boukis and L. Polymenakos,
, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and
Engineering Systems, Lecture Notes on Artificial
Intelligence, volume 4253, pages 1216 – 1223, Springer
2006
ADDITIONAL INNFORMATION
REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES IEEE Circuits and Systems II, IEE Proceedings on radar,
sonar and navigation, Interspeech 2006, 10th
international conference on knowledge-based &
Intelligent information and engineering systems, ICC
2007 Signal Processing for Communications Symposium.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Adaptive signal processing
- Nonlinear signal processing
- Room acoustics modelling
- Acoustic feedback cancellation
- Hierarchical Structures
- Voice Activity Detection
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