Researcher Scientists
 

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