Professor Georgios Kouroupetroglou holds a B.Sc. in physics and a Ph.D. in Communications and Signal Processing. He is regular member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea), Fellow member της Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (ΑΑΙΑ), past President of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE), founder of the "Accessibility Unit" National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and founder of the Speech and Accessibility Research Laboratory. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, Director of Postgraduate Studies and PhD Studies, Director of the "Communication & Signal Processing Division", as well as founder and Director of the M.Sc. Programme in "Language Technology". His research interests include Voice Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Accessibility and Computer based Assistive Technologies, as part of the major domains of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction, with emphasis in:
- Digital Accessibility,
- Voice Processing: Analysis and Synthesis of Speech and Singing,
- Information Systems/Services and Assistive Technologies for Disabled and Elderly People,
- Spoken Dialogue Human Computer Interaction,
- Computer Mediated Interpersonal Alternative Communication,
- Accessibility of Documents (books, texts, journals, newspapers),
- Accessibility of Mathematics,
- VoiceWeb & Voice Agents,
- Music Computing: Virtual Musical Instruments and Byzantine Chanting Analysis & Synthesis,
- Gesture- and Haptic- based User Interfaces,
- Information Technologies for Interactive Learning.
Professor Kouroupetroglou has actively participated in a significant number of European Union funded and National research projects. He has been reviewer/evaluator and member of working groups/technical panels of various European Union's projects/programs. He is author of more than 185 scientific papers in journals/conference proceedings and numerous books and technical reports in the fields of his interest. He teaches the courses: "Digital Accessibility and computer-based Assistive Technology", "Computer and Web Accessibility" and "Sensor-based Application Development". He has taught "Voice User Interfaces", "Speech and Natural Language Processing", "Signals and Systems", "Real Time Digital Signal Processing Systems", "Computer Systems and e-Accessibility for Students with Disabilities", "Human Computer Interaction-Voice Technologies", , "Computer Interfaces with the Analog World", "Real Time Systems", "Informatics in Rehabilitation", and "Advanced Assistive Technologies".
Contact
Speech and Accessibility Laboratory,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
Panepistimioupolis, Ilissia,
GR-15784 Athens, Greece
tel: +30 2107275305
e-mail: koupe
di.uoa.grURL: speech.di.uoa.gr
