FACULTY
Petros Vlachopoulos has a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras and a Ph.D. from Kent State University, USA. He worked as a Research Associate at the University of Patras, as a Teaching Assistant at Kent State University, as a Research Scientist at the Battelle Memorial Institute – Systems Engineering Department, as a Research Engineer at the Institute of Computer Technology, as an Engineer at the Institute of Biomedical Technology, as a Teaching Assistant Professor (407/80) in Information Systems Management at the University of Patras, as a Visiting Professor at TEI Patras and as a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Industrial Systems. He was elected Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of TEI Patras and was Head of the Digital Systems Laboratory. He served as Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering of TEI Patras, member of the Research Committee, Scientific Officer of the Hellenic Chamber of Education of the Foundation, as well as Director of the Centre for Technological Research of Patras. He was Project Manager in operational programs of the Information Society, as well as in the epaek program. He participated in numerous research projects and was a member of the Board of Directors of GUnet. Today he serves as Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Peloponnese.
Dr Labros Bisdounis received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering both from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, in 1992 and 1999, respectively. During his collaboration with the department he participated as a researcher in several European research projects related to VLSI circuits and systems design. From 2000 until mid 2008 he was with the Research and Development Division of Intracom S.A. (Intracom Telecom S.A. since January 2006), Athens, Greece, working as senior research engineer and project manager in European and national research projects regarding the design and development of VLSI circuits and embedded systems for telecom applications. From 2005 until 2007 he was also with the Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece as a lecturer, teaching the Embedded Systems postgraduate course. In 2008, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece (Technological Educational Institute of Patras until August 2013), Patras, as an associate professor and head of the Electronics and Measurements Technology laboratory, and from 2013 until May 2019 he was a full professor at the same department. From September 2010 until October 2015 he was the head of the department, from October 2015 until January 2016 he acted as the deputy president of the institute for finance and infrastructures and from March 2016 until August 2018 he was the dean of the School of Technological Applications of the institute. From 2007 until 2011 as well as from 2018 until today he is also with the School of Science and Technology of the Hellenic Open University as a tutor for undergraduate and postgraduate modules. His main research interest is on various aspects of electronic circuits and systems such as: CMOS circuits timing analysis and power dissipation modeling, MOSFETs modeling, low-power and high-speed electronic circuits and embedded systems design, system-on-chip design, sensor applications. Dr. Bisdounis is an author of more than 30 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, as well as of books and book chapters, teaching notes and technical reports on the above mentioned areas, and has received 680 citations. From 2016 until 2019, he was a Board of Directors member of the Hellenic National Academic Recognition and Information Centre (NARIC). More details can you find in the page: http://econ.uop.gr/~bisdounis
Paris Kitsos is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computers Engineering Department of University of the Peloponnese, and Collaborating Faculty in Industrial Systems Institute (ISI). He has participated in numerous national and international research projects in his area as researcher, designer and programmer. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters, and he has been received more than 1400 non self-citations (according to Google Scholar). His research interests include Hardware Design, AI on FPGAs, Secure Hardware Design, Hardware Implementations for DSP, IoT. His teaching activities are sponsored by Intel and Xilinx.
George Souliotis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Peloponnese, Patras, Greece. He has more than twenty years professional and research experience in analog and mixed signal integrated circuits and systems. His research interests and his experience include low voltage low power integrated circuits, analog filters, communication electronics, high speed transceivers, RF circuits up to 80 GHz for wireless transceivers and others. He has worked for several widely known, multinational high-tech IC companies and has acted or is acting as a consultant in several companies in Greece and abroad. His experience in circuit and system development include USB2, USB3, M-PHY, BLE and other protocols. He is author or co-author of more than 35 papers in high level international journals, of a significant number of conference articles and of two patents. He is acting as a reviewer in more than 10 high level international journals. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Manolis Galetakis is member of Special Technical & Laboratory Staff (STLS) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of the Peloponnese. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Technological Educational Institute of Patras (1998) and a postgraduate degree (Msc) in Electronics and Information Processing from the University of Patras (2012). His scientific and research objects concern Digital Systems Design, Control Networks and Embedded Systems. His professional career starts in 1999 as technical staff in projects of the research committee of the Technological Educational Institute of Patras. In 2001 he joined Atmel working as a Firmware & Embedded Software Engineer in 2008 he worked for Bytemobile as a Senior Software Engineer and in 2013 for Samsung as a senior Embedded Software Engineer. From 2007 to 2016 he worked as a Teaching Associate of the Electrical Engineering Department of TEI of Western Greece teaching courses "Digital Systems Design", "Control Networks", "Digital Systems" and "Microcomputers I".
Andreas Katsaitis is a Laborartory technician that he has received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Electrical Engineering Department of the Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece in 1984. He also holds a certificate from the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece. He has extensive experience in the design, fabrication, maintenance and repair of electronic circuits and systems, as well as of sensor systems, and he has undertaken the technical support of the laboratory, regarding the maintenance and repair of the equipment, as well as the development of electronic training modules. He has also teaching experience in the practical part of the electronics and measurements technology / sensors courses, in which he is contributing as a tutor.
POST-DOC RESEARCHERS
Dr. Ferentinos holds a Diploma, a MSc and and PhD all from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Patras, Greece. His MSc was about “Optimized MPEG-4 texture streaming for 3D graphics QoS” and his PhD was about ”Study and implementation of wavelet-based video coding for dynamic-transmission environments”. His research interests include Efficient architectures and memory management in fluctuating run-time conditions and for reconfigurable systems. Optimizing advanced Multimedia applications and Machine Learning algorithms. Efficient implementations for Embedded Systems.
PhD RESEARCHERS
PhD title: Hardware Implementations of Dictionary Learning Algorithms for Image Processing & Analysis
Lampros Pyrgas holds a Physics degree from University of Ioannina and a MSc in Electronics and Communications from the University of Patras. Currently he is a PHD candidate at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of the Peloponnese and Collaborating Researcher in Industrial Systems Institute (ISI). His research interests include efficient hardware implementations of Cryptographic algorithms, FPGA design of Digital Signal Processing systems and hardware implementations of Dictionary Learning algorithms for Image Processing and Analysis.
PhD title: Efficient Hardware Architectures of Neural Networks
Georgios Flamis is a graduate of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the TEI of Patras. Since 2000 he has been working in the field of microelectronics with emphasis on hardware design of integrated systems in the companies ATMEL, Bluedev, Sitel, Dialog semiconductors. Over the years, he has gained experience designing products and supporting them in the global market.
PhD title: Hardware Design for Multi-modal Sensor Data Acquisition and Processing
Stavros holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and a MSc in Pervasive Computing from the Hellenic Open University, in 2009 and 2015 respectively. He has research experience with embedded systems and Internet of Things projects on data acquisition, computer vision for object, blob and color detection, exploiting various sensor technologies. His research interests include Hardware Accelerators, Wireless Sensor Networks and Software Defined Radio. He is also an open source hardware advocate and a tech meetup organizer. He has many years of experience working in the IT industry as an engineer. Currently, he works as an external IT Expert at European Commission. More information about his activities you can find at https://stavros.github.io.
PhD title: Security of Cloud FPGAs
Marios holds an Informatics degree and a MSc in Mobile and Pervasive Computing Systems both from Hellenic Open University. His main research areas are Embedded Systems, FPGA Systems, Communication Networks, IoT Technologies and Automation with microcontrolers, Object Oriented Programming, Open and Distance Learning, and Multimedia Programming. He is a certified adult educator, and holds an annual pedagogical competence of ASPAITE. From November 1997 until 2004 he was responsible of the Informatics Department of the Foundation of the Hellenic World.
PhD title: Analog Integrated Circuits for Low-consumption Systems
Rafailia Malatesta graduated with a B.Sc. from the Department of Physics, University of Patras, in September 2019. She received her M.Sc. in “Applications of Physics in Atmosphere and Electronics” with a specialization in “Electronics-Circuits and Systems” in February 2021, at Physics Department of the University of Patras. The title of her M.Sc. Thesis is “Design of fractional-order controller for motion control systems”. Currently she is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Peloponnese, Patras. Her main research interests are focused on the design and applications of Analog Integrated Circuits for signal processing.
PhD title: Brain rhythm data retrieval system
Konstantinos Retsinas graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece in 2020. He works in the field of electronic applications while at the same time he is a PhD candidate at the University of Peloponnese. His research interests focus on the field of analog and mixed signal design for signal retrieval and processing.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Research Interests: FPGA Design, Secure Hardware Design
Research Interests: FPGA Design, Secure Hardware Design