about me

My name is Daphney - Stavroula Zois and I come from Patras, a city located 215 kilometres west of Athens, the capital of Greece. I was born in London, United Kingdom in 10/13/1984 but I didn't stay there very long.

I finished elementary school, high school and senior high school in Patras and in 2002, I was accepted in the Computer Engineering & Informatics Department ranked 13^th among 230 participants. For my diploma thesis, I worked on channel estimation algorithms using 'hidden' training sequence under the supervision of professor Kostas Berberidis. I graduated in October 2007 with GPA 8.95 / 10.00 ranked 2^nd among 230 students and I was accepted at the inter - departmental graduate MSc program Signal Processing and Communication Systems of the Computer Engineering & Informatics Department (1^st among 18 participants). During my first year as an MSc student, I was a member of the Signal Processing & Communications Laboratory. In August 2008, I joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Southern California as a PhD student. Since then, I work on subjects concerning activity recognition under the guidance of Professor Urbashi Mitra.

My research interests lie in the scientific area of Telecommunications / Wireless Communications but also in the area of Signal, Speech & Image Processing. However, I am also very interested in the field of Operating Systems. Finally, I like programming very much.

Beyond computers which are my greatest love, my free time is full of music, cinema, voyages, reading books, cart - postal collection and painting (especially comics).