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 Stochastic Optimization problems in Communications and Signal Processing under the guidance of Professor Urbashi Mitra.

My research interests lie in the scientific areas of Communications and Signal Processing. Specifically, I focus on the design, development and analysis of algorithms in these areas.

In my free time, I like listening to music, watching movies, traveling (a lot!) and drawing.