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• 2008 - present: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  PhD Student in Electrical Engineering
  Current Grade Point Average (CGPA): 3.82/4.0


• 2008 - 2010: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
  Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA): 3.75/4.0


• 2002 - 2007: University of Patras, Patras, Greece
  Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics
  Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA): 8.95/10 placed 2nd in the Department.

• Panagiotis Triantafyllidis Fellowship - financial support for Greek students studying at US Institutions, 2010 - 2012.
• USC Myronis Fellowship - support with full tuition and stipend for the academic year 2010 - 2011.
• Andreas Metzelopoulos Fellowship - financial support for Greek students studying at US Institutions, 2008 - 2010.
• USC Viterbi's Dean Fellowship - support with full tuition and stipend, 2008 - 2012.
• Clark School of Engineering Distinguished Graduate Fellowship - University of Maryland, College Park, 2008 (Declined).
• Mutual Educational Exchange Grant - Fulbright Institution, 2008 (Declined).
• Distinction & Award by the Greek Women's Engineering Association - for graduating 1st among all women in my class, 2007.
• Honor by University of Patras - for graduating 2nd among the students of two engineering departments, 2007.
• Distinction & Award by the Greek National Scholarship Foundation - for academic performance on undergraduate studies during 2006 - 2007.
• Distinction & Award by the Greek National Scholarship Foundation - for academic performance on undergraduate studies during 2005 - 2006.
• Skoura Foundation Fellowship - for academic performance on undergraduate studies during 2004 - 2005.
• Honor by University of Patras - for admission at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, 2002.

• Member of the Communication Sciences Institute (CSI) at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California (08/08 - present). Advisor: Urbashi Mitra, Professor.
• Member of the Signal Processing & Communications Lab at the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece. Advisor: Kostas Berberidis, Professor (09/06 - 07/08).
• Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Research Unit 6. Advisor: Christos Bouras, Professor (2003 - 2005).
  Subjects: Networked Virtual Environments, Design and Development of 3D Applications.

• Teaching Assistant, "EE 241 - Applied Linear Algebra for Engineering" (Undergraduate Level Course), Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California (Spring Semester 2012).
• Teaching Assistant, "EE 564 - Communication Theory" (Graduate Level Course), Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California (Fall Semester 2011).
• Teaching Assistant, "EE 562a - Random Processes in Engineering" (Graduate Level Course), Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California (Spring Semester 2010).
• Teaching Assistant, "Information Transmitting Systems", Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece (Spring Semester 2008).
• System Administrator, Computer and Communication Systems Center, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece (12/07 - 07/08).
• Teaching Assistant, "Digital Communications", Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece (Fall Semester 2007).
• Teaching Assistant, "Software Laboratory", Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece (Fall Semester 2006, Fall Semester 2007).

• Computer Skills:
  DB Applications: MySQL, MS SQL Server.
  Image Processing Applications: Adobe Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop.
  Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Minix, MS DOS, Linux, Unix, Windows.
  Programming Languages/Libraries: Assembly, Borland Delphi, C, C++, CSS, Flex/Bison, HTML, Java, Javascript, JSP, LaTeX, LEDA, Maple, Matlab, Pascal, PHP, Pic Programming, POSIX Threads, Prolog, Servlets, SQL, UML,XML/XSL.
  VLSI design: Irsim, Hspice, Magic, Spice.
  Web Servers: Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat.
• Languages:
  English (Cambridge First Certificate, Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency, Michigan Certificate of Proficiency, TOEFL).
  French (DELF 1, DELF 2).
  Greek (Native).