Kostas Angelopoulos

Academic Laboratory Teaching Staff and Researcher
Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications
University of Peloponnese

About Me

Hello! I am Kostas Angelopoulos. I am a teaching staff member of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications (DIT), of the University of Peloponnese (UoP) in Greece, conducting lectures and lab courses covering the general area of signal processing and telecommunications.

I am also, a researcher and member of the Signal and Image Prosessing Laboratory of the affiliated department.

kaggelop(at)uop.gr

Phone

+30-2710372281

Address

Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications
(Old building, office A4), Academician Vlachou, 22131, Tripolis, Greece

Work Experience

Teaching Staff - EDIP at Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese

November, 2008 - Present

Teaching staff member (Academic Laboratory Teacher) conducting theory lectures and laboratory courses covering topics in signal processing and telecommunications both for the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum.

Researcher at Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese (Special Account for Research Fund)

April, 2012 - Present

Research team member of a series of competitive, EU and EU/GR funded research projects, as doctoral and post-PhD researcher and associate Scientific Coordinator of UoP affiliated teams.

Software Designer/IP author at Intracom Telecom

August, 2004 - August, 2008

Software designer and Implementation Proposal author at the telecommunication solutions company Intracom Telecom, tasked with the design and implementation of applications for handling telecom traffic and services on the MSC/VLR server system of Ericsson Gmbh (covering GSM, W-CDMA and wireline networks).

Electromechanical Infrastructure Engineer at Hellenic Airforce

July, 2002 - February, 2004

Hellenic Airforce Reserve Officer, 2nd Lieutenant - during mandatory military service - serving as designing engineer, construction supervising engineer and operations engineer of electromechanical installations and medium voltage substations of the Hellenic Airforce bases of operation '124 Basic Training Wing', Tripolis and '130 Combat Group', Limnos.

Education

Doctoral degree on Informatics and Telecommunications from University of Peloponnese

February 2016

University of Peloponnese, Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications: PhD dissertation on "Modern Methods for Spectral Estimation", focusing on the study, analysis and derivation of efficient algorithms for the implementation of a series of high quality, adaptive, filter-bank methods for power and coherence spectrum estimation.

Integrated Master on Electrical and Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

March 2002

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Engineering, Dept. Of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Integrated Master (5 yr study Diploma) in Engineering from the affiliated departement with specialization in telecommunications and final thesis investigating the use of the "Harmonics plus Noise model" for deployment in Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis systems.

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

Image Processing: Principles, Algorithms and Applications

2017 - Present

Specialization elective course. Theory lectures and lab exercises covering topics on image analysis and processing

Mathematics III

2017 - Present

Mandatory course. Theory lectures on topics covering 1st and 2nd order differential equations (DE), higher order DE, Laplace transform, Taylor series and other

Digital Signal Processing

2016 - 2017

Specialization core course. Theory lectures and exercises covering topics on discrete signals and systems and digital signal processing

Postgraduate courses

Digital Signal Processing

2016 - 2017

Mandatory course. Theory lectures and exercises covering topics on discrete signals and systems and digital signal processing

Laboratory courses

Signals and Systems

2009 - Present

Mandatory, core lab course, complementary of the theory lectures of the corresponding core course. Hands on implementation of exercises in MatLab environment covering several aspects of the signal and systems course curriculum.

Principles of Telecommunication Systems

2014 - Present

Mandatory, core lab course, complementary of the theory lectures of the corresponding core course. Lab exercises in MatLab/Simulink simulation environments as well as on lab-kits with auxiliary hardware covering introductory telecommunication system topics.

Digital Signal Processing

2009 - Present

Optional lab course, complementary of the theory lectures of the corresponding specialization core course. Hands on implementation of exercises in MatLab environment covering topics on the analysis of discrete signals and systems.

Stochastic Signal Processing

2009 - Present

Optional lab course, complementary of the theory lectures of the corresponding specialization elective course. Selected problems' solution and application development with the use of software and hardware.

Adaptive Signal Processing

2012 - 2018

Programming II

2013 and 2015

Optional lab course, complementary of the theory lectures of the corresponding core course. Programming exercises in C covering several topics of the corresponding course's curriculum (e.g. dynamic memory allocation, structures, lists, files).

Digital Signal Processors

2008 - 2009

Optional lab course, complementary of the theory lectures of the corresponding elective course. System simulation and dsp hardware targeting (C6713DSK, DaVince series dsp starter kits) with the use of Simulink, TI CCS and auxiliary hardware (audio equipment, signal generators, oscilloscopes, cameras).

Projects

MERLON H2020 - Grant agreement ID: 824386

Jan 2019 - Dec 2021 | Budget: € 7.551.058,75 | Role: research team member

Introduction of an integrated modular local energy management framework for the holistic operational optimisation of local energy systems in presence of high shares of volatile distributed renewable energy sources.

BIMERR H2020 - Grant agreement ID: 8206216

Jan 2019 - Sep 2022 | Budget: € 6.933.320,75 | Role: research team member

Design and development of an ICT-enabled Renovation 4.0 toolkit comprising tools for Architecture, Engineering & Construction stakeholder support throughout the energy efficiency renovation process of existing buildings.

ESTHISIS GR/EU - MIS: 5030516

Jul 2018 - Jun 2022 | Budget: € 972.715,00 | Role: research team member and UoP team Associate Scientific Coordinator

Study and development of a low cost and low energy, wireless sensor system for the immediate detection of leaks in metallic piping systems, for the transport of liquid and gaseous, petroleum products in a noisy, industrial environment.

PROTOMI GR/EU - MIS: 377322

Apr 2012 - Nov 2015 | Budget: € 587.664,00 | Role: research team member and project admin support

Study of techniques of optical transmission combined with optical and electronic equalization in order to implement backbone networks with extremely low cost per transmitted bit, and development of optical and electronic components to ensure low cost optical networks.

Publications

[J.1] Angelopoulos, K., Glentis, G. O., & Jakobsson, A. (2013). Computationally efficient sparsity-inducing coherence spectrum estimation of complete and non-complete data sets. Signal processing, 93(5), 1221-1234.

[J.2] Angelopoulos, K., Glentis, G. O., & Jakobsson, A. (2012). Computationally efficient Capon-and APES-based coherence spectrum estimation. IEEE transactions on signal processing, 60(12), 6674-6681.

[C.1] De Wit, J., Angelopoulos, K., Kalkman, J., & Glentis, G. O. (2021, July). Axial super-resolution for optical coherence tomography with the iterative adaptive approach. Accepted for presentation at the European conferences on Biomedical Optics 2021 conference.

[C.2] De Wit, J., Angelopoulos, K., Kalkman, J., & Glentis, G. O. (2021, July). Axial super-resolution for optical coherence tomography with the iterative adaptive approach. Accepted for presentation at the 2021 OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress.

[C.3] Angelopoulos, K., & Glentis, G. O. (2021, July). Performance assessment of correlation methods for the velocity estimation of vibro-acoustic signals propagating in fluid-filled pipelines. Accepted for presentation at the 2021 international conference on MOdern Circuits And Systems Technologies (MOCAST), IEEE.

[C.4] Glentis, G. O., Georgoulaki, K., & Angelopoulos, K. (2021, May). Efficient selection of time domain features for leakage detection in pipes carrying liquid commodities. Accepted for presentation at the 2021 IEEE I2MTC – International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference.

[C.5] Glentis, G. O., & Angelopoulos, K. (2021, May). Sound velocity measurement in acoustic leak noise correlation systems. Accepted for presentation at the 2021 IEEE I2MTC – International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference.

[C.6] Glentis, G. O., Georgoulaki, K., & Angelopoulos, K. (2020, November). Leak detection in the pipeline network of an oil refinery-A pattern classification paradigm. In 24th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (pp. 178-182).

[C.7] Angelopoulos, K., & Glentis, G. O. (2020, November). Test and measurement assisted leak vibration signal analysis for leakages in metallic pipelines. In 24th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (pp. 214-218).

[C.8] Glentis, G. O., Angelopoulos, K., Nikolaidis, S., Kousiopoulos, G. P., Porlidas, D., & Gkountis, D. (2019, November). Study of the acoustic noise in pipelines carrying oil products in a refinery establishment. In Proceedings of the 23rd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (pp. 34-41).

[C.9] Glentis, G. O., & Angelopoulos, K. (2019, November). Leakage detection using leak noise correlation techniques: overview and implementation aspects. In Proceedings of the 23rd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (pp. 50-57).

[C.10] Angelopoulos, K., & Glentis, G. O. (2019, November). Time difference of arrival estimation using correlation-based methods: experimental validation via acoustic signal propagation. In 2019 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics & Telecommunications (PACET) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

[C.11] Glentis, G. O., Georgoulakis, K., & Angelopoulos, K. (2015, June). Dispersion compensation of fiber links using pruned volterra equalizers. In Photonic Networks and Devices (pp. JM3A-7). Optical Society of America.

[C.12] Glentis, G. O., Georgoulakis, K., & Angelopoulos, K. (2014, July). Adaptive channel identification in optical fiber communication systems. In 2014 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

[C.13] Glentis, G. O., Jakobsson, A., & Angelopoulos, K. (2014, May). Block-recursive IAA-based spectral estimates with missing samples using data interpolation. In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 350-354). IEEE.

[C.14] Glentis, G. O., Jakobsson, A., & Angelopoulos, K. (2013, May). Time-updating IAA-based spectral estimates with missing samples using data interpolation. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (pp. 6205-6209). IEEE.

[C.15] Angelopoulos, K., Glentis, G. O., & Jakobsson, A. (2012, August). Efficient time recursive coherence spectrum estimation. In 2012 Proceedings of the 20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) (pp. 425-429). IEEE.

[C.16] Angelopoulos, K., Glentis, G. O., & Jakobsson, A. (2011, July). Efficient Implementation of the IAA-based magnitude squared coherence estimator. In 2011 17th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Administrative duties

University Senate member at University of Peloponnese

September, 2014 - September, 2016

Member of the Senate of the University of Peloponnese as elected representative of the Laboratory Teaching Staff of the University.

Department's Assembly member at Dept. of Telecommunications Science and Technology, UoP

January, 2009 - September, 2013

Member of the Assembly of the Department of Telecommunications Science and Technology of the University of Peloponnese as elected representative of the Laboratory Teaching Staff of the department.

Miscellaneous administrative duties at University of Peloponnese

November, 2008 - today

Regular or substitute member of several committees for running procurement processes, job applicant selection, subcontracted services surervsion and academic oriented assignment undertaking like exam supervision management, the Student's Handbook editing, department's ext. evaluation findings post-processing, etc.

Commissioned Officer at Hellenic Airforce

July, 2002 - February, 2004

Cadet officer and officer in command of personnel with security duties, fiscal management assignments, equipment and infrastructure servicing and procurement duties and other.

Contact

+30-2710372281

kaggelop@uοp.gr

Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications,

(Old building, office A4), Academician Vlachou,

22131, Tripolis, Greece