Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming

Positions

Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rice University, USA.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, CERN, Switzerland.
Graduate Technical Intern, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, USA.
Graduate Researcher, Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland.
Graduate Researcher, Telecommunications Laboratory, Technical University of Crete, Greece.

Research Visits

Cornell University, VLSI Information Processing Group (hosted by Christoph Studer)
University of California, Irvine, Wireless Systems and Circuits Laboratory (hosted by Ahmed Eltawil)

Funding

Main Author
"Machine Learning for Communications," Swiss NSF #182621 (PI: Andreas Burg)
"Gbps Decoders for Polar Codes in 5G Networks," Swiss NSF #169443 (PI: Andreas Burg)

Contributing Author
"Efficient ASICs for Decoding Polar Codes," Swiss NSF #149447 (PI: Andreas Burg)
"Full-Duplex Radio, Theory and Experiments," Swiss NSF #146753 (PI: Andreas Burg)

Other Funding
Swiss NSF grant for a research visit to Cornell University
NVIDIA Titan Xp GPU Grant
Hasler Foundation travel funding to attend the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers

Teaching Experience

Lecturer
Linear systems, signals & control (premaster course, TU/e)

Guest Lecturer
Lecture Series Artificial Intelligence (BSc course, Johannes Kepler University Linz), "Machine Learning for Signal Processing in Communications" [slides, video]
Intelligent Architectures (MSc course, TU/e)

Teaching Assistant
Wireless Receivers: Algorithms and Architectures (MSc course, EPFL)
Advanced Wireless Receivers: Algorithms and Architectures (MSc course, EPFL)
Introduction to Optimization Theory (MSc course, TUC)
Wireless Communications (BSc course, TUC)
Digital Telecommunication Systems I (BSc course, TUC)
Digital Telecommunication Systems II (BSc course, TUC)
Sound and Music Processing (BSc course, TUC)

Student Supervision

Ms. Sitian Li, PhD student at EPFL
Thesis: Machine learning for communications
Mr. Orion Afisiadis, PhD student at EPFL
Thesis: Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers
Mr. Reza Ghanaatian, PhD student at EPFL
Thesis: Energy-effcient wireless communications circuits through approximate computing
Ms. Heshani Niyagama Gamage, visiting PhD student (from University of Oulu, Finland)
Mr. Mohammad Rowshan, visiting PhD student (from Monash University, Australia)

Ms. Vivian Papadopoulou, Erasmus trainee
Project: channel code design for URLLC systems
Mr. Ning Xu, research intern (from the China Academy of Space Technology, Xi'an)
Project: Neural networks for joint detection and decoding
Mr. Andreas Kristensen, MSc exchange student (from Technical University of Denmark)
Thesis: A flexible hardware accelerator for neural networks
Mr. Yann Kurzo, MSc student at EPFL
Thesis: FPGA implementation of a neural network self-interference canceller
Ms. Tijana Stojkovic, MSc student at EPFL
Project: Hardware implementation of an LSTM neural network
Mr. Michiel Van Beirendonck, MSc exchange student (from KU Leuven) at EPFL
Project: FPGA implementation of a Vertcoin miner
Mr. Guillaume Jaume & Mr. Matthieu Cotting, MSc students at EPFL
Project: LoRa PHY implementation & analysis
Ms. Cristina Teodorescu, MSc student at EPFL
Project: A low-power look-up table based LDPC decoder
Mr. Johannes Wüthrich, BSc student at EPFL
Project: An FPGA-based accelerator for rapid simulation of SC polar decoders
Mr. Orion Afisiadis, MSc student at EPFL
Thesis: A low-complexity improved successive cancellation decoder for polar codes
Ms. Hamedeh Jafari, MSc student at EPFL
Project: Exploiting the error-resilience of polar decoders under unreliable silicon

Professional Service

Editorial Service
Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Letters
Lead Editor, IEEE COMSOC Best Readings in Polar Coding
Guest Editor, IEEE COMSOC Best Readings in Machine Learning in Communications

Technical Committee Memberships
IEEE SPS Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee

Conference Chair
Publicity Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS)
Web Chair, IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Video Everywhere (VidEv)

Special Session Organizer
"Machine Learning for Channel Coding," Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
"Practical Machine-Learning-Aided Communications Systems," IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS)

Program Committee Member
IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS)
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Full-Duplex Communications Workshop
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM): Workshop on ML for Wireless Communications
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)

Journal Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
IEEE Access
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Springer Journal of Signal Processing Systems

Conference Reviewer
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processnig (ICASSP)
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)
IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)
IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing (ISTC)
IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)

Public Outreach
Tour guide at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN)