Last Updated: 07-28-08

Yiannis Spyropoulos

Phone: (858) 822-4389
E-mail: yiannis@ucsd.edu
Office: CalIT2 4405

Mailing Address:
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407

Graduate Advisor:
Prof. James Zeidler, Tel: (858) 534-5369
Email: zeidler@ece.ucsd.edu

Research Interests

Space-time processing for MIMO cellular wireless networks.
Physical- medium-access-control cross-layer design for MIMO ad hoc wireless networks.

Education

Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, since September 2002.
- Preliminary exam passed in August 2005.
- Qualifying exam passed in September 2006.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June 2002.
Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, July 2000.

Publications

I. Spyropoulos and J. R. Zeidler, ``Dynamic Channel Allocation and Space-Time LMMSE Joint Detection in a TDD/CDMA Cellular Network with Traffic Asymmetry,'' Proc. IEEE 65th Veh. Tech. Conf. (VTC), (Dublin, Ireland), Apr. 2007 [.pdf].
I. Spyropoulos and J. R. Zeidler, ``Supporting Asymmetric Traffic in a TDD/CDMA Cellular Network via Interference-Aware Dynamic Channel Allocation and Space-Time LMMSE Joint Detection," accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., June 2008 [.pdf].

Work Experience

ATMEL Berkeley Design Center, Berkeley, CA, Jun-Aug 2002
Summer Technical Intern.
Developed discrete-cosine-transform (DCT) block filtering algorithms in MATLAB for application in acoustic echo-cancellation.
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Jan-Jun 2002
Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Assisted in the instruction of the courses ‘Probabilistic Systems Analysis’ and ‘Introduction to Communication Systems’, leading weekly homework discussions and review sessions.
Luminous Networks, Cupertino, CA, Jul-Sep 2001
Summer Technical Intern.
Performed testing and debugging of the transparent VLAN functionality over a fiber-optic ring packet network. Coded a C program to compute packet metrics at the ring switches.
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Feb-Jul 2000
Diploma Thesis.
Designed and implemented in microstrip technology the IF, RF filters and PA, LNA amplifiers of a 13GHz TDD satellite transceiver. Measured their performance in the lab.
British Telecom Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath, UK, Aug-Oct 1999
Summer Technical Intern.
Implemented a network access server in FreeBSD 3.2. Tested various PPP dial-up access topologies and compared them in terms of IP address space requirements and scalability.

Interests

Tango, sailing, hiking.