Sergios Theodoridis is Professor Emeritus with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications and he is the Director of the NKUA Press. He has been awarded with the 2021 Norbert Wiener Award from the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (IEEE) Signal Processing Society “for seminal contributions to leadership, research and education in signal processing”. The Norbert Wiener Award is the Society’s highest honor. It recognizes outstanding technical contributions in a field within the scope of the Signal Processing Society and outstanding leadership within that field. The awardee is expected to deliver the Norbert Wiener Lecture at the 2022 flagship ICASSP (International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing) Conference, to be held in Singapore.
Prof. Theodoridis is the author of the book “Machine Learning: A Bayesian and Optimization Perspective” Academic Press, 2nd Ed., 2020, (which is translated into Japanese) the co-author of the best-selling book “Pattern Recognition”, Academic Press, 4th ed., 2009, which has been translated into Chinese and Greek, the co-author of the book “Introduction to Pattern Recognition: A MATLAB Approach”, Academic Press, 2010, which has been translated into Korean and Greek, the co-editor of the book “Efficient Algorithms for Signal Processing and System Identification”, Prentice Hall 1993, and the co-author of three books in Greek, two of them for the Greek Open University.
He has extensively published in the most prestigious journals and conferences in the signal processing discipline. Seven of his papers have received Best Paper Awards including the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award and the 2009 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award.
He is, also, the recipient of a number of prestigious awards including the 2017 European Association for Signal and Image Processing (EURASIP) Athanasios Papoulis Award, the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing (SP) Education Award and the 2014 EURASIP Meritorious Service Award. He currently holds a part time Distinguished Professor Chair with Aalborg University, Denmark, and he is also affiliated with the Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE SP as well as the Circuits and Systems Societies. He has served as Otto Monstead Guest Professor, Technical University of Denmark, 2012, he was the holder of the Excellence Chair, Dept. of Signal Processing and Communications, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, 2011. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the flagship IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing journal, Vice-President IEEE SP Society and President of EURASIP.
He is Fellow of IET, a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), a Fellow of EURASIP and a Life Fellow of IEEE.