Dr. Thanos Stouraitis is currently a Professor of the ECE Dept. at the University of Patras. He directs the graduate studies program on Digital Signal Processing Systems based at the University of Patras. He has served as a member of the Administrative Committee of the University of Sterea Hellas in Greece. He has served on the faculties of The Ohio State University, the University of Florida, and Polytechnic University.

He got his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1986 (for which he received the UF Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award), an MSc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1983, an MS in Electronic Automation from the University of Athens, Greece, in 1981, and a BS in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece, in 1979.

His current research interests include signal and image processing systems, application-specific processor technology and design, computer arithmetic, and design and architecture of optimal digital systems.

He has led several DSP processor design projects funded by the European Union, American organizations, and the Greek government and industry.

He has authored and co-authored over 150 technical papers. He holds one patent on DSP processor design. He has authored several book chapters, the Univ. of Patras Press book "Digital Signal Processing," and co-authored the Marcel Dekker Inc. book "Digital Filter Design Software for the IBM PC."

He serves as Regional Editor for Europe for the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, and has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on VLSI, Editor for the IEEE Interactive Magazines, Editor-at-Large for Marcel Dekker Inc., Associate Editor for the Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, and as a consultant for various industries. He regularly reviews for the IEEE SP, C&S, C, and Education Transactions, for IEE Proceedings E, F, G, and for conferences like IEEE ISCAS, ICASSP, VLSI, SiPS, Computer Arithmetic, Euro DAC, etc. He also reviews proposals for NSF, the European Commission, and other agencies.

He is the general chair of the IEEE ISCAS 2006 and of the IEEE SiPS 2005. He is a member of the BoG for IEEE CAS Society for 2006. He has served as the Chair of the VLSI Systems and Applications (VSA) Technical Committee and as a member of the DSP and the Multimedia Technical Committees of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He is a founder and the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing chapter in Greece. He was the General Chair of the 1996 IEEE Int. Conf. on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS) and Technical Program Chair of Eusipco ’98 and ICECS ‘99. He has served as Chair or as a member of the Technical Program Committees of a multitude of IEEE Conferences, including ISCAS (Program Committee Track Chair). He received the 2000 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award (best paper) for the paper “Multi-Function Architectures for RNS Processors” and various other awards. He is an IEEE Fellow.