Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming Doctoral Assistant Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory EPFL-STI-IEL-TCL Office ELG 011, Station 11 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland http://tcl.epfl.ch Citizenship: Greek, German Date of Birth: May 4th, 1986 Phone: +41 767 39 68 20 E-mail: alexios.balatsoukas@epfl.ch Website: http://people.epfl.ch/alexios.balatsoukas Research Interests Coding theory and practice, hardware for signal processing and communications, full-duplex communications. Education 2012 today PhD, Computer, Communication and Information Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. 2010 2012 MSc, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete (TUC), Chania, Greece. 2004 2010 Diploma, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece. Research Experience Jul 2012 today Jun 2015 Aug 2015 Mar 2010 Jun 2012 Jul 2011 Aug 2011 Research Assistant, Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory, EPFL. Algorithms and hardware architectures for successive cancellation based decoding of polar codes. (Supervisor: Prof. A. P. Burg). Intern, Wireless Communications Lab, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, USA. (Supervisor: Dr. Farhana Sheikh). Research Assistant, Telecommunications Laboratory, TUC. EXIT-chart based design of LDPC codes for the relay and multiple access channels. Design and implementation of an FPGA-based LDPC decoder (Supervisor: Prof. A. P. Liavas). Intern, Algorithmic Research in Network Information Laboratory, EPFL. Explored applications of subtree decompositions to network coding and developed relevant MATLAB code (Supervisor: Prof. C. Fragouli). Publications Journals J1. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming and A. Burg, Faulty successive cancellation decoding of polar codes for the binary erasure channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Mar. 2015 (in preparation) 1
J2. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, A. C. M. Austin, P. Belanovic, and A. Burg, Baseband and RF hardware impairments in full-duplex wireless systems: Experimental characterisation and suppression, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Special Issue on Experimental Evaluation in Wireless Communications), Apr. 2015 (accepted) J3. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, M. Bastani Parizi, and A. Burg, LLR-based metric calculation for list successive cancellation decoding of polar codes, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Mar. 2015 (accepted) J4. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, A. J. Raymond, W. J. Gross, and A. Burg, Hardware architecture for list successive cancellation decoding of polar codes, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Aug. 2014 J5. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming and A. Burg, Density evolution for min-sum decoding of LDPC codes under faulty message storage, IEEE Communications Letters, May 2014 Conferences C1. M. Meidlinger, A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, A. Burg, and G. Matz, Quantized message passing for LDPC codes, in Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, May 2015 (submitted) C2. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, M. Meidlinger, R. Ghanaatian, G. Matz, and A. Burg, A fully-unrolled LDPC decoder based on quantized message passing, in IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS), May 2015 (submitted) C3. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, M. Bastani Parizi, and A. Burg, On metric sorter architectures for list successive cancellation decoding of polar codes, in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2015 C4. O. Afisiadis, A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, and A. Burg, A low-complexity improved successive cancellation decoder for polar codes, in Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 2014 C5. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming and A. Burg, Faulty successive cancellation decoding of polar codes for the binary erasure channel, in International Symposium on Information Theory and Applications (ISITA), Oct. 2014 C6. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, G. Karakonstantis, and A. Burg, Enabling complexity-performance tradeoffs for successive cancellation decoding of polar codes, in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2014 C7. K. Alexandris, A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, and A. Burg, Measurement-based characterization of residual self-interference on a full-duplex MIMO testbed, in IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), June 2014 C8. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, M. Bastani Parizi, and A. Burg, LLR-based metric calculation for list successive cancellation decoding of polar codes, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2014 C9. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, P. Belanovic, K. Alexandris, and A. Burg, On self-interference suppression methods for low-complexity full-duplex MIMO, in Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 2013 C10. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, N. Preyss, A. Cevrero, A. Burg, and C. Studer, A parallelized layered QC- LDPC decoder for IEEE 802.11ad in 40 nm CMOS, in IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS), Jun. 2013 C11. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming and A. Dollas, FPGA-based design and implementation of a multi-gbps LDPC decoder, in International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Aug. 2012 2
PhD Forum Posters, Demos, & Talks P1. A. C. M. Austin, O. Afisiadis, A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, and A. Burg, Concurrent spectrum sensing and transmission for cognitive radio using self-interference cancellation, in ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHOC), June 2015 P2. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming and A. Burg, Polar decoding with unreliable memories, in Information Theory and Applications (ITA), Feb. 2015 P3. A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, C. Studer, and A. Burg, Characterization of min-sum decoding of LDPC codes on unreliable silicon, in Information Theory and Applications (ITA), Feb. 2014 P4. P. Belanovic, A. Balatsoukas-Stimming, and A. Burg, A multipurpose testbed for full-duplex wireless communications, in IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), Dec. 2013 (best paper award, 2nd prize) Honors and Awards 2015 Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE ISCAS 2015. 2014 Exemplary reviewer, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 2013 Best paper award (2nd prize), IEEE ICECS 2013 PhD forum. 2013 Exemplary reviewer, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 2011 Special Graduate Studies Scholarship, Technical University of Crete. 2010 Two-year Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Greece, Onassis Foundation. Special Graduate Studies Scholarship, Technical University of Crete. 2009 Scholarship of Academic Excellence (top of class), State Scholarships Foundation of Greece. Scholarship of Academic Excellence (top of class), Technical University of Crete. Professional Service Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Communications IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications IEEE Wireless Communications Letters IEEE Communications Letters IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers AIMS Advances in Mathematics of Communications IEEE ICC 2012, FPL 2013, IEEE ICECS 2013, IEEE SAM 2014, IEEE ISCAS 2015, IEEE ISIT 2015. TPC EUSIPCO 2014, EUSIPCO 2015 Web Chair IEEE WoWMoM 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015 ViDEv workshops. Teaching Experience 2012 today Teaching Assistant, EPFL. EE442 Wireless Receivers: Algorithms and Architectures (Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014). EE542 Advanced Wireless Receivers: Algorithms and Architectures (Spring 2013, Spring 2015). 2010 2012 Teaching Assistant, TUC. TEL301 Digital Telecommunication Systems I (Fall 2010, Fall 2011). TEL311 Digital Telecommunication Systems II (Spring 2010). TEL313 Sound and Music Processing (Spring 2010, Spring 2012). TEL413 Introduction to Optimization Theory (Fall 2011). TEL415 Wireless Communications (Spring 2011). 3
Research Projects Co-author and Researcher P1. Efficient Application Specific Integrated Circuits for Decoding Polar Codes, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2014-2016. P2. FORTE: Full-Duplex Radios, Theory and Experiments, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2013-2016. P3. SWiNCom: Secure Wireless Communications at the Physical Layer, Greek Ministry of Education, Thales program, 2012-2015. Select Graduate Coursework EPFL TUC Information Theory and Coding, Advanced Probability, Statistical Physics for Communications and Computer Science. Probability and Random Processes, Information Theory and Coding, Detection and Estimation Theory, Convex Optimization, Reconfigurable Digital Systems. Technical Skills Programming Hardware Typesetting Web Languages MATLAB, C, C++, VHDL, perl. Xilinx ISE & EDK, ModelSim, LabVIEW. L A TEX, Microsoft Office, Libre/OpenOffice. HTML, PHP, CSS, Joomla, Wordpress. Greek German English French Mother tongue. Mother tongue. Fluent (Cambridge CPE). Fair (DELF B1). Personal Interests Music Sports Other Electric bass, flute, singing (solo and choir). Nominated for the Ioannis Manioudakis musical scholarship in 2011. Amateur level music composition, recording, and production. Hobbyist band with 4 self-produced records, available under a Creative Commons license. Tennis, alpine skiing, cycling, bowling, jogging. British comedy, fantasy books, cooking, astronomy & cosmology. 4
References Professor Andreas P. Burg Telecommunications Circuits Laboratory Electrical Engineering Department École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ELG 030, Station 11 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Phone: +41-2169-36924 E-mail: andreas.burg@epfl.ch Professor Nikos D. Sidiropoulos Electrical & Computer Engineering Department University of Minnesota Office 6-179 Keller Hall Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Phone: +1-612-625-1242 E-mail: nikos@umn.edu Dr. Farhana Sheikh Staff Research Scientist Wireless Communications Lab Intel Labs Hillsboro, OR, USA E-mail: farhana.sheikh@intel.com Professor Athanasios P. Liavas Telecommunications Laboratory Electronic & Computer Engineering Department Technical University of Crete 73100 Chania, Greece Phone: +30-28210-3722 E-mail: liavas@telecom.tuc.gr Professor Apostolos Dollas Microprocessor & Hardware Laboratory Electronic & Computer Engineering Department Technical University of Crete 73100 Chania, Greece Phone: +30-28210-37228 E-mail: dollas@mhl.tuc.gr 5