Manolis Perakakis

Current

• Researcher at Telecommunication Systems Institute

Past

• Research assistant at Network and Telecommunications Lab, Technical University Crete
• Researcher/software engineer at Dialogos Speech Communications S.A.

Education

• Technical University Crete
• Technical University Crete
• Technical University Crete

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Connections

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Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Blog

Manolis Perakakis’s Summary

Software engineer/Researcher

Manolis Perakakis’s Specialties:

-Software engineer/architect:
--GNU/open source tools
--GUI programming (C/Xt, Perl/Tk, TCL/Tk, Java AWT/Swing/SWT, C++/QT, Android, iPhone)
--...

-Research interests :
--Multimedia understanding
--Distributed Speech Recognition & interfaces
--Multimodal & mobile interfaces
--Adaptive interfaces/HCI
--Collaborative filtering/Recommendation systems
--Pattern recognition/Machine Learning
--NLP
--Cognitive science/Machine perception
--AI/autonomous agents/Robotics

Manolis Perakakis’s Experience

• Researcher

  Telecommunication Systems Institute

  (Public Company; Research industry)

  September 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)

  Reseacher for various EU funded research projects :
  
  -HiWIRE STREP EU project -> robust speech recogntion
  
  -MUSCLE NoE EU project -> multimedia understanding through semantics

• Research assistant

  Network and Telecommunications Lab, Technical University Crete

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

  July 1997 — May 2003 (5 years 11 months)

  Research assistant, participating in various research projects :
  
  -Spoken Language Translator (Standford Research Institute/Telia Research Sweden) -> Distributed speech recognition
  
  -Logotypografia (Greek funded project) -> First greek speech dictation system

• Researcher/software engineer

  Dialogos Speech Communications S.A.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 2 months)

  Research on speech recognition architectures, distributed speech recognition

Manolis Perakakis’s Education

• Technical University Crete

  PhD , Electronics and Computer Engineer , 2004 — 2008

• Technical University Crete

  MSc, MEng , Electronics and Computer Engineer , 2001 — 2003

• Technical University Crete

  Bachelor (5 years, 53 courses) , Electronics and Computer Engineering , 1993 — 1998

Additional Information

Manolis Perakakis’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Blog

Manolis Perakakis’s Interests:

mobile development, multimodal interfaces, open source, HCI, design, jabber, embedded systems, speech recognition

Manolis Perakakis’s Groups:

IEEE, ACM, Technical Chamber of Greece

•    International Association of Software Architects
•    OpenCoffee Greece
•    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
•    ACM SIGCHI
•    Open Source Universe
•    Linux Expert
•    XMPP
•    IEEE Computer Society Members
•    Mobile Software Development Group
•    Machine Learning Connection
•    Java Developers
•    User Experience
•    Android Developer Group (2,000+ and growing!)
•    Embedded Linux
•    SPEECH Community
•    Polytechnion Kritis HMMY Alumni
•    HELLUG
•    Future Trends
•    ΣΩΜΑ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΚΗΣ
•    VisionMobile
•    Qt by Nokia
•    Ένωση Μηχανικών Πληροφορικής και Επικοινωνιών Ελλάδας (ΕΜηΠΕΕ)) - Union of Computer Engineers Greece
•    (The NEW) Mobile User Experience

Manolis Perakakis’s Honors:

-[2005] Three year scholarship/funding from Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology, for my PHD thesis : "Speech & Multimodal interfaces for mobile and PDA devices"

-[2002] Trolltech's worldwide QT embedded programming contest : beta application winner for the implementation of an instant messaging application for Zaurus, a high end Linux PDA from Sharp

-[2001] First Award of Excellence in Telecommunications by Ericsson, for my diploma thesis "Distributed Speech Recognition for wireless /wired data networks (Web/GPRS) using 2 kbps coding"

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