Dr. Dimitris A. Pados
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Co-Director, Communications & Signals Laboratory (CSL)
Contact Information
Department of Electrical Engineering
332 Bonner Hall
University at Buffalo
The State University of New York
Buffalo, NY 14260-1920
USA

Tel.: (716) 645-3115 ext. 2134
Fax: (716) 645-3656
E-mail: pados@eng.buffalo.edu
http://www.ee.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/pados/pados.html


Degrees:

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, 1994
Diploma Computer Science and Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 1989
Years of Service on this faculty:
Six years
Curriculum Vitae:
[pdf file]
Principal publications of the last four years:
Z. Liu and D. A. Pados, "Near-ML multiuser detection with linear filters and reliability-based processing," IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear [pdf file].

G. N. Karystinos and D. A. Pados, "New bounds on the total squared correlation and optimum design of DS-CDMA binary signature sets," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, pp. 48-51, Jan. 2003 [pdf file].

Y. Wu and D. A. Pados, "An adaptive two-stage algorithm for ML and sub-ML decoding of binary linear block codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 49, pp. 261-269, Jan. 2003 [pdf file].

G. N. Karystinos and D. A. Pados, "New bounds on the total-squared-correlation and optimum design of DS-CDMA binary signature sets," in Proceedings IEEE ICT 2001 (Intern. Conf. on Telecomm.), Bucharest, Romania, June 2001, vol. 3, pp. 260-265  (best paper award) [pdf file].

D. A. Pados, M. J. Medley, and S. N. Batalama, "Adaptive antenna array receivers for spread-spectrum signals in non-Gaussian noise," Digital Signal Processing, Special Issue on Defense Applications: Communications Signal Processing, vol. 11, pp. 144- 158, Apr. 2001 [pdf file].

D. A. Pados and G. N. Karystinos, "An iterative algorithm for the computation of the MVDR filter," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, pp. 290-300, Feb. 2001 [pdf file].

S. N. Batalama, M. J. Medley, and D. A. Pados, "Robust adaptive recovery of spread-spectrum signals with short data records," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 48, pp. 1725-1731, Oct. 2000 [pdf file].

G. N. Karystinos and D. A. Pados, "On overfitting, generalization, and randomly expanded training sets," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 11, pp. 1050-1057, Sept. 2000 (best paper award) [pdf file].

Y. Wu and D. A. Pados, "A feedforward bidirectional associative memory," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 11, pp. 859-866, July 2000 [pdf file].

D. A. Pados, F. J. Lombardo, and S. N. Batalama, "Auxiliary-vector filters and adaptive steering for DS/CDMA single-user detection," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 48, pp. 1831-1839, Nov. 1999 [pdf file].

D. A. Pados and S. N. Batalama, "Joint space-time auxiliary-vector filtering for DS/CDMA systems with antenna arrays," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 47, pp. 1406-1415, Sept. 1999 [pdf file].

I. N. Psaromiligkos, S. N. Batalama, and D. A. Pados, "On adaptive minimum probability of error linear filter receivers for DS-CDMA channels," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 47, pp. 1092-1102, July 1999 [pdf file].

Research Sponsors:
National Science Foundation, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Air Force Research Laboratory, Boeing Corporation.
Research Awards:
2003 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award (papers published in years 2000 and 2001): "On overfitting, generalization, and randomly expanded training sets," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 11, pp. 1050-1057, Sept. 2000, by G. N. Karystinos and D. A. Pados.

IEEE ICT 2001 (International Conf. on Telecomm.) Best Paper Award: "New bounds on the total-squared-correlation and optimum design of DS-CDMA binary signature sets," in Proceedings IEEE ICT 2001 (Intern. Conf. on Telecomm.), Bucharest, Romania, June 2001, vol. 3, pp. 260-265, by G. N. Karystinos and D. A. Pados.
Other professional activities:
Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Jan. 2000-present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Jan. 2000-present
Faculty Advisor, HKN Honor Society, Nov. 2000-present
Technical Program Committee, 2003 IEEE Intern. Conf. on Comm. (ICC), Anchorage, AK
Technical Program Committee, SPIE 13th-17th Annual Intern. Symposium, Digital Wireless Comm. Conf., Orlando, FL, 1999-2003
Technical Program Committee/Session Organizer/Chair, International Conf. on Telecomm. (ICT) 2000, Acapulco, Mexico; ICT 1998, Porto Carras, Greece; ICT 1997, Melbourne, Australia; IEEE International Conf. on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) 1996, Toulouse, France; IEEE Globecom 1995, Singapore
Subjects or courses taught during the most recent semesters:
Spring 2003:
EE484 Communications Systems II (Undergraduate) (3) Lecture
EE614 Smart Antennas  (Graduate) (3) Lecture
Fall 2002:
EE203 Circuit Analysis II (Undergraduate) (4) Lecture/Lab

Spring 2002:
EE484 Communications Systems II (Undergraduate) (3) Lecture
EE634 Principles of Information Theory and Coding (Graduate) (3) Lecture
Other departmental service activities:
Graduate Admissions Committee, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1998-1999, 2001-present

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