Personal Info

My name is Petros Gavalakis and I was born in Rethymnon, Crete, Greece on the 12^th day of March, 1977.


Studies

I graduated High School back in 1994 and took the national exams in order to become an engineer. I was admited in the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering of the Technical University of Crete located in Chania, Crete.

On February 2000, I graduated from the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering majoring in Telecommunications (Computer Systems, Software engineering and Telecommunication/Computer Networks). My diploma thesis was in the area of Automatic Speech Recognition and the exact subject was "Comparative study of smoothing techniques on parameter evaluation for DMHMM acoustic models", which was implemented as a module of the (SRI) Decipher package.

After finishing my service for the national army and during the years 2001-2004 I conducted research for the Telecommunications Systems Lab, TUC as a member of the Speech Group. During my post-graduate studies at the TUC I was a teaching assistant in classes like "Analog Telecommunications Systems Lab". On the 1^st of July 2004, I presented my master thesis on "Clustering techniques at the subvector level for DMHMM acoustic models"

Since September 2003, I had also been attending the post-graduate class of the Department of Production Engineering and Management, TUC targeting to a master's degree on Operational Research Science. I finally presented my thesis in August 2006 on "Flexible Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Analysis using Colored Petri Nets"

My main research interests include :

• Speech Recognition and Applications
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Understanding
• Telecommunication Systems - Data Networks - Integrated Service Networks
• Internet/LAN Networking - UNIX Administration/Programming
• Web Applications

Work

I've been working for Dialogos Speech Communications S.A. as a full-time speech and application engineer since October 2000.
A few more details can be found in my CV (or in this greek version).


Leisure

My list of hobbies - ocassionally - includes:

• Literature: Mainly greek novels
• Cinema
• Bicycling
• Photography
• Mini Soccer (5x5)
• Music: Greek rock/independent scene, mainstream rock and pop stuff and of course cretan folk music

Contact info

Email me : pgaval AT telecom.tuc.gr, P.Gavalakis AT gmail.com
Or just ...chat with me on Skype


Last Update: 2006-08-30