Theodora Chaspari

Educational Background

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2017
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2012
Diploma (5-year degree, M.S. equivalent), Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2010

- Biomedical Signal Processing
- Behavioral Signal Processing
- Affective Computing
- Wearable Applications
- Data Science, Machine Learning

Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholars Award, 2021
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2021
CSE Graduate Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2019
Runner-up Best Poster Award, IEEE Body Sensor Networks, 2019
Best Presentation Award, Big Data and Human Behavior Symposium, USC, 2016
USC Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Merit Fellowship, 2015
IEEE Signal Processing Society Travel Grant, 2014
USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship, 2010-2012
USC Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Graduate Top-off Fellowship, 2010-2012

A. Gujral, K. Feng, G. Mandhyan, N. Snehil, and T. Chaspari, "Leveraging transfer learning techniques for classifying infant vocalizations," IEEE Biomedical Health Informatics (BHI), 2019
A. Gujral, T. Chaspari, A.C. Timmons, Y. Kim, S. Barrett, and G. Margolin, "Population-specific detection of couples' interpersonal conflict," Proc. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Boulder, CO, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1145/3242969.3243007
A.C. Timmons, T. Chaspari, S.C. Han, L. Perrone, S.S. Narayanan, and G. Margolin, "Multimodal detection of conflict in couples using wearable technology,'' IEEE Computer, 50(3): 50-59, 2017.
T. Chaspari, A. Tsiartas, P. Tsilifis, and S.S. Narayanan, "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Inference of Parametric Dictionaries for Sparse Bayesian Approximations," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 64(12): 3077-3092, 2016.
T. Chaspari and J. Fain Lehman, "An Acoustic Analysis of Child-Child and Child-Robot Interactions for Understanding Engagement during Speech-Controlled Computer Games," Proc. Interspeech, pp. 595-599, San Francisco, CA, 2016.
T. Chaspari, A. Tsiartas, L.I. Stein, S.A. Cermak, and S.S. Narayanan, "Sparse Representation of Electrodermal Activity with Knowledge-Driven Dictionaries," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 62(3): 960-971, 2015.