Andreas Tsiartas, Ph.D., has research interests that include speech cues analysis, cognitive state representation, speech-to-speech translation, acoustic and language modeling, and speech signals representation.

He holds a B.Sc. degree in electronics and computer engineering from the Technical University of Crete. He also holds an MSc. and a Ph.D. in signal processing from the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), University of Southern California (USC). He has published more than 20 papers in the field of speech processing.

Tsiartas’ honors and awards include best teaching assistant awards in 2009 and 2010 from EE, USC. In 2006, he was awarded the Viterbi School Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship from USC.