Researcher

Dorina Thanou

Dorina Thanou works on graph learning and signal processing. Her coauthored 2014 paper developed learned parametric dictionaries for signals on graphs, using network structure to represent observations efficiently. She passed her PhD exam at EPFL on 21 December 2015. Her 2016 coauthored paper on heat-diffusion graphs proposed learning unknown connectivity from observed signals. It treats data as combinations of local diffusion processes and uses optimization to infer a useful graph.

Now at
EPFL
Works
95
Citations
2,870
h-index
21

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Dorina Thanou

Timeline

  1. January 2014

    Learning graph-signal dictionaries

    Thanou coauthored work with David Shuman and Pascal Frossard on learning parametric dictionaries for graph signals. The method uses graph structure and learned representations for sparse approximation.

  2. 21 December 2015

    Doctoral exam at EPFL

    Thanou passed her PhD exam on 21 December 2015.

  3. November 2016

    Learning heat-diffusion graphs

    She coauthored a method for inferring the graph connectivity that explains observed signals. The method models observations as heat-diffusion processes and uses a nonconvex optimization algorithm. Experiments cover synthetic and real data.

Sources and credits

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  1. Learning parametric dictionaries for graph signals: original abstract arxiv.org. Checked 13 October 2026.
  2. EPFL LTS4: New PhD Thesis, 22 December 2015 actu.epfl.ch. Checked 13 October 2026.
  3. Learning heat diffusion graphs: original abstract arxiv.org. Checked 13 October 2026.