George K. Karagiannidis



Biography

George K. Karagiannidis (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Electrical Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece, in 1998. He is currently a Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, and the Head of Wireless Communications and Information Processing (WCIP) Group. His research interests are in the areas of wireless communications systems and networks, signal processing, optical wireless communications, wireless power transfer, and signal processing for biomedical engineering. Dr. Karagiannidis recently received three prestigious awards: The 2021 IEEE ComSoc RCC Technical Recognition Award, the 2018 IEEE ComSoc SPCE Technical Recognition Award, and the 2022 Humboldt Research Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is one of the Highly Cited Authors across all areas of Electrical Engineering, recognized from Clarivate Analytics as the Web-of-Science Highly-Cited Researcher in the ten consecutive years 2015–2024. Currently, he is the Editor-in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Communications and in the past was the Editor-in Chief of IEEE Communications Letters.