George Karagiannidis | |
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Born | Pythagoreio, Samos Island, Greece |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Patras |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Visitor Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität |
Website | geokarag |
George Karagiannidis is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a director of Digital Telecommunications Systems and Networks Laboratory. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 "for contributions to the performance analysis of wireless communication systems". [1] , [2] , [3] , [4]
Ηe was born in Pythagoreio,Samos Island,Greece. He received the 5 years University Diploma,in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Patras in 1987 and in 1998 he got his PhD from the same alma mater. [2] , [3]
From 2000 to 2004,he was a senior researcher at the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing,National Observatory of Athens,Greece. Karagiannidis joined the faculty of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2004,and since that time is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a director of Digital Telecommunications Systems and Networks Laboratory. He also is an honorary professor at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu,China. From 2023-2025,he was a visitor professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität.
In 2004,Karagiannidis founded the Wireless Communications &Information Processing (WCIP) Group. WCIP belongs to Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,Greece.
WCIP conducts fundamental and applied research in the broader fields of telecommunications systems and signal processing,both independently and by means of more than 30 international collaborations. The research interests and experience of the WCIP covers areas of RF and optical wireless communications (communications theory,power transfer,machine learning,security,and caching),Machine Learning for communications,Signal processing, and Communications security. [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] , [5]
Dr. Karagiannidis was in the past Editor in several IEEE journals and from 2012 to 2015 he was the Editor-in Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. From September 2018 to June 2022 he served as Associate Editor-in Chief of IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society. Starting from January 2025,he is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Communications. [2] , [3] , [4]
Dr. Karagiannidis received several prestigious awards,such as the 2018 IEEE ComSoc SPCE Technical Recognition Award,the 2021 IEEE ComSoc RCC 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 by Clarivate Analytics as the Web-of-Science Highly-Cited Researcher for the ten consecutive years,2015–2024. [6] , [7] , [8] , [9]
He is also an author of novels. His first book is an historical novel in Greek language with the title “My heart your gun”. [10]