Georgios B. Giannakis

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Georgios B. Giannakis
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Born (1958-02-27) 27 February 1958 (age 66)
Piraeus, Greece
NationalityGreek, American
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Georgios B. Giannakis (born 27 February 1958) is a Greek-American Computer Scientist, engineer and inventor. He has been an Endowed Chair Professor of Wireless Telecommunications, he was Director of the Digital Technology Center, and at present he is a McKnight Presidential Chair with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota.

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Giannakis is internationally known for his work in the areas of statistical signal processing, distributed estimation using sensor networks, wireless communications and cross-layer network designs, on topics such as auto-regressive moving average system identification using higher-order statistics, [1] [2] principal component filter banks, [3] linear precoding, [4] multicarrier modulation, [5] ultra-wideband communications, [6] cognitive radios, and smart grids. Seminal work includes the development of linear precoding wireless communication systems, [4] which provided a unified approach for designing space–time block codes that achieve data high rates and reliability, and proposal of zero-padding as an alternative to the cyclic prefix for multi-carrier communication systems, [7] which had impact in the multi-band ultra wide band standard. [6] Current research focuses on big data, graph learning, and network science with applications to social, brain and power networks with renewables.

Giannakis has left a substantial academic legacy as an advisor of more than 59 Ph.D. dissertations and mentor of more than 27 postdoctoral researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Minnesota.

Early life

Born in Piraeus and raised in Corinth, Greece, Giannakis received his MEng in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1981, his M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1983, his M.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Southern California in 1986, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California also in 1986. [8] After completing his Ph.D., he started his academic career at the University of Virginia in 1987 and moved to the University of Minnesota in 1999. As a professor, he built a distinguished research group making contributions in many areas including statistical signal processing, wireless communications, sensor and mobile ad hoc networks and data analytics.

Awards and honors

In 2023, Giannakis became an International Fellow of UK's Royal Academy of Engineering. [9] In 2022, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Signal and Image Processing Institute at the University of Southern California; [10] and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Advising at the University of Minnesota. [11] In 2021, Giannakis became a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, Greece. [12] In 2020, he was inducted as International Member of Academia Europaea. [13] In the same year, he won the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) "Athanasios Papoulis," Society Award, [14] and was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. [15] In 2019, he was the winner of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing "Norbert Wiener" Society Award; [16] he was also named Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI); [17] and won the IEEE Communications Society Education Award. [18] In 2018, he received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Patras, and the University of Peloponnese, Greece. In 2016, Giannakis was appointed to the prestigious McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Minnesota.; [19] and from 2001 to 2008 he held the Endowed Chair in Wireless Telecommunications at the U. of Minnesota. [20] In 2015, Giannakis became the inaugural recipient of the IEEE Technical Field Fourier Award for Signal Processing. [21] From 2012 to 2017, he served as member of the Board of Regents, University of Patras, Greece. [22] In 2008, Giannakis became Fellow of EURASIP, [23] and in 2005 he received EURASIP's Technical Achievement Award. [24] Earlier in 1997, he became Fellow of the IEEE, [25] and in 2000 he received the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. [26]

Giannakis is listed in the top 20 of ISI’s Highly Cited Researchers in ECE and Computer Science. [27] His publications have received more than 94,000 citations with h-index=162. [28] In Thomson Reuters "World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds" he ranks at the top 300 from all fields of Engineering, Informatics, and Computer Science. [29]

Giannakis is also a co-author of ten best journal paper awards including the IEEE Communications Society's Gugliermo Marconi Prize Paper Award for work on linear precoding, [30] the 2003 IEEE Signal Processing Society's SP Magazine Best Paper Award for a paper on wireless multicarrier communication, [31] [32] an IEEE Signal Processing Society's Best Paper Award in 2001 for work on parallel factor analysis in sensor array processing, [33] an IEEE Signal Processing Society's Best Paper Award, 2000 for work on designing filterbank precoders and equalizers. [3]

Invention and commercialization

Giannakis has 36 US and foreign patents issued in the fields of wireless communications (several related to the 4G LTE standard), cognitive radio sensing, signal processing, power system monitoring, and photovoltaic inverters in residential power distribution. Through those he became a fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, `…the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation…’ Multiple lawsuits were filed by the University of Minnesota against Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T [34] based on Giannakis’ patents. [35] [36] [37] [38]

Selected books and book chapters

Selected publications

Selected patents

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References

  1. ↑ Giannakis, G. B.; Mendel, J. M. (March 1989). "Identification of nonminimum phase systems using higher order statistics". IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 37 (3): 360–377. doi:10.1109/29.21704. ISSN   0096-3518.
  2. ↑ Giannakis, G. B.; Swami, A. (March 1990). "On estimating noncausal nonminimum phase ARMA models of non-Gaussian processes". IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 38 (3): 478–495. doi:10.1109/29.106866. ISSN   0096-3518.
  3. 1 2 Scaglione, A.; Giannakis, G. B.; Barbarossa, S. (July 1999). "Redundant filterbank precoders and equalizers. I. Unification and optimal designs". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 47 (7): 1988–2006. Bibcode:1999ITSP...47.1988S. doi:10.1109/78.771047. ISSN   1053-587X.
  4. 1 2 Scaglione, A.; Stoica, P.; Barbarossa, S.; Giannakis, G. B.; Sampath, H. (May 2002). "Optimal designs for space-time linear precoders and decoders". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 50 (5): 1051–1064. Bibcode:2002ITSP...50.1051S. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.16.9100 . doi:10.1109/78.995062. ISSN   1053-587X.
  5. ↑ Batra, Anuj; Giannakis, G. B. (May 2000). "Wireless multicarrier communications". IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 17 (3): 29–48. Bibcode:2000ISPM...17...29W. doi:10.1109/79.841722. ISSN   1053-5888.
  6. 1 2 Batra, A; Balakrishnan, J; Aiello, G; Foerster, J; Dabak, A (September 2004). "Design of multiband OFDM system for realistic UWB channel environments". IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 52 (9): 2123–2138. Bibcode:2004ITMTT..52.2123B. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.330.5178 . doi:10.1109/TMTT.2004.834184. S2CID   16835205.
  7. ↑ Muquet, B.; Wang, Zhengdao; Giannakis, G. B.; Courville, M. de; Duhamel, P. (December 2002). "Cyclic prefixing or zero padding for wireless multicarrier transmissions?". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 50 (12): 2136–2148. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.12.6811 . doi:10.1109/TCOMM.2002.806518. ISSN   0090-6778.
  8. ↑ Georgios B. Giannakis Archived 2016-11-01 at the Wayback Machine degrees at umn.edu. Accessed September 5, 2013
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  11. ↑ "2022 Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Advising".
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  13. ↑ "Academy of Europe: Giannakis Georgios". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  14. ↑ "Athanasios Papoulis Award".
  15. ↑ "European Academy of Sciences".
  16. ↑ "Signal Processing Society Awardees". 16 December 2015.
  17. ↑ "U of M Professor Georgios Giannakis to be inducted into the National Academy of Inventors". 22 January 2020.
  18. ↑ "Prof. Georgios Giannakis Receives the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Education Award".
  19. ↑ "Georgios Giannakis awarded prestigious McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair". 23 June 2016.
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  21. ↑ "IEEE Fourier Award, Technical Field Award for Signal Processing Recipients". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Archived from the original on June 30, 2015.
  22. ↑ "The composition of the Council Foundation".
  23. ↑ "EURASIP Fellows".
  24. ↑ "Individual Technical".
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  26. ↑ "IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award" (PDF).
  27. ↑ "World's Top Computer Scientists: H-Index Computer Science Ranking". www.guide2research.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  28. ↑ "Georgios B. Giannakis Google scholar profile".
  29. ↑ "31 Greek researchers among the world's most influential scientific minds".
  30. ↑ Xin, Yan; Wang, Zhengdao; Giannakis, G. B. (March 2003). "Space-time diversity systems based on linear constellation precoding". IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 2 (2): 294–309. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.12.8101 . doi:10.1109/TWC.2003.808970. ISSN   1536-1276.
  31. ↑ Wang, Zhendao; Giannakis, G. B. (May 2000). "Wireless multicarrier communications". IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 17 (3): 29–48. Bibcode:2000ISPM...17...29W. doi:10.1109/79.841722. ISSN   1053-5888.
  32. ↑ "IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award" (PDF).
  33. ↑ Sidiropoulos, N. D.; Bro, R.; Giannakis, G. B. (August 2000). "Parallel factor analysis in sensor array processing". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 48 (8): 2377–2388. Bibcode:2000ITSP...48.2377S. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.21.4217 . doi:10.1109/78.852018. ISSN   1053-587X.
  34. ↑ "AT&T, Verizon, Others Flouted U. Of Minn. Patents, Suit Says".
  35. ↑ USGrant 7,251,768,Georgios Giannakis&Shengli Zhou,"Wireless communication system having error-control coder and linear precoder",published February 5, 2004,issued July 31, 2007, assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
  36. ↑ USGrant 8,588,317,Georgios Giannakis, Xiaoli Ma&Xiaoli Ma,"Estimating frequency-offsets and multi-antenna channels in MIMO OFDM systems",published November 19, 2013,issued November 19, 2013, assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
  37. ↑ USGrant 8,718,185,Georgios Giannakis, Xiaoli Ma&Xiaoli Ma,"Estimating frequency-offsets and multi-antenna channels in MIMO OFDM systems",published 2014-05-06,issued 2014-05-06, assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
  38. ↑ USGrant 8,774,309,Georgios Giannakis, Xiaoli Ma&Xiaoli Ma,"Estimating frequency-offsets and multi-antenna channels in MIMO OFDM systems",published 2014-07-08,issued 2014-07-08, assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)
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