Dr. George K. Karagiannidis
George K. Karagiannidis ((M’96-SM’03-F’14) is currently Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Head of Wireless Communications & Information Processing (WCIP) Group. He is also Faculty Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence & Cyber Systems Research Center, Lebanese American University. His research interests are in the areas of Wireless Communications Systems and Networks, Signal processing, Optical Wireless Communications, Wireless Power Transfer and Applications and Communications & Signal Processing for Biomedical Engineering. 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. Currently, he is in the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications & Networks. Recently, he 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. Dr. Karagiannidis is one of the highly-cited authors across all areas of Electrical Engineering, recognized from Clarivate Analytics as Web-of-Science Highly-Cited Researcher in the nine consecutive years 2015-2023.