Dr. George Karagiannidis
Research Faculty
Khalifa University, UAE, Position: Professor - Coordinator of ICT Cluster Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014-2015Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, Greece Position: Senior Researcher, 2000-2004
- Educational background (Ph.D. - granting institution and year of completion)
Dr.-Eng (Ph.D) in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, 1999
- Notable awards or achievements (if any)
- 2023 Clarivate Analytics, Web-of-Science Highly Cited Researcher
- 2022 Humboldt Research Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 2022 Clarivate Analytics, Web-of-Science Highly Cited Researcher
- 2021 Clarivate Analytics, Web-of-Science Highly Cited Researcher
- 2021 IEEE Communications Society, Radio Communications Committee Technical Recognition Award for Outstanding Contribution to wireless communications systems
- 2020 Clarivate Analytics, Web-of-Science Highly Cited Researcher
- 2019 Clarivate Analytics, Web-of-Science Highly Cited Researcher
- 2018 Clarivate Analytics, Web-of-Science Highly Cited Researcher
- 2018 IEEE Communications Society, Signal Processing and Communications Electronics (SPCE) Technical Recognition Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Signal Processing for Communications
- 2018-2020 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)
- Best Paper Award, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Spring 2018 (VTC 2018-Spring)
- 2017 Clarivate Analytics (previously Thomson Reuters), Web-of-Science Highly Cited Researcher
- 2016-2019 Research Grant from Chinese Government: High End Foreign Expert (High Level Talents, Category A), hosted by the Southwest Jiaotong University, China
- 2016 Thomson Reuters, Highly Cited Researcher
- 2015 Thomson Reuters, World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds
- 2015 Thomson Reuters, Highly Cited Researcher
- Fellow IEEE, Class 2014
- 2011-2016 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications 2007 (ICC 2007)
- Editorial roles or appointments
• IEEE Transactions on Communications, Editor-in-Chief, 2024-Present
• Member of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications Networks since 2023.
• IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Associate Editor-in-Chief 07/2019-2022
• IEEE Communications Letters, Editor-in-Chief 2012-2015
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Large-Scale Multiple Antenna Wireless Systems” 01/2013
• IEEE Transactions on Communications, Editor for Fading Channels and Diversity2007-2011
• IEEE Communications Letters, Senior Editor 2010-2011
• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Assoc. Editor 2004-2011
• IEEE Communications Letters, Associate Editor 2004-2010
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Guest Editor for several Special Issues
- Professional memberships (e.g., IEEE), board memberships
IEEE Fellow, Class 2014
- Selected Publications:
Z. Zhang et al., “6G Wireless Networks: Vision, Requirements, Architecture, and Key Technologies,” in IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 28-41, Sept. 2019, doi: 10.1109/MVT.2019.2921208.
L. Chen, L. Fan, X. Lei, T. Q. Duong, A. Nallanathan and G. K. Karagiannidis, “Relay-Assisted Federated Edge Learning: Performance Analysis and System Optimization,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 3387-3401, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2023.3263566.
D. Tyrovolas, P. -V. Mekikis, S. A. Tegos, P. D. Diamantoulakis, C. K. Liaskos and G. K. Karagiannidis, “Energy-Aware Design of UAV-Mounted RIS Networks for IoT Data Collection,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 1168-1178, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2022.3229672.
Z. Ding et al., “A State-of-the-Art Survey on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Networks,” in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 110, no. 9, pp. 1358-1379, Sept. 2022, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2022.3174140.
Y. Guo, R. Zhao, S. Lai, L. Fan, X. Lei and G. K. Karagiannidis, “Distributed Machine Learning for Multiuser Mobile Edge Computing Systems,” in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 460-473, April 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2022.3140660.
- Academic Profiles: Links to your Google Scholar and Scopus profiles
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