George Karagiannidis
George K. 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". Early life and education Karagiannidis was born in Pythagoreio, Samos Island, Greece. He received the University Diploma, after studying electrical and computer engineering for five years at the University of Patras in 1987 and in 1999 he got his Ph.D. from the same alma mater. Career 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. In 2004, Karagiannidis founded the Wireless Communications & Information Processing (WCIP) Group. WCIP belongs to Digital Telecommunications Systems and Networks Laboratory of the