Georgios B. Giannakis#
| Membership Number: | 5243 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://spincom.umn.edu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgios_B._Giannakis |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0196-0260 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgios-b-giannakis-54023b18/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present University of Minnesota, Director of College-Wide Research Center: Digital Technology Center
- 1999 - present University of Minnesota, Full Professor, Endowed Chair Prof., and Presidential Chair Prof. of Electrical and Comp. Engr.
- 1998 - 1999 University of Virginia (UVA), Director of the Communications, Controls, and Signal Processing Laboratory (CCSL), Department of EE
- 1987 - 1998 University of Virginia (UVA), Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor with the Dept. of EE
- 1986 - 1987 University of Southern California (USC), Department of EE-Systems; Instructor and Research Associate
- 1982 - 1986 USC, Dept. of EE-Systems: Grader, teaching, and research assistant during graduate studies
Fields of Scholarship
- Data science, power systems, network science, Internet-of-Things
- High-order statistics, (poly)spectra, wavelets, cyclostationary, and non-Gaussian signal analysis
- Statistical signal processing, machine learning, wireless communications, networking, sensor networks
Honours and Awards
- 2020 European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) "Athanasios Papoulis," Society Award
- 2020 European Academy of Sciences (EurASC) Fellow
- 2019 US National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow
- 2019 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Signal Processing Society (SPS), "Norbert Wiener" Society Award
- 2019 IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Education Award
- IEEE Technical Field `Fourier' Award (2015); Inaugural recipient
- 2008 European Association of Signal Processing (EURASIP) Technical Achievement Award
- 2001 IEEE SPS Technical Achievement Award (2001)
- 9 best journal paper awards from SPS/ ComSoc (1992-2018), including the Gugliermo Marconi Prize Paper Award (2003)
- 9 best conference paper awards from IEEE (SPS and ComSoc) and Eurasip (1990-2017)
- Highly cited researcher from 2007-2020 (top 17 among Engineering and Computer Science worldwide with H-index=145 and more than 76,000 Google Scholar Citations)
- Major University-level research and teaching awards. Endowed chair professorship in Wireless Telecommunications (2001-present), and McKnight Presidential Chair Professorship (2016-present), University of Minnesota
- Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the University of Patras, and from the University of the Peloponnese, Greece (2018) Departments of Informatics and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 2019 Distinguished Professorship from Zhejiang University, P. R. China
- 2018 Faculty Fellowship from Fudan University, P. R. China
- 2017 Advising Professorship, Beijing Institute of Techology, Beijing, P. R. China
- IEEE-SPS Distinguished Lecturer (2007); so far, he has delivered more than 100 plenary or keynote speeches and 50 tutorial talks attended by hundreds of students, researchers, and Engineers
- 2014 - 2017 Board of Regents elected member, University of Patras, Greece
- Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency, Ministry of Education, Greece (2012-present); participated as member or chair of panels evaluating and accrediting Departments of Informatics and ECE; as well as several Greek Universities
- 2001 - 2004 IEEE-SPS elected member of the Board of Governors
- 1999 - 2002 IEEE Fellow Election Committee, elected member
