Our Friends
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It is honor and
pleasure to introduce you to our Friends.
We hope you will be joining us soon!
Constantinides, Prof. Anthony G.
Professor of Signal and Head of the Communications and Signal Processing
Group
Imperial College
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Domdouzis, Dr. Konstantinos
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Ephremides, Prof. Anthony
Cynthia Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology
University of Maryland
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Georghiades, Prof. Costas
Delbert A. Whitaker Chair
Professor and Department Head
Texas A & M University
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Giannakis, Prof. Georgios B.
ADC Chair in Wireless Communications
University of Minnesota
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Paschalidis, Prof. Yannis
Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Co-Director of Center for Information and Systems Engineering Organizations
Boston University
Polydoros, Dr. Andreas
Founder, Chairman of Technical Advisory Board
TrellisWare
Prevedouros, Prof. Panos D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Hawaii-Manoa
Proakis. Prof. John
Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University
Adjunct Professor at the ECE Department at
University of California
ECE Department
Savakis, Prof. Andreas
Department Head of Computer Engineering Organization
Rochester Institute of Technology
Twala, Mr. Reason
Research Assistant
National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe
Computer Science Department
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Constantinides, Prof. Anthony G.
Professor of Signal and Head of the Communications and Signal Processing
Group
Imperial College
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
A.G. Constantinides has been actively involved with research in various
aspects of digital filter design, digital signal processing, and
communications for more than 30 years. Professor Constantinides' research
spans a wide range of Digital Signal Processing and Communications, both
from the theoretical as well as the practical points of view. His recent
work has been directed toward the demanding signal processing problems
arising from the various areas of mobile telecommunication. This work is
supported by research grants and contracts from various government and
industrial organizations.
Professor Constantinides has published several books and over 250 papers in
learned journals in the area of Digital Signal Processing and its
applications. He has served as the First President of the European
Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and has contributed in this
capacity to the establishment of the European Journal for Signal Processing.
He has been on, and is currently serving as, a member of many technical
program committees of the IEEE, the IEE and other international conferences.
He has organized the first ever international series of meetings on Digital
Signal Processing, in London initially in 1967, and in Florence (with Vito
Cappellini) since 1972. In 1985 he was awarded the Honor of Chevalier,
Palmes Academiques, by the French government, and in 1996, the promotion to
Officier, Palmes Academiques. He holds honorary doctorates from European and
Far Eastern Universities, several Visiting Professorships, Distinguished
Lectureships, Fellowships and other honors around the world.
Professor Constantinides presently is serving as a Member of the Board of
Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a member of several
Technical Committees of the IEEE and the IEE, and is on the Editorial Boards
of many professional journals.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(USA) and of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK). Professor
Constantindes is a member of AIT’s Academic Council.
Domdouzis, Dr. Konstantinos
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Dr. Domdouzis did his undergraduate studies at the University of Luton (now
renamed University of Bedfordshire) in England where he obtained the
Bachelors degree in Computer Science. He then continued to a Masters degree
in Computer Networks & Communications at the University of Westminster,
London.
After obtaining his Masters, Dr. Domdouzis was accepted for a PhD in the
Department of Civil & Building Engineering at Loughborough University,
England. The title of his PhD thesis is "Applications of Wireless Sensor
Technologies in Construction". Specific emphasis, during his PhD research,
was given to the use of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for
specific logistics and health and safety issues on the construction site.
After the completion of his PhD, Dr. Domdouzis was accepted as a
postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Agricultural &
Biological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a
position which he holds until now. His main focus is the systems informatics
and analysis task of the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) project. The EBI
project is a collaboration between British Petroleum (BP), the University of
Illinois at U-C, the University of California at Berkeley and the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the production of energy from
specific plants.
Ephremides, Prof. Anthony
Cynthia Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology
University of Maryland
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Anthony Ephremides holds the Cynthia Kim Professorship of Information
Technology at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the
University of Maryland in College Park where he holds a joint appointment at
the Institute for Systems Research, of which he was among the founding
members in 1986. He obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from
Princeton University in 1971 and has been with the University of Maryland
ever since.
He has held various visiting positions at other Institutions (including MIT,
UC Berkeley, ETH urich, INRIA, etc) and co-founded and co-directed a
NASA-funded Center on Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks in 1991.
He has been the President of Pontos, Inc, since 1980 and has served as
President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1987 and as a member of
the IEEE Board of Directors in 1989 and 1990. He has been the General Chair
and/or the Technical Program Chair of several technical conferences
(including the IEEE Information Theory Symposium in1991 and 2000, the IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control in 1986, the ACM Mobihoc in 2003, and the
IEEE Infocom in 1999). He has served on the Editorial Board of numerous
journals and was the Founding Director of the Fairchild Scholars and
Doctoral Fellows Program, a University-Industry Partnership from 1981 to
1985.
He has received the IEEE Donald E. Fink Prize Paper Award in 1991 and the
first ACM Achievement Award for Contributions to Wireless Networking in
1996, as well as the 2000 Fred W. Ellersick MILCOM Best Paper Award, the
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the 2000 Outstanding Systems Engineering
Faculty Award from the Institute for Systems Research, and the Kirwan
Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize from the University of Maryland in
2001, and a few other official recognitions of his work. He also received
the 2006 Aaron Wyner Award for Exceptional Service and Leadership to the
IEEE Information Theory Society.
He is the author of several hundred papers, conference presentations, and
patents, and his research interests lie in the areas of Communication
Systems and Networks and all related disciplines, such as Information
Theory, Control and Optimization, Satellite Systems, Queueing Models, Signal
Processing, etc. He is especially interested in Wireless Networks and Energy
Efficient Systems
Comment
I consider AIT to be a model education and research organization that is
equivalent to a first class University of North America. I have been very
impressed with the quality of the programs and the exceptional dedication
and talents of its staff. It is an organization that must be strengthened
and supported. It benefits not only the country but the fields of science
and engineering worldwide.
Georghiades, Prof. Costas
Delbert A. Whitaker Chair
Professor and Department Head
Texas A & M University
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Costas N. Georghiades received the B.E. degree with distinction from the
American University of Beirut in June 1980, and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees
from Washington University in May 1983 and May 1985, respectively, all in
Electrical Engineering. Since September 1985 he has been with the Electrical
& Computer Engineering department at Texas A&M University, where he is a
currently holder of the the Delbert A. Whitaker Endowed Chair and Department
Head. His general interests are in the application of information,
communication and estimation theories to the study of communication systems
and in particular wireless systems.
Dr. Georghiades is a Fellow of the IEEE and a registered Professional
Engineer in Texas. He served in editorial positions with the IEEE
Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, the IEEE
Communications Letters and the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications
and Networking. He has been involved in organizing a number of conferences,
including as Technical Program Chair for the 1997 IEEE Communication Theory
Mini Conference and the 1999 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Technical
Program Chair for the 2001 Communication Theory Workshop and general
Co-Chair of the 2004 Information Theory Workshop. He recently served as
Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Chair and as Chair of the
Communication/Signal Processing Cluster of the IEEE Communications Society.
He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communication Letters.
Dr. Georghiades was the recipient of the 1995 Texas A&M University College
of Engineering Halliburton Professorship and in 2002 the E.D. Brockett
Professorship. From 1997 to 2002 he was the J.W. Runyon Jr. Endowed
Professor and in 2002 he became the inaugural recipient of the Delbert A.
Whitaker Endowed Chair.
Comment
This is an exciting new initiative for an academic/research establishment in
Greece and I look forward to being an active participant.
Giannakis, Prof. Georgios B.
ADC Chair in Wireless Communications
University of Minnesota
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
G. B. Giannakis (IEEE Fellow\'97 and EURASIP Fellow\'08) received his
Diploma in Electrical Engr. from the Ntl. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece,
1981. From 1982 to 1986 he was with the Univ. of Southern California (USC),
where he received his MSc. in Electrical Engineering, 1983, MSc. in
Mathematics, 1986, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engr., 1986. Since 1999 he has
been a professor with the ECE Department at the Univ. of Minnesota, where he
now holds an ADC Chair in Wireless Telecommunications.
His general interests span the areas of communications, networking and
statistical signal processing - subjects on which he has published more than
275 journal papers, 450 conference papers, two edited books and two research
monographs. Current research focuses on complex-field and network coding,
multicarrier, cooperative wireless communications, cognitive radios,
cross-layer designs,mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks.
G.B. Giannakis is the (co-) recipient of six paper awards from the IEEE
Signal Processing (SP) and Communications Societies including the G. Marconi
Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications.
He also received Technical Achievement Awards from the SP Society (2000),
from EURASIP (2005), a Young Faculty Teaching Award and the G. W. Taylor
Award for Distinguished Research from the University of Minnesota. He has
served the IEEE in a number of posts, and is currently a Distinguished
Lecturer for the IEEE-SP Society.
Comment
We look forward to advancing private higher education in Greece and
establishing collaborative efforts in terms of join research projects,
student and faculty exchanges. It is a pleasure to see private graduate
institutions like AIT move forward in Greece's higher education system. Such
research and development centers of excellence will also improve public
universities as well as Greece's overall competitiveness, recognition and
collaborative efforts in science and technology within Europe and worldwide.
Paschalidis, Prof. Yannis
Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Co-Director of Center for Information and Systems Engineering Organizations
Boston University
Yannis Paschalidis is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering
at Boston University with a joint appointment in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Division of Systems Engineering.
He is a Co-Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE)
- a Boston University research center with 30 affiliated faculty and more
than $ 12 million in externally funded active research projects. He is also
affiliated with the BioMolecular Engineering Research Center (BMERC). Prof.
Paschalidis serves as the Academic Director of the Sensor Network Consortium
(SNC) - an industry consortium he spearheaded which currently consists of 14
companies focusing in sensor networks.
Prof. Paschalidis completed his graduate education at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) receiving an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996)
degree, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In September
1996 he joined Boston University where he has been ever since. He has held
visiting appointments with MIT, and the Columbia University Business School.
His current research interests lie in the fields systems and control,
networking, applied probability, optimization, operations research,
computational biology, and bioinformatics. Specifics applications of
interest include: communication and sensor networks, protein docking,
manufacturing systems, and supply chains. He has written extensively in
these areas having published more than 100 refereed publications.
His work on communication networks has been recognized with a CAREER award
(2000) from the National Science Foundation and the second prize in the 1997
George E. Nicholson paper competition by INFORMS. He was an invited
participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by the
National Academy of Engineering. He has served in the program committees of
several conferences, including, the INFORMS Applied Probability Conference,
the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the IEEE INFOCOM. He is a
senior member of the IEEE and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions
on Automatic Control and the Operations Research Letters.
Comment
I have visited the AIT and have been impressed with the quality of its
faculty and the excellent facilities.
Polydoros, Dr. Andreas
Founder, Chairman of Technical Advisory Board
TrellisWare
Dr. Polydoros is co-founder of TrellisWare and Chairman of its Technical
Advisory Board. He is widely recognized as one of the world's leading
experts in the field of communications theory, having published more than
100 technical papers in the area. He is co-inventor of PSP™ and co-holder of
its US patent. He has consulted extensively to the telecommunications
industry over the last two decades, was the recipient of a 1986 NSF
Presidential Young Investigator Award, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. His
research interests include statistical communication theory with
applications to transmission in uncertain environments, spread-spectrum
systems, OFDM and MIMO, signal detection and classification, and multi-user
radio networks. While an active contributor to TrellisWare, Dr. Polydoros
maintains his professor position in the Electronics Division at the
University of Athens in Greece. Dr. Polydoros holds a Ph.D in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Southern California, Masters Degree in
Electrical Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo, and a
Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from National Technical
University of Athens, Greece.
Prevedouros, Prof. Panos D.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Hawaii-Manoa
Panos D. Prevedouros, Ph.D. has been a Professor at the Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering of the University of Hawaii-Manoa since 1990.
Prof. Prevedouros graduated from the Aristotle University of Greece in 1984
and with Masters and Doctorate degrees in 1990 from Northwestern University,
a leading academic institution in engineering and transportation located in
greater Chicago, Illinois. He chairs the Freeway Simulation Subcommittee of
the Transportation Research Board. In August 2006 he became the president of
the Hawaii Highway Users Alliance.
Prof. Prevedouros co-authored Transportation Engineering and Planning and
over 100 reports and technical papers. He received the 2005 Van Wagoner
Award of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
He co-organized the 1st International Symposium on Freeway Operations in
Athens, Greece, and is organizing the 2nd Symposium in Honolulu in June
2009.
In summer 2008, took a leave of absence without pay from the UH to run for
Mayor of Honolulu. He came third after garnering 18% of the vote on the
September 20 Primary Election.
Comments:
The AIT is a breath of fresh air in the stagnant atmosphere of higher
education in Greece. Although relatively small, its facilities are
outstanding in quality and technology, and its faculty has stellar
credentials. The faculty are surrounded by highly educated and capable staff
that make AIT a specialized world class graduate education center. I am
proud to be a distant but loyal friend of AIT.
Proakis. Prof. John
Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University
Adjunct Professor at the ECE Department at
University of California
ECE Department
John Proakis is a Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University and an
Adjunct Professor at the ECE Department of the University of California in
San Diego. His research interests are in the areas of wireless
communications and digital signal processing. He is a member of the Academic
Advisory Committee of AIT.
Savakis, Prof. Andreas
Department Head of Computer Engineering Organization
Rochester Institute of Technology
Andreas Savakis is Professor and Department Head of Computer Engineering at
the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, New York.
He received the B.S. (Summa Cum Laude, 1984) and M.S. (1986) degrees from
Old Dominion University and the Ph.D. from North Carolina State University
(1991), all in Electrical Engineering. He then joined the University of
Rochester and University of Rochester Medical Center, where he conducted
research on pattern recognition, digital radiography, and visual memory.
From 1996 to 2000 he was with the Eastman Kodak Company, as a member of
Advanced Development in Business Imaging Systems and Senior Research
Associate at the Kodak Research Labs. His research at Kodak ranged from
document rendering to image understanding, segmentation and compression. Dr.
Savakis joined RIT in 2000 and soon took on the responsibility of department
head. Computer Engineering at RIT experienced significant growth in its
faculty, staff and research activities, and recently relocated to a new
building with expanded state-of-the-art facilities.
His research interests span the areas of image processing and computer
vision. Recent work deals with object detection and activity recognition in
multi-camera environments. Dr. Savakis is senior member of the IEEE and
member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi. He served as Chair of the
Rochester Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Treasurer of the
IEEE Rochester Section and was presented with the IEEE Third Millennium
Medal. His research collaboration with Kodak through the Center for
Electronic Imaging Systems was recognized by the NYSTAR Technology Transfer
Award for Economic Impact in 2006.
Comment
I had the opportunity to visit AIT in early 2008 and I was very impressed by
the quality and dedication of its faculty and technical staff. AIT’s
environment provides excellent support for a number of important projects
and offers opportunities for collaboration with other academic institutions
and industrial partners. I look forward to AIT’s contributions to the global
technical community and its positive impact on the educational and economic
growth of Greece in years to come.
Twala, Mr. Reason
Research Assistant
National University of Science and Technology,
Zimbabwe
Computer Science Department
ECE Department
Mr. Twala is the Acting Chief Computer Systems Administrator at the Computer
Science Department of theNational University of Science and Technology (NUST)
in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. His topic of research is "Techniques for the
construction of reliable high bandwidth multimedia networks based on
Open/Free source software that support E-Learning" and is particularly
interested in PhD research in the area of wireless computer networks. Mr.
Twala has co-written and presented research papers at a regional
conferences.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Current Research Activities
Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) in Computer Communications and Networks,
Computer Science Department.
Thesis Topic: Techniques in the construction of reliable high bandwidth
multimedia networks based on open/free source software that support
E-learning.
Broadband Wireless Communications: 3G, GSM, Cellular, Satellite, Wi-Fi and
WiMAX applications and their security issues are considered. The research
explores on the recent ground breaking research efforts in above
technologies and their possible applications particularly in the third world
countries.
Business, Community Informatics: Techniques of wireless technology or ICT
that can be utilised to effect development or bridging the digital divide in
rural or inaccessible areas and businesses in third world countries like
Zimbabwe. The research sensitises on the growing gap between the developed
and the developing world, the role of ICT in this process, and its impact on
the excluded and included sectors of society, especially with reference to
current globalization trends.
High-speed high bandwidth multimedia networks: Applications of
Ethernet/Optic fibre/Wireless LANs, WANs, MANs in Communities, Institutions
of higher learning, Enterprises and their security concerns are considered
.The research serves to sensitize readers, researchers, especially senior
management, but also donors, governments, universities, private sector, and
NGOs in the developed world, who influence the use of ICT in third world
countries, either directly or indirectly.
Information and Communication Technology for development (ICT4D): This
research gives a critical debate on the role of ICT in the development
process and to contribute to more informed decision-making concerning ICT
development, adaptation, transfer and utilization. One issue that will be
investigated, among others, is the question of whether ICT can be used to
bridge the digital divide, and if so, what are the conditions which may be
required for such technology to help narrow the gap between the haves and
the have-nots.