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 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 St. Louis in May 1983
and May 1985, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. Since September
1985 he has been with the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
department at Texas A&M University, where he holds the Delbert A.
Whitaker Endowed Chair. He served as ECE Department Head from 2005 to 2012,
as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering from 2012-2016
and as Associate Agency Director for the Texas A&M Engineering
Experiment Station from 2013-2016. In 2016 he moved to the Division of
Research at Texas A&M as Senior Associate Vice President for Research
with responsibilities including centers and institutes, strategic initiatives and core faculties. He moved back to his
department on September 1, 2022, and served as Interim Director of the
Global Cyber Research Institute (GCRI), stepping down on August 1, 2023.
Since January 1, 2023, he is serving as Interim Department Head of ECE. His
general research interests are in the application of information,
communication, and estimation theories to the study of communication systems
and in particular wireless and optical communication systems.
Dr. Georghiades is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He served in editorial positions for several
journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, the IEEE Journal on Selected
Areas in Communications, and the IEEE Communications Letters where for the latter he also served as
Editor-in-Chief. He has been involved in organizing several
conferences, including as Technical Program Chair for the 1997 IEEE
Communication Theory Mini Conference, the 1999 IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conference, and the 2001 Communication Theory Workshop,
and as General Co-Chair of the 2004 Information Theory
Workshop and the 2010
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. In other service, he
served as Chair of the Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC),
Chair of the IEEE Information Theory Society’s Fellows Committee, Chair of
the IEEE Wireless Communication Letters Steering Committee and as a member
of the IEEE Hamming Medal Committee. More recently, he served in the IEEE
Fellows Committee and the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Awards Committee.
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. In 2012 he received the IEEE
Communication Theory Technical Committee Service Award and in 2021 the
Texas A&M College of Engineering Excellence Award for Service.
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