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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 (TEES) from 2013-2016. He is
currently serving as Senior Associate Vice President for Research at Texas
A&M. 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 a number of
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.
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 Society’s Communication Theory Technical Committee Service
Award and in 2021 the Texas A&M College of Engineering Excellence Award
for Service.
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