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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 department at Texas A&M
University, where he is a currently holder of 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. Over time 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 and the 1999 IEEE Vehicular
Technology Conference, Technical Program Chair for the 2001 Communication
Theory Workshop, general Co-Chair of the 2004 Information
Theory Workshop and as
General Co-Chair of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory. In other service, he served as Chair of the Communication Theory
Technical Committee (CTTC), in the IEEE Communication Society’s Awards
Committee and as Chair for the IEEE Information Theory Society’s Fellows
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.
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