Keynote Speaker I
Prof. George K. Karagiannidis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
(IEEE Fellow and Web-of-Science Highly Cited Researcher)
Dr. George K. Karagiannidis: was born in Pithagorion Town, Samos
island, Greece. He received his university degree in 1987 and
his PhD degree in 1998, both in Electrical Engineering, from the
University of Patras, Patras, Greece. From 2001 to 2004 he was
Researcher at the Institute for Space Applications and Remote
Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Greece. In June 2004,
he joined the Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. of
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece where he is
currently Professor of Digital Communications Systems and
Director of the Telecommunications Systems and Networks Lab.
His research interests include Wireless Communications, Wireless
Power Transfer and Applications, Optical Wireless
Communications, Communications and Signal Processing for
Biomedical Engineering and Wireless Security.
Dr. Karagiannidis has published and presented more than 500
technical papers in scientific journals and international
conferences. His work has received more than 17000 citations,
with h-index=73 (Source: Google Scholar).
He is co-recipient of the Best Paper Award of the Wireless
Communications Symposium (WCS) in IEEE International Conference
on Communications (ICC’07), Glasgow, UK, June 2007, the Best
Paper Award in IEEE VTC 2018 (Spring), Porto, June 2018 and
several other awards
Dr. Karagiannidis was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society (VTS), from July 1, 2011 to June
31, 2015 and former Chair of the IEEE Communications Society
Greek Chapter. He is Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Communications Society, from Jan 1, 2018 to Dec 31, 2019.
He is a Fellow IEEE, recognized for his “Contributions to the
performance analysis of wireless communication systems”. From
January 2012 to December 2015, he was the Editor-in-Chief of
IEEE Communications Letters.
He is one of the most highly-cited authors across all areas of
Electrical Engineering, recognized as 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018
Web-of-Science highly-cited researcher.
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Keynote Speaker II
Prof.Andrea Massa
University of Trento, Italy
(IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, Electromagnetic Academy Fellow)
Dr. Andrea Massa: is Full
Professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the University of Trento,
where he currently teaches electromagnetic fields, inverse
scattering techniques, antennas and wireless communications,
wireless services and devices, and optimization techniques.
At present, Prof. Massa is the director of the network of
federated laboratories “ELEDIA Research Center” [ELEDIA@UTB in
Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei), ELEDIA@UESTC in Chengdu (China),
ELEDIA@USIL in Lima (Perù), ELEDIA@UniNAGA in Nagasaki (Japan),
ELEDIA@L2S in Paris (France), ELEDIA@CTU in Prague (Czech),
ELEDIA@UniTN in Trento (Italy), ELEDIA@TSINGHUA in Beijing
(China), ELEDIA@Innov’COM in Tunis (Tunisia)]. Moreover, he is
Adjunct Professor at Penn State University (USA), Professor @
CentraleSupélec (France), and UC3M-Santander Chair of Excellence
at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). He has been
holder of a Senior DIGITEO Chair at L2S-CentraleSupélec and CEA
LIST in Saclay (France), Visiting Professor at the Missouri
University of Science and Technology (USA), the Nagasaki
University (Japan), the University of Paris Sud (France), the
Kumamoto University (Japan), and the National University of
Singapore (Singapore). It has been appointed IEEE AP-S
Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2018).
Prof. Massa serves as Associate Editor of the “IEEE Transaction
on Antennas and Propagation” and Associate Editor of the
“International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies”
and he is member of the Editorial Board of the “Journal of
Electromagnetic Waves and Applications”, a permanent member of
the “PIERS Technical Committee” and of the “EuMW Technical
Committee”, and a ESoA member. He has been appointed in the
Scientific Board of the “Società Italiana di Elettromagnetismo
(SIEm)” and elected in the Scientific Board of the
Interuniversity National Center for Telecommunications (CNIT).
He has been appointed in 2011 by the National Agency for the
Evaluation of the University System and National Research
(ANVUR) as a member of the Recognized Expert Evaluation Group
(Area 09, ‘Industrial and Information Engineering’) for the
evaluation of the researches at the Italian University and
Research Center for the period 2004-2010. Furthermore, he has
been elected as the Italian Member of the Management Committee
of the COST Action TU1208 “Civil Engineering Applications of
Ground Penetrating Radar”.
His research activities are mainly concerned with inverse
problems, analysis/synthesis of antenna systems and large
arrays, radar systems synthesis and signal processing,
cross‐layer optimization and planning of wireless/RF systems,
semantic wireless technologies, system-by-design and
material‐by‐design (metamaterials and reconfigurable‐materials),
and theory/applications of optimization techniques to
engineering problems (tele-communications, medicine, and
biology).
Prof. Massa published more than 700 scientific publications
(partial list available at:
http://eledia.science.unitn.it/index.php/ricerca/pubblicazioni)
among which about 300 on international journals and more than
450 in international conferences where he presented more than
150 invited contributions. He has organized more than 70
scientific sessions in international conferences and has
participated to several technological projects in the European
framework (20 EU Projects) as well as at the national and local
level with national agencies (more than 150 Projects/Grants).
Invite Speaker I
Asso. Prof. Lazaros Nalpantidis
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Dr. Lazaros Nalpantidis: is an Associate Professor of cognitive
robotics in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical
University of Denmark (DTU). Before, he was an Associate
Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Aalborg University
Copenhagen, Denmark, where he also served as Head of Section for
Sustainable Production within the Department for Materials and
Production. He holds a B.Sc. (2003) in Physics and a M.Sc.
(2005) (with Honors) in Electronic Engineering from Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He received a Ph.D. (2010)
in Robotic Vision from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.
He has been a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for
Autonomous Systems (CAS), Computer Vision & Active Perception
Lab. (CVAP) of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden.
Lazaros organized and chaired the 10th International Conference
on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2015) in Copenhagen,
co-organized various workshops on Cognitive Robotics, and has
served as editor and guest editor in various journals on
robotics and robot vision. He has been involved in numerous
research projects funded by the European Commission, European
Space Agency, as well as Greek, Swedish and Danish states.