Biography:
 

G. B. Giannakis received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1981. From September 1982  to July 1986 he was with the University of Southern California (USC), where he received his MSc. in Electrical Engineering, 1983, MSc. in Mathematics, 1986, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1986. After lecturing for one year at USC, he joined the University of Virginia in 1987, where he became a professor of Electrical Engineering in 1997. Since 1999 he has been a professor with the  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he now holds an ADC Chair in Wireless Telecommunications. His general interests span the areas of communications and signal processing, estimation and detection theory, time-series analysis, and system identification -- subjects on which he has published more than 140 journal papers, 270 conference papers, and two edited books. Current research topics focus on transmitter and receiver diversity techniques for single- and multi-user fading communication channels,
complex-field and space-time coding for block transmissions, multicarrier, and (ultra) wide-band wireless communication systems.