P. Takis Mathiopoulos

P. Takis Mathiopoulos (SM’94) received the Ph.D. degree in digital communications from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 1989. From 1982 to 1986, he was with Raytheon Canada Ltd., working in the areas of air navigational and satellite communications. In 1989, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, BC, Canada, as an Assistant Professor and where he was a Faculty Member, until 2003, holding the rank of a Professor, from 2000 to 2003. From 2000 to 2014, he was the Director and then the Director of Research with the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing (ISARS), National Observatory of Athens (NOA), where he established the Wireless Communications Research Group. From 2000 to 2004, as the ISARS Director, he led the Institute to a significant expansion in R&D growth and international scientific recognition. For these achievements, ISARS has been selected as the National Centre of Excellence, from 2005 to 2008. From 2008 to 2013, he was a Guest Professor with Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. He has also been appointed by the Government of China as a Senior Foreign Expert with the School of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, from 2014 to 2017, and also with the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, as a Guest Professor (Global), from 2015 to 2016 and from 2017 to 2018, respectively, under the Top Global University Project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of the Government of Japan. Since 2014, he has been a Professor of telecommunications with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. For the last 25 years, he has been conducting research mainly on the physical layer of digital communication systems for terrestrial and satellite applications, and in the fields of remote sensing and the Internet of Things. In these areas, he has coauthored more than 120 journal papers published mainly in various IEEE journals, one book (edited), five book chapters, and more than 140 conference papers. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committees (TPC) of more than 70 international IEEE conferences. As a Faculty Member UBC, he received an Advanced Systems Institute (ASI) Fellowship and a Killam Research Fellowship. He was also a co-recipient of two best conference paper awards. In 2017, he has been presented by the Satellite and Space Communication Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society their 2017 award for outstanding contributions in the field of satellite and Space communications. He has been a TPC Vice Chair for the 2006-S IEEE VTC and 2008-F IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), and a Co-Chair of the International Conference on Future Information Technology (FITCE) 2011 and AUTOMOTIVE17. He has regularly served as a consultant for various governmental and private organizations. He has been or currently serves on the editorial board of several archival journals, including the IET Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Communications, from 1993 to 2005. Since 1993, he has been serving on a regular basis as a Scientific Advisor and a Technical Expert for the European Commission (EC). From 2001 to 2014, he has served as a Greek Representative to high-level committees in the EC and the European Space Agency. He has delivered numerous invited presentations, including plenary and keynote lectures, and has taught many short courses all over the world.