Thanasis Korakis

Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece

Thanasis Korakis was born on December 4, 1972 in Ioannina, Greece. He obtained the Bachelor and the M.S. degree in Inform. and Telecom. from the Univ. of Athens, Greece in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He obtained the PhD degree in Computer and Com/tion Eng. from the Univ. of Thessaly, Greece in 2005, under the supervision of Prof. Leandros Tassiulas. In the summer of 2004 he was a visiting researcher at the Computer Science & Eng. from the Univ. of California, Riverside. He is a lecturer in Computer and Com/tion Eng. in the University of Thessaly, Greece. From 2005 to 2010 he was a research assistant professor in the ECE, Polytechnic Institute of NYU. His research interests lie in the area of wireless networks, with expertise in protocol prototyping and wireless testbeds. He has published more than 60 papers and holds 5 patents. He has been the PI for several NSF projects in USA including the GENI WiMAX project, the GEMI project and an EAGER NSF grant on federating EU and USA testbed facilities. He has also participated in several EU projects including Onelab, Openlab, FIBRE, FED4FIRE. He was the general chair of TRIDENTCOM 2012 and WINTECH 2011 and the TPC chair of TRIDENTCOM 2011. Since 2007 he has been a voting member of the IEEE 802.16 standardization group.