Biography

Thanasis Korakis is a Research Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Polytechnic University. He is also affiliated with the New York State Center for Advanced Technologies in Telecommunications (CATT) and WICAT at Polytechnic Institute of NYU. His research focuses on access layer protocols, cooperative networks, directional antennas, quality of service provisioning and network management. He participates in several research projects that are founded by CATT/WICAT and are strongly supported by the industry. He leads the Wireless Implementation Testbed Laboratory (Witest Lab) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU.

Dr. Korakis obtained the Bachelor and the M.S. degree in Informatics and Telecommunications from the University of Athens, Greece, in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer and Communication Engineering from the University of Thessaly, Greece in 2005, under the supervision of Professor Leandros Tassiulas. His Ph.D. work focused on quality of service provisioning in broadband wireless networks with directional antennas. During his Ph.D. he was a Research Assistant with the Center for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), participating in several research projects. In the summer of 2004 he was a Visiting Researcher at the Computer Science & Engineering Department in the University of California, Riverside, working under the supervision of Professor Srikanth krisnamurthy. From 2005 to 2006 he was a Research Scientist associated with the New York State Center for Advanced Technologies in Telecommunications (CATT) and the Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT) at Polytechnic Institute of NYU.

Dr. Korakis follows the standardization activities for 802.11 and 802.16 very closely. Since March 2007, he is a voting member of the IEEE 802.16 standardization group as well as a regular participant in the meetings held. He is the Finance Chair of ITW 2009. He served as a Publication Chair of WiOpt 2007 and as a member of the Technical Program Committee of ICC 2008, WCNC 2008 and SECON 2008. Dr. Korakis received a scholarship for his Ph.D. studies from the Greek State Scholarship's Foundation (IKY). He was also awarded the Ericsson Award of Excellence in Telecommunications for work related to his Ph.D. in 2006.

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