I received my Bachelor and Master´s degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1994 and 1997 respectively, and my PhD in the area of Broadband Indoor Wireless Communications from the Signal Theory and Communications Department of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona in 2000.

Since 2020, I am an Associate Professor with the University of Patras (Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics) and a Collaborating Faculty member with the Industrial Systems Institute (ISI) in Patras since 2022. From 2004 to 2021 I was with the Catalan Technological Centre of Telecommunications (CTTC) in Barcelona Spain.

My research is focused in AI-aided 5G/6G networks, Network slicing, Resource Management, Network Virtualization, Zero-Touch networks and Micro-Grids design. Other topics in which I have been active include MAC protocols for WiFi and WBAN, Cross-Layer PHY/MAC design, multi-user MIMO, Network Coding, Cooperative Communications, Energy Efficiency in infrastructure sharing wireless networks.

My research work has been published in 160  journal papers (75% of them in the first quartile) and more than 240 conference papers. I am also co-author of 5 published books while I have filled 4 granted patents. My research work has received more than 10,000 citations.

My reseach has been supported by several European and national, Spanish and Greek, grants with a cumulative value of 15M€. I have been coordinator of 15 EC funded projects and around 10 projects funded by Spanish and Greek authorities. 

In the context of the research projects that I participate or coordinate, I maintain close collaborations with research teams from top tier universities and research centres as well as big industrial vendors such as Ericsson, National Instruments, Airbuss, NEC, Intracom, SIEMENS, Infineon, ST Microelectronics and telecom operators such as OTE/COSMOTE, ORANGE, Telenor.

My research outcomes have been acknowledged by several awards in international Symposiums and Conferences like IEEE ICC (2011, 2014 & 2020), IEEE GLOBECOM (2015) etc.

I am currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Networking Letters and as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and of the IEEE Networks Magazine. I have also served as a Guest Editor in special issues of Journals and Magazines like IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Networks Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine etc..).

I am currently an  IEEE ComSoc GITC member  while I served ComSoc from other managerial positions like IEEE ComSoc GITC Vice-Chair, IEEE ComSoc EMEA Director (2020-2021), IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors (2020-2021) and Vice-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committees Board (2019-2020).

I was the General Chair/Co-Chair for conferences like IEEE CAMAD 2022, inaugural IEEE MeditCom 2021, and TPC vice-chair in flagship conferences like IEEE Globecom 2022.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gea_UZIAAAAJ&hl=en

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christos-verikoukis-371785/ 

email: chverik [at] gmail [dot] com