Costas Georghiades
Candidate's Statement
We live in a constantly changing world where success means being able to innovate and adapt. ComSoc must thus be willing and able to adapt and evolve into emerging areas to maintain relevance and continue to provide value to its members. This can be done by adapting our conferences and journals to include new areas related to ComSoc’s core communication area. We must also do what we can to increase participation of our members in ComSoc activities and to make it easier for students to be involved, as these students represent the future of the Society.
There are many other worthwhile goals for a candidate to pursue, but if elected, I will focus on the above two goals maintaining relevance by keeping abreast of emerging areas through our publications and conferences and in further opening up processes to make it easier for our members and students to participate.
Biography
Costas Georghiades received all his degrees in electrical engineering, including a D.Sc. degree from Washington University in 1985. He joined Texas A&M University and he is currently Department Head and holder of the Delbert A. Whitaker Endowed Chair.
Costas is an IEEE Fellow. He has served in editorial positions with several IEEE journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Communications, Information Theory, JSAC and IEEE Communications Letters. He served on the ComSoc’s Awards Committee and as Committee Chair for the Joint IT/ComSoc Best Paper Award. He was recently Chair of the Communication Theory Technical Committee and Cluster Chair of the Communications/Signal Processing Cluster, as well as Chair of the Information Theory Society’s Fellows Evaluation Committee.
Costas has been involved in organizing several conferences, including ICC and GLOBECOM and recently as TPC of the 2001 and 2005 Communication Theory Workshops and as General co-Chair of the 2004 Information Theory Workshop. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communication Letters.
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