George N. Karystinos

George N. Karystinos is currently a Professor and Dean of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete, Greece. He joined TUC in 2005 and was promoted to full Professor in 2019. His academic journey began with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from SUNY Buffalo (2003) and a Diploma in Computer Engineering and Science from the University of Patras (1997).

• Specialty: Communication theory, coding theory, adaptive signal processing
• Key research areas: Wireless communications, signal waveform design, L1-norm principal component analysis
• Leadership: Dean of School of ECE (2021–present)

His work focuses on noncoherent detection for RFID/IoT systems and L1-norm PCA for robust signal processing. Recent publications explore power line communication and low-complexity sequence detection.

Scientific Awards:

• 2003 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award
• 2001 IEEE ICT Best Paper Award
• 2018 IEEE MOCAST Best Student Paper Award
• 2015 IEEE ICASSP Best Student Paper Award
• 2013 IEEE ISWCS Best Paper Award
• 2011 IEEE RFID-TA Second Best Student Paper Award

He is affiliated with the Telecommunications Laboratory at TUC and has supervised award-winning research in wireless systems and signal processing.