Michalis Matthaiou is a Professor of Communications Engineering and Signal Processing at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), UK, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI). He holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2004), an M.Sc. (Distinction) from the University of Bristol (2005), and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh (2008). Prior roles include Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and postdoctoral research at TU Munich (Germany). His research focuses on signal processing for wireless communications, massive MIMO, intelligent reflecting surfaces, and AI-driven systems. He leads a team of 20 researchers under multi-million-pound grants, including the ERC Consolidator Grant BEATRICE (2021–2026). **Affiliations**: Centre for Wireless Innovation, Institute of Electronics, Communications & Information Technology **Awards**: IEEE Fellow (2023), Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2017), EURASIP Early Career Award (2019) His work spans over 340 publications (140+ journal papers) and includes groundbreaking contributions to wireless systems. He supervises PhD students in areas like edge computing, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and millimeter-wave systems. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Physical Communication and Senior Editor for IEEE journals.






