George Sklivanitis, Ph.D.

George Sklivanitis received the Diploma degree in electronic and computer engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 2018. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor with I-SENSE and the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests span the areas of signal processing, software-defined wireless communications and networking, cognitive radio, and underwater acoustic communications.

In 2014, he was the first finalist and was a recipient of the 2014 Nutaq Software-Defined Radio Academic U.S. National Contest and in 2015 he received the Best Demo Award in the 10th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems. He was also a recipient of the 2015 SUNY Buffalo Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2016 SUNY Buffalo Student Entrepreneur Fellowship, and the 2017 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. Dr. Sklivanitis is a member of the IEEE Communications, IEEE Signal Processing, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Societies and serves as the co-organizer and TPC co-chair of the IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (WCNEE) since 2017.