• Interim Vice President for Research
  • Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Delbert A. Whitaker Chair
  • Affiliated Faculty, Multidisciplinary Engineering
Costas N. Georghiades

Educational Background

  • D.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Washington University – 1985
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, Washington University – 1983
  • B.E., Electrical Engineering, American University of Beirut – 1980

Research Interests

    • Statistical communication theory
    • Receiver design
    • Mobile radio (multipath/fading channels)
    • Synchronization and equalization
    • Distributed source and space-time coding
    • Interference rejection techniques
    • Multicarrier modulation
    • Optical and magnetic recording channels

Certifications & Memberships

  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Awards & Honors

  • Brocket Professorship – 2002
  • J.W. Runyon, Jr., Professorship – 1997
  • Halliburton Professor, Texas A&M University – 1995

Selected Publications

  • Georghiades, C.N. et al. An EM-Based Channel Estimation Algorithm For OFDM With Transmitter Diversity, IEEE Transactions on Communication, January 2003.
  • Georghiades, C.N. et al. An Efficient Implementation of a Maximum-Likelihood Detector for Space-Time Block Coded Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications.
  • Georghiades, C.N. et al. Topology-Transparent TDMA Broadcast Scheduling in Multihop Packet Radio Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  • Georghiades, C.N. et al. On the Performance of a Novel Quasi-Synchronous Trellis-Coded CDMA System, IEEE Transactions on Communications, December 2002.
  • Georghiades, C.N. et al. New Non-orthogonal Space-time Block Codes for 3-TX Antennas, IEE Electronic Letters, November 2002.
  • Georghiades, C.N. et al. Compression of Binary Sources with Side Information at the Decoder Using LDPC Codes, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 6, No. 10, pp. 440-442, October 2002.
  • Georghiades, C.N. et al. A Distributed Source Coding Technique for Correlated Images Using Turbo-Codes, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 6, No. 9, pp. 379-381, September 2002.
  • Georghiades, C.N. et al. Improved Upper Bounds on Error Probability for Biorthogonal Trellis-Coded CDMA Systems, IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 6, No. 9, pp. 361-363, September 2002.
  • Georghiades, C.N. et al. Iterative Multiuser Detection for Turbo-Coded CDMA in Multipath Fading, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  • Georghiades, C.N. et al. A Space-Time Block-Coded OFDM Scheme for Unknown Frequency-Selective Fading Channels, IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 5, pp. 393-395, October 2001.