Dr. Costas N. Georghiades

Biography

Costas N. Georghiades earned his D.Sc. from Washington University in 1985, then joined Texas A&M’s Electrical Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor. Over a 39-year career at A&M, he held several positions, starting with the J.W. Runyon Jr. Professorship in 1997, followed by the Delbert A. Whitaker Chair in 2002. As Department Head from 2005 to 2012, Georghiades oversaw significant growth, hiring over 22 faculty in College Station and 8 faculty in its branch department at Texas A&M at Qatar, increasing the department’s external funding six-fold. The department also had the largest number of NSF CAREER Awardees in the college of engineering, including two of the three Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

In 2012 he became Associate Dean for Research within the College of Engineering and then Associate Agency Director for the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), helping restructure TEES in his portfolio areas of Strategic Initiatives and Centers. In 2016 he was appointed to Senior Associate Vice President for Research within the Division of Research (DOR) where his portfolio included overseeing Research Development Services, High-Performance Research Computing, Research Core Facilities and Strategic Research Engagement. He stepped down from his DOR position in 2022, serving as Interim Director of the Global Cyber Research Institute through August 2023 and from January 2023 to January 31, 2025, as Interim Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Recognized by his professional society as an IEEE Fellow in 1998, Georghiades served in several editorial positions, including as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communication Letters, the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He also served in conference leadership positions, including as General Co-Chair for the 2004 IEEE Information Theory Workshop and the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. More recently, he served in several IEEE-level committees, including the Fellows Committee, the Hamming Medal Committee, and the Eric Sumner Award Committee. His service activities earned him the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee Service Award, and his academic service the Texas A&M College of Engineering Excellence Award for Service.