Theodore Chinis Theodore Chinis received his BSc from the Department of Electronics, School of Technological Applications of the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens in 2002. His undergraduate thesis was the Implementation of a Digital Finite Impulse Response Low-Pass Filter in Real Time Using the ADSP-2181 by Analog Devices.
He then received an MSc by Research in 2004 from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, UK. His dissertation focused on digital signal processing, entitled Immersive Audio Rendering Algorithms.
Professionally, he has worked in the Research and Development Department of Intracom, implementing real-time digital signal processing applications and completing his internship there.
He also worked in the Research and Development Department of MARAK S.A., implementing applications using microcontrollers.
He was employed by Olympic Airlines S.A. as an aircraft electronics technician, dealing with repairs of avionics equipment both on the bench and onboard the aircraft.
Upon the company’s closure in 2010, he was transferred to the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority as an electronics technician until 2018. He then transferred to the National Observatory of Athens for two years, and finally, with a new transfer, joined the Hellenic Air Force, where he works to this day as an electronics engineer.
He holds a drone operator license as well as certificates in offshore sailing and rigid inflatable boat operation.
Kostas Peppas received the Dipl. – Ing. and Dr. – Ing. degrees in Electrical Engineering both from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1997 and 2004, respectively. From 2010-2014, Dr Peppas has been affiliated with the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, working in the areas of wireless communications as a post doctoral researcher. In 2014, he joined the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese, where he is currently a faculty member. His current research interests include Wireless Networks, Digital Communications over Fading Channels, MIMO systems, Cooperative Communications, System Level Performance Evaluation of Wireless Systems, Smart Antennas, Optical Wireless Communications, Cognitive Radio, Digital Signal Processing and Applied Mathematics. Dr. Peppas is the author or co-author of over 60 journal and conference papers in the above areas. Dr Peppas is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the IEEE Communications Society and the Technical Chamber of Greece. Dr Peppas acts as a Reviewer for several international journals and conferences (including the IEEE and The Institute of Engineering and Technology). He has also been a member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of several international conferences.
Georgia P. Karatza was born in Athens, Greece, in 1974. She received the BSc degree from the Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Zografou, Greece, in 1998, with specialization in applied mathematics, the MSc degree in Advanced Telecommunications Systems and Networks from the University of Peloponnese, Tripoli, Greece, in 2016, and the PhD in 2020, also from the University of Peloponnese. Her research interests include wireless digital communications, and specifically MIMO and cooperative systems, fading channels, and communication theory issues. She has been a faculty in mathematics in public high school from 2008.
Michael C. Batistatos received the bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, in 2000, and the M.Sc. degree in Digital Communications Systems from Loughborough University, Loughborough, U.K., in 2001. He has been a telecommunication field engineer with the leading telecommunications company Intracom Telecom, Athens, Greece, he has been an IT and Telecommunications Teacher with private and public educational organizations, he has been participated in European telecommunications projects, he has been worked with the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of National Research Center “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece and since 2008 he has been a Laboratory Teaching Staff Member with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Peloponnese, Tripolis, Greece. His current research interest includes UAV systems (drones), UAV communications and future wireless communications systems and applications.
Manolis Bozis received his Diploma degree (1998), from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki and a B.Sc. in economics from the University of Peloponnese (2009). He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science (2012) and an M.Sc. in Modern Wireless Communications (2021), both from the University of Peloponnese. His research interests involve software defined radio platforms, wireless communication systems and open-source communication software. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece since 1998.
