Ioannis Krikidis (S’03-M’07-SM’12) received the diploma in Computer Engineering from the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID) of the University of Patras, Greece, in 2000, and the M.Sc and Ph.D degrees from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France, in 2001 and 2005, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 2006 to 2007 he worked, as a Post-Doctoral researcher, with ENST, Paris, France, and from 2007 to 2010 he was a Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Electronics at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. He has held also research positions at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame; the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland; the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg; and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Niigata University, Japan. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. His current research interests include information theory, wireless communications, cooperative communications, cognitive radio and secrecy communications. Dr. Krikidis serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, IEEE TRANSACTIONSON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, Elsevier TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES and was a Guest-Editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Special Issue MIMO relays for cooperative wireless networks) in 2012. He was the Technical Program Co-Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology 2013. He received an IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS and an IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS exemplary reviewer certificate in 2012. He received the «Research Award Young Researcher» from the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus, in 2013.

Communication Theory, Wireless Communications, MIMO Communications, Cooperative Networks, Relay Channel, Sensor Networks, Green Radio, Energy Harvesting, RF Energy Transfer, Cognitive Radio, Physical-layer Security, Resource Allocation, Convex Optimization, Queuing Theory, Probability Theory, Performance Analysis, High Order Statistics, Information Theory, Reconfigurability.