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Academy of Sciences, in Moscow, Russia, since May
2018. He serves on the Advisory Board for the newly es-
tablished research center called Technology Innovation
Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
since June 2020. He is the President of the Truva Inc.
since March 1989 and Scientific Advisor for the newly es-
tablished company Airanaculus since April 2020. He is a
Visiting Distinguished Professor with the SSN College of
Andreas Pitsillides is a Professor in the Depart- Engineering in Chennai, India since October 2019. Dr.
ment of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, heads Akyildiz is an Adjunct Professor with the Department
NetRL, the Networks Research Laboratory he founded of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Univer-
in 2002, and is appointed Visiting Professor at the sity of Iceland since September 2020. He is the Ken
University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), School of Byers Chair Professor Emeritus in Telecommunications
Electrical and Information engineering, Johannesburg, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Direc-
South Africa. Earlier (2014-2017) Andreas was ap- tor of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory
pointed Visiting Professor at the University of Johan- and Former Chair of the Telecom Group from 1985-
nesburg, Department of Electrical and Electronic En- 2020. He is also former Finnish Distinguished Professor
gineering Science, South Africa. His broad research with the University of Tampere, Finland, supported by
interests include communication networks (fixed and the Finnish Academy of Sciences from 2012-2016. He
mobile/wireless), Nanonetworks and Software Defined is the founder of NanoNetworking Center and Former
Metasurfaces/Metamaterials, the Internet- and Web- of Honorary Professor at the University of Politecnica de
Things, Smart Spaces (Home, Grid, City), and Internet Cataluna in Barcelona from 2008-2017. Dr. Akyildiz is
technologies and their application in Mobile e-Services, also former Distinguished Professor and Founder of the
especially e-health, and security. He has a particular Advanced Wireless Networks Lab with the King Ab-
interest in adapting tools from various fields of applied dulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 2011-
mathematics such as adaptive non-linear control theory, 2018. He is also the Founder of the Advanced Wireless
computational intelligence, game theory, and recently Sensor Networks lab and former ExtraOrdinary Profes-
complex systems and nature inspired techniques, to sor with the University of Pretoria, South Africa from
solve problems in communication networks. He has pub- 2007-2012.
lished over 270 referred papers in flagship journals (e.g. He is the Founder and Editor in Chief of the newly es-
IEEE, Elsevier, IFAC, Springer), international confer- tablished ITU J-FET (International Telecommunication
ences and book chapters, 2 books (one edited), par- Union Journal for Future and Evolving Technologies
ticipated in over 30 European Commission and locally since July 2020. Dr. Akyildiz is Editor-in-Chief Emer-
funded research projects as principal or co-principal in- itus of Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier) (1999-
vestigator, received several awards, including best pa- 2019), the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the
per, presented keynotes, invited lectures at major re- Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) (2003-2019), the
search organisations, short courses at international con- founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Physical Com-
ferences and short courses to industry, and serves/served munication (PHYCOM) Journal (Elsevier) (2008-2017),
on several journal and conference executive committees. and the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Nano
Communication Networks (NANOCOMNET) Journal
(Elsevier) (2010-2017). Dr. Akyildiz launched many
IEEE and ACM conferences. He is an IEEE Fel-
low (1995) and ACM Fellow (1996) and received nu-
merous awards from IEEE and ACM and other pro-
fessional organizations. His current research inter-
ests are in 6G Wireless Systems, Reconfigurable Intel-
ligent Surfaces, Terahertz Communications, Nanonet-
works, Internet of xThings (x=Underwater, Under-
ground, Space/CubeSats, Nano and BioNano). He
Ian F. Akyildiz received his BS, MS, and PhD de-
graduated 45 PhD students and 30 of them are in
grees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the
academia in very prestigious academic positions world-
University of Erlangen-N¨ı¿œrnberg, Germany, in 1978,
wide. He advised 13 Postdoctoral researchers. Accord-
1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently he serves as a ing to Google Scholar as of September 2020, his H-index
Consulting Chair Professor with the Computer Science is 124 and the total number of citations to his papers is
Department at the University of Cyprus since January 119+K. His rank in terms of h-index in the world is 46
2017. and in the USA 32.
He is also the Megagrant Leader with the Institute
for Information Transmission Problems at the Russian

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