Sotirios Goudos

Sotirios K. Goudos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1991 and the M.Sc. of Postgraduate Studies in Electronics in 1994 both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2001, he received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in 2005 the M.Sc. in Information Systems from the University of Macedonia, Greece. In 2011, he obtained a Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests include antenna and microwave structures design, evolutionary algorithms, wireless communications, machine learning, and semantic web technologies. He has participated as Guest Editor or Lead Guest editors in more than 20 special issues in international journals. He has co-organized 4 special sessions in international conferences. Prof. Goudos is the director of the ELEDIA@AUTH lab member of the ELEDIA Research Center Network and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Telecom open access journal (MDPI publishing). He is currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE ACCESS and IEEE open journal of the communication society. He is also member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation (IJAP), the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and the International Journal on Advances on Intelligent Systems. He is also member of the topic board of the Electronics open access journal. Prof. Goudos is currently serving as Chapter/AG coordinator for IEEE Greece Section. He was honoured as an IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor for 2019 and 2020. He has also served as a member of the Technical Program Committees in several IEEE and non-IEEE conferences. Prof. Goudos is a member of the IEEE (Senior member), the IEICE, the Greek Physics Society, the Technical Chamber of Greece, and the Greek Computer Society. He is the author of the book "Emerging Evolutionary Algorithms for Antennas and Wireless Communications", Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2021. Prof. Goudos has participated in more than 16 national and European funded projects and has been Principal Investigator at 2 national funded research projects.