Theodoros Tsiftsis

Theodoros A. Tsiftsis (Senior Member, IEEE) received the BSc degree in physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1993, the MSc degree in digital systems engineering from the Heriot-Watt University, UK, in 1995, the MSc degree in decision sciences from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, in 2000, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2006. He is a Professor of Wireless Communications in the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications at the University of Thessaly, Greece, and an Honorary Professor at Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan City, China. His research interests fall into the broad areas of communication theory and wireless communications with an emphasis on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, rate-splitting multiple access, optical wireless communications, and physical layer security. Dr. Tsiftsis served on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE TCOM, IEEE TMC, IEEE TVT, and IEEE COMML. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE TWC. Prof. Tsiftsis was appointed as an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer for two terms (2018-2022), and he currently serves as a IEEE ComSoc for the class of 2024-2025.