Sklivanitis

Georgios Sklivanitis, Ph.D. Q&A

Research Assistant Professor

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Boca Raton Campus

Sensing and Smart Systems

George Sklivanitis received the Diploma degree in electronic and computer engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 2018. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor with I-SENSE and the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. His research interests span the areas of signal processing, software-defined wireless communications and networking, cognitive radio, and underwater acoustic communications.

In 2014, he was the first finalist and was a recipient of the 2014 Nutaq Software-Defined Radio Academic U.S. National Contest and in 2015 he received the Best Demo Award in the 10th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems. He was also a recipient of the 2015 SUNY Buffalo Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2016 SUNY Buffalo Student Entrepreneur Fellowship, and the 2017 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. Dr. Sklivanitis is a member of the IEEE Communications, IEEE Signal Processing, IEEE Oceanic Engineering Societies and serves as the co-organizer and TPC co-chair of the IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (WCNEE) since 2017.

Building an Underwater Connection

Currently a research assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Georgios Sklivanitis, Ph.D., has been inventing for as long as he can remember. His innovative accomplishments include winning the 2014 Nutaq Software-Defined Radio Academic U.S. National Contest and founding Extreme Comms Lab, a company working to leverage a novel method of underwater communication. Dr. Sklivanitis' research interests span the areas of signal processing, software-defined wireless communications and networking, cognitive radio, and underwater acoustic communications.

Here is more information about Dr. Sklivanitis, in his own words:

During my undergraduate studies in Greece I had the opportunity to work as part of a small group of students that designed and prototyped wireless sensor network nodes for IoT applications for precision agriculture.

The future! Modeling, optimization and experimental evaluation of wireless networks in challenging environments such as underwater, in the sky and in space that will enable a rich body of applications with unprecedented societal impact.

In 2017, my research team demonstrated for the first time for the U.S. Air Force, autonomously reconfigurable wireless mesh networks of software-defined radios that can efficiently (i) share the spectrum without interfering with co-existing links/networks and (ii) resist to jamming and cyberattacks.

Artificial intelligence is anticipated to enable autonomous spectrum sharing and efficient spectrum utilization to address congestion in the air waves. In parallel, non-terrestrial wireless communications will allow more humans and machines (that either fly in the sky or lurk underwater) to get online.

I had a great experience working with OTD on the filing of my first provisional patent application with FAU. OTD has helped my team expedite the filing of all the required documents prior to the public disclosure of our research invention in a conference.

I really enjoy good coffee (especially espresso).

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