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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Greece
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
60
Citations
16441
World Ranking
1606
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Greece Leader Award

Overview

George C. Alexandropoulos is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Engineering, with a particular emphasis on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their work encompasses a range of advanced topics including:

  • Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Antenna Design and Analysis
  • Satellite Communication Systems
  • Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks

Among their recent research papers are:

  • Multi-hop RIS-Empowered Terahertz Communications: A DRL-based Hybrid Beamforming Design, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for wireless communications: Overview of hardware designs, channel models, and estimation techniques, 2022, Intelligent and Converged Networks
  • Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces for Efficient Holographic MIMO Communications in 6G, 2023, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces With Reflection Pattern Modulation: Beamforming Design and Performance Analysis, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Holographic MIMO Communications: Theoretical Foundations, Enabling Technologies, and Future Directions, 2023, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Chau Yuen
  • Mérouane Debbah
  • Chongwen Huang
  • Henk Wymeersch
  • Nir Shlezinger

George C. Alexandropoulos has published extensively in several notable venues, with a particularly strong presence in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Best Publications

  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Communication

    Chongwen Huang;Alessio Zappone;George C. Alexandropoulos;Merouane Debbah

  • Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable AI meta-surfaces: an idea whose time has come

    Marco Di Renzo;Merouane Debbah;Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy;Alessio Zappone

  • Holographic MIMO Surfaces for 6G Wireless Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and Trends

    Chongwen Huang;Sha Hu;George C. Alexandropoulos;Alessio Zappone

  • Channel Estimation for RIS-Empowered Multi-User MISO Wireless Communications

    Li Wei;Chongwen Huang;George C. Alexandropoulos;Chau Yuen

  • Multi-Hop RIS-Empowered Terahertz Communications: A DRL-Based Hybrid Beamforming Design

    Chongwen Huang;Zhaohui Yang;George C. Alexandropoulos;Kai Xiong

  • Energy Efficient Multi-User MISO Communication Using Low Resolution Large Intelligent Surfaces

    Chongwen Huang;George C. Alexandropoulos;Alessio Zappone;Merouane Debbah

  • Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for wireless communications: Overview of hardware designs, channel models, and estimation techniques

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  • Indoor Signal Focusing with Deep Learning Designed Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

    Chongwen Huang;George C. Alexandropoulos;Chau Yuen;Merouane Debbah

  • Holographic MIMO Communications: Theoretical Foundations, Enabling Technologies, and Future Directions

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  • Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces for Efficient Holographic MIMO Communications in 6G

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  • Dynamic Metasurface Antennas for 6G Extreme Massive MIMO Communications

    Nir Shlezinger;George C. Alexandropoulos;Mohammadreza F. Imani;Yonina C. Eldar

  • Reconfigurable, Intelligent, and Sustainable Wireless Environments for 6G Smart Connectivity

    Emilio Calvanese Strinati;George C. Alexandropoulos;Henk Wymeersch;Benoit Denis

  • A Hardware Architecture For Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces with Minimal Active Elements for Explicit Channel Estimation

    George C. Alexandropoulos;Evangelos Vlachos

  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces With Reflection Pattern Modulation: Beamforming Design and Performance Analysis

    Shaoe Lin;Beixiong Zheng;George C. Alexandropoulos;Miaowen Wen

  • Multi-User Holographic MIMO Surfaces: Channel Modeling and Spectral Efficiency Analysis

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  • Cognitive Amplify-and-Forward Relaying with Best Relay Selection in Non-Identical Rayleigh Fading

    Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao;T. Q. Duong;Daniel Benevides da Costa;G. C. Alexandropoulos

  • Adaptive Transmission for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted OFDM Wireless Communications

    Shaoe Lin;Beixiong Zheng;George C. Alexandropoulos;Miaowen Wen

  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Rich Scattering Wireless Communications: Recent Experiments, Challenges, and Opportunities

    George C. Alexandropoulos;Nir Shlezinger;Philipp del Hougne

  • Integrated Sensing and Communications With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: From signal modeling to processing

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  • Pervasive Machine Learning for Smart Radio Environments Enabled by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

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  • Full-Duplex Wireless for 6G: Progress Brings New Opportunities and Challenges

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  • Joint Channel Estimation and Signal Recovery for RIS-Empowered Multiuser Communications

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  • Reconfiguring wireless environments via intelligent surfaces for 6G: reflection, modulation, and security

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  • Wireless Environment as a Service Enabled by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: The RISE-6G Perspective

    Emilio Calvanese Strinati;George C. Alexandropoulos;Vincenzo Sciancalepore;Marco Di Renzo

  • A reconfigurable intelligent surface with integrated sensing capability.

    Idban Alamzadeh;George C. Alexandropoulos;Nir Shlezinger;Mohammadreza F. Imani

  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Metamaterials: The Potential of Wave Propagation Control for 6G Wireless Communications

    George C. Alexandropoulos;Geoffroy Lerosey;Merouane Debbah;Mathias Fink

  • Near-field Localization with a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Acting as Lens

    Zohair Abu-Shaban;Kamran Keykhosravi;Musa Furkan Keskin;George C. Alexandropoulos

  • Parallel Factor Decomposition Channel Estimation in RIS-Assisted Multi-User MISO Communication

    Li Wei;Chongwen Huang;George C. Alexandropoulos;Chau Yuen

  • Smart Radio Environments Empowered by AI Reconfigurable Meta-Surfaces: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

    Marco Di Renzo;Merouane Debbah;Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy;Alessio Zappone

  • Channel Estimation for RIS-Empowered Multi-User MISO Wireless Communications

    Li Wei;Chongwen Huang;George C. Alexandropoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Merouane Debbah
Merouane Debbah Khalifa University
Chau Yuen
Chau Yuen Nanyang Technological University
Constantinos B. Papadias
Constantinos B. Papadias American College of Greece
Marco Di Renzo
Marco Di Renzo CentraleSupélec
Alessio Zappone
Alessio Zappone University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Theodoros A. Tsiftsis
Theodoros A. Tsiftsis University Of Thessaly
Miaowen Wen
Miaowen Wen South China University of Technology
Michail Matthaiou
Michail Matthaiou Queen's University Belfast
Zhaoyang Zhang
Zhaoyang Zhang Zhejiang University
Vincenzo Sciancalepore
Vincenzo Sciancalepore NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

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