Georgios Giannakis is a Computer Scientist, engineer and inventor. He has been an Endowed Chair Professor of Wireless Telecommunications, he was Director of the Digital Technology Center, and at present he is a McKnight Presidential Chair with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. In 2023, Giannakis became an International Fellow of UK's Royal Academy of Engineering.In 2022, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Signal and Image Processing Institute at the University of Southern California; and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Advising at the University of Minnesota.In 2021, Giannakis became a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, Greece. In 2020, he was inducted as International Member of Academia Europaea. In the same year, he won the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) "Athanasios Papoulis," Society Award, and was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.In 2019, he was the winner of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing "Norbert Wiener" Society Award; he was also named Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI); and won the IEEE Communications Society Education Award. In 2018, he received honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Patras, and the University of Peloponnese, Greece. In 2016, Giannakis was appointed to the prestigious McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Minnesota.; and from 2001 to 2008 he held the Endowed Chair in Wireless Telecommunications at the U. of Minnesota. In 2015, Giannakis became the inaugural recipient of the IEEE Technical Field Fourier Award for Signal Processing. From 2012 to 2017, he served as member of the Board of Regents, University of Patras, Greece. In 2008, Giannakis became Fellow of EURASIP, and in 2005 he received EURASIP's Technical Achievement Award. Earlier in 1997, he became Fellow of the IEEE, and in 2000 he received the Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Giannakis is listed in the top 20 of ISI’s Highly Cited Researchers in ECE and Computer Science. His publications have received more than 90,000 citations with h-index=160. In Thomson Reuters "World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds" he ranks at the top 300 from all fields of Engineering, Informatics, and Computer Science. Giannakis is also a co-author of ten best journal paper awards including the IEEE Communications Society's Gugliermo Marconi Prize Paper Award for work on linear precoding, the 2003 IEEE Signal Processing Society's SP Magazine Best Paper Award for a paper on wireless multicarrier communication, an IEEE Signal Processing Society's Best Paper Award in 2001 for work on parallel factor analysis in sensor array processing, an IEEE Signal Processing Society's Best Paper Award, 2000 for work on designing filterbank precoders and equalizers.