Peter Stavroulakis

Professional Experience
Peter Stavroulakis received his BS and Ph.D. degrees from New York University in 1969 and 1973 respectively and his MS degree from California Institute of Technology in 1970. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1973 and worked until 1979 when he joined Oakland University in Rochester Michigan as an associate Professor of Engineering. He worked at Oakland University until 1981 when he joined ATT International and subsequently NYNEX International until 1990. In may 1990, he was elected at the Technical University of Crete (TUC) Greece as a full Professor of Electrical Engineering. His work at Bell Labs and Oakland University resulted in the publication of an IEEE reprint book on Interference Analysis of Communication Systems and the publication of a number papers in the general area of telecom systems. He is also the author of two other print books in Distributed Parameter Systems Theory, published by Hutchinson+Ross and a special issue of the Journal of Franklin Institute on Sensitivity Analysis. While at ATT and NYNEX he worked as a Technical Director whose responsibility was to lead a team dealing with techno-economic studies on various large National and International Telephone Systems and Data Networks. He spent a large part of his career working on all aspects of Satellite systems design and he is recognized as a leading authority in this field. When he joined TUC, he led the team for the development of the Technology Park of Chania and has had various administrative duties besides his teaching and research responsibilities. Prof. Stavroulakis is the founder of the Telecommunication Systems Institute of Crete, a research center for the training of Ph.D. students in Telecommunications, associated with and in close collaboration with various research centers and Universities in Europe and U.S.A. He now has a very large research team, the work of which is funded by various public and private sources including European Union. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Communications systems and the International Journal of Satellite Systems and has been a reviewer for many Technical International Journals. His current research interests are focused on the application of various heuristic methods on Telecommunications, including Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems and Genetic Algorithms and also in the development of new modulation techniques applicable to Mobile and Wireless Systems. His research work has resulted in more than 80 research papers published in International Technical Journals and in 12 Books. He has organized or co-organized 10 International conferences.

Olympic Games Experience
Professor Stavroulakis as a technical Director of NYNEX for Europe was responsible for the Design of the Telecom and information Network of the Winter Olympics in France in 1986. He is now co-organizing an International conference be held in CHINA in October 2005 sponsored by the Chinese Government which deals with the application of Wireless Systems in large Telecom applications and he will be totally responsible for the Workshop on the Olympics 2008.

He is also responsible for the techno-economic evaluation of the security network used for the Athens Olympics 2004 leading a team of professionals. He is also expected to play a major role in the future applications of security networks using TETRA on a European basis because of his recognized expertise in this area.