Dr. Petros S. Bithas received the Diploma (5 years) in electrical and computer engineering and PhD degree, with specialization in “Wireless Communication Systems”, from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. During 2009-2018 he was affiliated with the Department of Electronics Engineering of the Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, Greece. Since 2010, he is collaborating with the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus (UNIPI), Greece, where he participates in a number of National and International R&D projects. He is currently an associate Professor at the Department of Digital Industry Technologies of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Dr Bithas serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communication Letters, International Journal of Electronics and Communications (ELSEVIER), Telecom, Drone (MDPI) and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Hindawi). He has been selected as an “Exemplary Reviewer” of IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS (2010), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS (2019-2022), IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS (2022), while he is also selected as “Exemplary Editor” of IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS (2024). Moreover, he is co-recipient of Best Paper Awards at the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2013. He has published more than 70 articles in International scientific journals and 40 articles in the proceedings of international conferences. His current research interests include modeling of wireless communication channels as well as design and performance analysis of wireless and free space optical communication systems.