AIT Community / Faculty / Resident / Antonis Kalis

CONTACT INFORMATION Antonis Kalis / Resident Professor Athens Information Technology PO Box 68, 19.5 km, Markopoulo Avenue Peania 19002, Athens, Greece Tel: (+) 30-210-668-2774 Fax: (+) 30-210-668-2703 Email: akal [at] ait.edu.gr

PERSONAL DATA Mailing Address: Areos 11, Marousi, 15122, Athens, Greece T: 0030 6972 200 921 Dr. Antonis Kalis Born 29 January 1974, Athens, Greece Nationality: Greek Memberships: a. Technical Chamber of Greece, Member. b. IEEE, Member. Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Athens Information Technology Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Summary
Dr. Antonis Kalis is an associate professor of Athens Information Technology (AIT) and an adjunct professor of Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Electrical Engineering Diploma degree in 1997 from the EE Department of the University of Patras, Greece, and joined the Lab of Electromagnetics at the University of Patras, participating in various R&D projects for the Greek Government and the European Union, as research staff. In 2000 he worked as a Research Engineer and an Assistant Research Unit Manager at the Computer Technology Institute. He received his PhD from the University of Patras, in June 2002. He joined AIT in January, 2003. During the summer semester of the same year he delivered the course “Network Design and Evaluation” in Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. In 2004 he supervised the work of Dee Leang in Pittsburgh, which received the Kennametal Fellowship Award. Since 2005, he is appointed as an adjunct professor in Carnegie Mellon University. In 2009, June to November, he spent a semester in the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) in Barcelona, Spain, as a visiting scientist. Since 2003, he has also worked as a consultant for a number of small enterprises in Cyprus and the United States.
Dr. Kalis research interests are in the areas of radio communications, antenna design and wireless networks. He has numerous journal and conference publications, a US patent, and the 2000 Chester Sall Memorial award of the Consumer Electronics Society in the above areas. His research output has drawn the interest of the scientific community, underlined by a significant number of invited talks (e.g. in Bell Labs, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Trento, University of Piraeus, etc.) and one IEEE tutorial in PIMRC 2007, entitled “Developments in ESPAR Antennas”. A recent paper co-authored with O. Alrabadi, C. B. Papadias and R. Prasad (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Oct. 2010) was nominated for the Marconi paper award. Other recognitions include numerous invitations to act as an organization chair, session chair, and member of the technical program committee in major IEEE conferences in the field of communications.
Dr. Antonis Kalis is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece since 1998, and a senior member of IEEE since June 2010.

EDUCATION
(1991 – 1997) Diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Patras.
(1998 – 2002) Ph.D. in Wireless Communications, University of Patras.


SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
Smart Antenna Systems. Wireless communications. Embedded Communication Systems

AWARDS
June 2010: Senior Member of the IEEE
June 2001:  IEEE Chester Sall Memorial Award for the best papers published in the 2000 Transactions on Consumer Electronics, second place, for the work “A Printed Circuit Switched Antenna Array for Indoor Communications”.
March 2004:  Supervision of student Dee Leang on the MSIN thesis “Design of a hardware platform for Sensor Networks using Smart Antennas”, that received the Kennametal Fellowship Award, 2004..

PATENTS
December 2004:  US006836254B2, filed August 10 2002.

OTHER RECOGNITIONS

• A recent paper co-authored with O. Alrabadi, C. B. Papadias and R. Prasad (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Oct. 2010) was nominated for the Marconi paper award.
• Tutorial in PIMRC 2007: “Developments in ESPAR Antennas”
• Member of the Editorial Board of the “International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation”, Inderscience
• Reviewer in a number of Journals and conferences
• Member of the organization committee and technical program committee in several international conferences

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Published 21 papers in International Journals. 19 of them are in IEEE Transactions and Letters.
• Published more than 30 papers in International Conference Proceedings.
• Dr. A. Kalis has more than 100 citations and an h-index of 7, according to Google Scholar.

THESIS SUPERVISION

• Supervised 15 Masters Theses.
• Co-supervised 2 PhD students, who received their PhDs in 2011.
• Currently supervising 1 PhD student.

List of most significant publications
Antennas and Signal Processing for Wireless Communications
1. O. N. Alrabadi, A. Kalis, C. B. Papadias, N. Marchetti and R. Prasad “Spatial Multiplexing with a Single Radio: Proof-of-Concept Experiments in an Indoor Environment with a 2.6 GHz Prototype”, IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 15, no. 2, February 2011, pp. 178-180.
2. A. Kalis, A. G. Kanatas, C. Papadias, “ A novel approach to MIMO transmission using a single RF front end”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) special issue on MIMO for Next-Generation Wireless Networks, vol. 26, no. 6, August 2008, pp. 972-980.
3. A. Kalis, A. G. Kanatas, M. Carras, A. G. Constantinides, “On the Performance of MIMO Systems in the Wavevector Domain”, 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, Mykonos, Greece, June 5-8, 2006.
4. A. Kalis, M. Carras, “Aerial Entropy and Capacity of an MEA EM Source”, 26th Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 19-20, Brussels, 2005.
5. Kalis, T. Antonakopoulos, V. Makios, “A printed circuit switched array antenna for indoor communications”, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 46 no. 3, August 2000, pp. 531-538. 

Wireless Sensor Networks
1. A. Kalis, A. Kanatas, G. Efthymoglou, “A co-operative beamforming solution for eliminating multi-hop communications in wireless sensor networks”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) , vol. 28, no. 7, September 2010, pp. 1055-1062.
2. Y. Davilis, A. Kalis, A. Ifantis, “On the Use of Ultrasonic Waves as a Communications Medium in Biosensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 14, no. 3, May 2010, pp. 650-656.
3. A. Kalis, A. Kanatas, “Cooperative Beam-forming in "Smart Dust": Getting rid of Multi-hop Communications”, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, vol. 9, no. 3, July-Sept. 2010, pp. 47-53.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
September 1998 – February 2001:
Teaching Assistant, Laboratory of Electromagnetics, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Patras
May 2003 – Now:
Courses
18-544 “Network Design and Evaluation”, CMU, SU03
AIT-14E, “Wireless Communications”,
AIT-28E, “Wireless Sensor Networks”,
AIT-40E, “Wireless & Optical Communications”,
AIT-33C, “Telecommunication Systems”,
AIT-50E, “Market Perspective of the ICT Industry”,
Seminars:
“Beamspace-MIMO: Extending the capacity limits of wireless communications using a single transceiver”
Bell-Labs, December 2007, Princeton University, December 2007, Carnegie Mellon University, December 2007
“Introduction to the Concept of Aerial Entropy and Modulation”
AIT, November 2004, University of Piraeus, February 2005
“Applying Smart Antennas in Sensor Networks”,
AIT, February 2004, University of Piraeus, March 2004,
University of Trento, July 2004
“Wireless Access”, Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, March 2004
“Wireless Access”, AIT, Summer School 2007
“Smart Antennas”, AIT, Summer School 2007
Professional Courses:
“Wireless Communications”,
“Antennas for Mobile Applications”

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• SmartEN:EU Marie-Currie FP7 project. AIT’s Principal Investigator, (Expected to begin in December 2009)
• WiseSpot: Cyprus Institute of Research. AIT’s Principal Investigator, (December 2008 – December 2010)
• “RESOLUTION (Reconfigurable Systems for Mobile Local Communication and Positioning)”, IST Project FP6, AIT’s Principal Investigator, (February 2006 - February 2009)
• “R-Fieldbus” IST Project No: IST-1999-11316. Researcher. (January 2000 – October 2000, March 2001 – June 2001).
• “Research program for PANAFON cellular communications”: PANAFON S.A, a VODAFONE subsidiary. Researcher. (July 2001 – August 2001).
• "ATM Networking System Development”: Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE). Researcher. (October 1998 – June 1999).
• "ESD Best Practice Low Power (SOFLOPO): Low Power Software Development for Embedded Applications.” : ESPRIT Project No: 25403. Researcher. (January 1998 - October 1999).
• “V-NET: Implementation of a 802.11 MAC Controller chip”: ATMEL HELLAS S.A. Researcher. (January 1998 - December 1998).
• "Cordless Business Communications-COBUCO": ACTS Project no:AC031. Researcher. (January 1998 - October 1998).
• "Digital Stereoscopic Imaging and Applications - DISTIMA": RACE Project No: R2045. Research Assistant (January 1998 - October 1998).

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