Paul is a Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago who studies the fundamental limits of realizable, multi-user communication networks, focusing on power efficiency.  After a long career in industry with companies ranging from large multinationals to startups with products including mobile devices and wearable electronics.  Paul returned to academia to research what he felt was an understudied communication paradigm: low power, long-range, and low data-rate communication. This paradigm is present in many new wearable medical devices. A Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface is a new technological breakthrough demonstrating great promise in achieving many improvements in wireless networking by reflecting incoming wireless signals in configurable ways. 

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where Paul will be studying, is home to a group at the forefront of this exciting new technology and Paul looks forward to a fruitful collaboration expanding the state of the art of their use in multiuser networks. In addition to his research, Paul looks forward to exploring Greece’s many historical natural landmarks, gaining a familiarity with the Greek language, and volunteering.