Dr. George Koutitas is an academic and entrepreneur in electrical and computer engineering. He has more than 10 years of academic and business experience in Smart Grids, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality and Wireless Networks.
Dr. George Koutitas is an Assist. Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the XReality Research Lab at Texas State University and also the CEO & CoFounder of an Austin based startup company called Gridmates.
Dr. George Koutitas holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, an M.Sc. degree (with Distinction and prizes from 'Nokia') in Mobile and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey, UK and a PhD in Electrical Engineering under EPSRC scholarship from the Centre for Communications Systems Research, UK. His post-doctoral studies were funded from the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly and the European Union. George is a member of IEEE and IET and has published more than 40 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences and is also the author of 2 books. His research is cited in more than 740 scientific publications (src. Google Scholar).