Anthony Ephremides received his B.S. degree from the National Technical University of Athens (1967), and M.S. (1969) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees from Princeton University, all in Electrical Engineering. He has been at the University of Maryland since 1971 and currently holds a joint appoint-ment as Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department and the Institute of Systems Research. He is co-founder and co-director of the NASA Center for Commercial Development of Space on Hybrid and Satellite Communications Networks established in 1991 at Maryland as an off-shoot of the ISR.
He was a Visiting Professor in 1978 at the National Technical University in Athens, Greece, and in 1979 at the EECS Department of the University of California, Berkeley. During 1985-86 he was on leave at MIT and ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the President of the Board of Governors of the Information Theory Group of the IEEE. He has been an Associate Editor on Estimation of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and is now the Associate Editor for Queueing Networks. Dr. Ephremides is also the President of Pontos, Inc., a private consulting firm, and a Member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the University of Crete. He was the organizer of the 1983 IEEE Workshop on Multi-User Information Theory and Systems and has taught several short courses on the subject under continuing engineering programs in the United States and abroad. He was the General Chairman of the 1986 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Athens, Greece. He has also been the Director of the Fairchild Scholars and Doctoral Fellows Program, an academic and research partnership program in Satellite Communications between Fairchild Industries and the University of Maryland. He won the IEEE Donald E. Fink Prize Paper Award (1992). He has been the President of the Information Theory of the IEEE (1987), and served on the Board of the IEEE (1989 and 1990).
PUBLICATIONS MOST RELEVANT TO PROPOSED RESEARCH
1. A. Ephremides and E. Modiano, "Communication Complexity of Secure Distributed Computation in the Presence of Noise," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 38, July 1992, pp. 1193-1203.
2. A. Ephremides and L. Tassiulas, "Stability Properties of Constrained Queueing Systems and Scheduling Policies for Maximum Throughput in Multihop Radio Networks," IEEE Trans. on Tutomatic Control, 37, December 1992, pp. 1936-1949.
3. A. Ephremides and L. Tassiulas, "Dynamic Scheduling for Minimum Delay in Tandem and Parallel Constrained Queueing Models," Anuals of Operations Research, accepted.
4. A. Ephremides, J. Wieselthier, and C. Barnhart, "A Neural Network Approach to Routing without Interference in Multihop Radio Networks," IEEE Trans. on Communications, accepted.
5. A. Ephremides and L. Tassiulas, "Dynamic Server Allocation to Parallel Queues with Randomly Varying Connectivity," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, accepted.
OTHER SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH
1. A. Ephremides and E. Modiano, "Efficient Algorithms for Performing Packet Broadcasts in a Mesh Network," IEEE/ACM Trans on Networking, submitted.
2. A. Ephremides and L. Tassiulas, "Throughput Properties of a Queueing Network with Distributed Dynamic Routing and Flow Control," Applied Probability, submitted.
3. A. Ephremides and S. Corson, "A Distributed Routing Algorithm for Mobile Radio Networks," IEEE/ACM Trans on Netorking, submitted.
4. A. Ephremides and J. Wieselthier, "Fixed-and Movable-Boundary Channel-Access Schemes for Integrated Voice/Data Wireless Networks," IEEE Trans. on Communications, submitted.
5. A. Ephremides, C. Barnhart, and J. Wieselthier, "A Neural Network Approach to Solving the Link Actuation Problem in Mutihop Radio Networks," IEEE Trans. on Communications, submitted.