Georgios Ellinas holds a B.S., M.S., M.Phil, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University. Dr. Ellinas is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus. Prior to joining the University of Cyprus Dr. Ellinas was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at City College of the City University of New York. Before joining the academia, Dr. Ellinas was a Senior Network Architect at Tellium Inc. In this role, he worked on lightpath provisioning and fault restoration algorithms in optical mesh networks, and the architecture design of the MEMS-based all-optical switch. Dr. Ellinas also served as a Senior Research Scientist in Telcordia Technologies' (formerly Bellcore) Optical Networking Research Group, where he performed research for the DARPA-funded Optical Networks Technology Consortium (ONTC), Multiwavelength Optical Networking (MONET) and Next Generation Internet (NGI) projects from 1993 to 2000. Dr. Ellinas also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, teaching courses on multiwavelength optical networking in 1999 and 2000, respectively. He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship, from 1987 to 1991, for undergraduate studies at Columbia University, where he received the Armstrong Memorial and the William L. Everitt award at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. Dr. Ellinas also received the Eliahu I. Jury award for the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation in the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Jacob Millman graduate teaching assistant award and a fellowship from Bell Communications Research. He has co-authored two books on optical networks (J. Wiley 2007, Cambridge University Press 2008), he is the co-editor of another book on optical networks (Springer 2011), he has authored and co-authored 9 book chapters and more than 125 journal and conference papers, and he is the holder of 30 U.S. and international patents on optical networking. He was also awarded the most outstanding project/paper award in the 1996 OPNET competition for a project using OPNET as the simulator platform. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of OSA, ACM, and the Marie Curie Fellows Association.

Optical architectures, routing and wavelength assignment algorithms (physical-logical layer integration, point-to-point, multicast, and groupcast), fault protection/restoration techniques in arbitrary mesh optical networks, security in optical networks, traffic grooming, complex networks, optical access networks (EPONs, WDM-PONs, and converged optical-wireless), critical infrastructure systems.

T.E. Stern, G. Ellinas, and K. Bala, Multiwavelength Optical Networks: Architectures, Design, and Control, Cambridge University Press, Dec. 2008.

E. Bouillet, G. Ellinas, J.-F. Labourdette, and R. Ramamurthy, Path Routing in Mesh Optical Networks, J. Wiley & Sons, Oct. 2007.

G. Ellinas, T. Stern, and A. Hailemariam, “Protection Cycles in WDM Mesh Networks”, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on WDM Optical Networks, 18(10):1924-1937, October 2000.

G. Ellinas, et al., “Routing and Restoration Architectures in Mesh Optical Networks”, SPIE Optical Networks Magazine, 4(1):91-106, January/February 2003.

G. Ellinas, et al., “Multicast Routing Algorithms Based on Q-Factor Physical-Layer Constraints in Metro Networks”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 21(6):365 – 367, March 2009.

G. Ellinas and A. Hailemariam, “Planar-Subgraph and Eulerian-Based Techniques for Ring-Covers in Mesh Optical Networks”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 9(1):1-17, May 2009.

T. Rahman, G. Ellinas, and M. Ali, “Lightpath and Light-Tree Based Groupcast in Mesh Optical Networks”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Optical Networks for the Future Internet, 1(2):A44–A55, July 2009.

G. Ellinas, et al., “Network Control and Management Challenges in Networks Utilizing Transparent Optical Switches”, IEEE Communications Magazine, 42(2):S16-S24, February 2004.

B. Meagher, G.-K Chang, G. Ellinas et al., “Design and Implementation of Ultra-Low Latency Optical Label Switching for Packet-Switched WDM Networks”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Special Issue on Optical Networks, 18(12):1978-1987, December 2000.

G.-K. Chang, G. Ellinas, J. Gamelin, and M. Z. Iqbal, “Multiwavelength Reconfigurable WDM/SONET/ATM Network Testbed”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology/IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Combined Special Issue on Multiwavelength Networks, 14(6):1320-1340, June 1996.

G. Ellinas, K. Bala, and C. Yu “Towards Hitless Reconfiguration in Data-centric Networks”, chapter in the book titled “Optical WDM Networks: Principles and Practice”, L. Ruan and D-Z. Du (Editors), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

G. Ellinas and K. Bala “Wavelength Assignment Algorithms for WDM Ring Architectures”, chapter in the book titled “Advances in Optical Networks”, K. Sivalingam and S. Subramaniam (Editors), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

Personal Website: http://www.eng.ucy.ac.cy/gellinas/