Prof. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos received his M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. He is a Full
Professor of Computer Science with the Faculty of Science, Engineering and
Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia, and
the Inaugural Director of the IoT Lab in the university’s Digital Innovation
Capability Platform. He also leads the Industry 4.0 Program at Swinburne’s
Manufacturing Futures Research Institute. Before that, he served as a Research
Director from 2008 to 2014 at CSIRO’s ICT Centre, Canberra, ACT, Australia, and
as a Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, from 2014 to
2016. Prior to joining CSIRO, he held research and management positions in
several industrial laboratories in the USA, including Telcordia Technologies,
Red Bank, NJ, USA; Microelectronics and Computer Corporation, Austin, TX, USA;
GTE Laboratories, Boston, Boston, MA, USA; and Bell Communications Research
(Bellcore), Piscataway, NJ, USA.