Dr. George Koutitas

Dr. George Koutitas is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas State University and the director of the newly established XReality research lab. Dr. Koutitas expertize spans the area of Internet of Things, Augmented Reality and Wireless Networks. He is also an entrepreneur and the founder of an Austin-based startup company called Gridmates Inc that is the world’s first implementation of peer-to-peer transactive energy. Dr. Koutitas is a member of IEEE and IET and has published 46 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is also the author of 2 books related to Smart Cities and Smart Grids. Finally, Dr. George Koutitas is the inventor of 2 patent pending technologies in the area of Augmented Reality and Pee- to-Peer Energy. His research is cited in more than 750 scientific publications (src. Google Scholar).
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. 

Dr. George Koutitas
Assist. Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Smart Grids | Wireless Networks | Augmented Reality | IoT
Cell: +1 (512) 632-4363
Ingram School of Engineering
Texas State University
USA