ABOUT
"Γ&Nu&Omega&Theta&Iota &Sigma&Alpha&Upsilon&Tau&Omicron&Nu (Know thyself)." -- Ancient Greek aphorism
George N. Rouskas is a Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, which he joined in 1994. Dr. Rouskas maintains an active and well-funded research program in the field of computer networking, he has created several Computer Science courses and taught thousands of students, and serves the University and research community in various roles.
Professor Rouskas received the Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in Computer Science from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 1994 and 1991, respectively, and his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in 1989. During the 2000-2001 academic year he spent a sabbatical term at Vitesse Semiconductor, Morrisville, NC, and in May 2000, December 2002, and July 2006 he was an Invited Professor at the Laboratoire de Méthodes Informatiques, University of Evry, France.
Dr. Rouskas received the 2004 ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award, and the 2003 NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award. He is a recipient of a 1997 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and of the 1994 Graduate Research Assistant Award from the College of Computing, Georgia Tech. He is a co-author of three papers that received Best Paper Awards at the 1998 SPIE conference on All-Optical Networking, at the 2006 CSNDSP conference, and at the 2007 IEEE/IFIP EVGM workshop. Dr. Rouskas is especially proud of his teaching awards, including his induction in the NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers in 2004, and the Outstanding New Teacher Award he received from the Department of Computer Science in 1995.
Dr. Rouskas founded and serves as co-editor-in-chief of Optical Switching and Networking (OSN), an Elsevier journal. He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Computer Networks, and Optical Networks, and he was a co-guest editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Protocols and Architectures for Next Generation Optical WDM Networks, published in October, 2000. He was technical program co-chair of the Networking 2004 conference, general co-chair of the IEEE LANMAN 2005 workshop, program chair of the IEEE LANMAN 2004 workshop, program co-chair of the Traffic Grooming workshop 2004, and general co-chair for IEEE BROADNETS 2007. He also served as the founding director of the Masters of Science in Computer Networking (MSCN) degree program at North Carolina State University.
He is a Senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.