Director & Principal Consultant

Dr. Michael Hadjitheodosiou (Full CV here) was born and grew up in Nicosia, Cyprus. He graduated from Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, U.K., with an M.A. in Electrical & Information Sciences. He has an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine and the Ph.D. in Engineering (specializing in satellite communications) from the Centre for Satellite Engineering Research (CSER) at the University of Surrey, U.K. He has worked as a Research Fellow in the Communication Systems group(CSSR) at Surrey and has spent a year as a visiting fellow at the Canadian Government Communications Research Center (CRC). Since then he has been a member of the faculty of the Center for Satellite & Hybrid Communication Networks (CSHCN) at the Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park. Among his awards are: a full scholarship for studies at the University of Cambridge from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust , a Fulbright Scholarship for post-graduate work in the United States (CASP Program), a Research Fellowship from the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(EPSRC) and the Canadian National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) post-doctoral fellowship award. Dr. Hadjitheodosiou is an expert on space communications, satellite networks and multi-satellite constellations. He has worked for several years in networking issues for VSAT networks, developed performance evaluation methods for satellite constellations, multiple access schemes for satellite networks and designs for satellite gateways. He is currently working on modeling and design of new satellite systems, utilization of commercial satellite constellations for space mission support, and extending Internet services to NASA missions. His research interests include multimedia traffic modeling, service integration for wireless and hybrid networks, end-to-end performance optimization of satellite and mobile networks, protocol support over satellite channels, and design optimization of next generation broadband satellite systems. He has published on these topics in a variety of books, journals and conference proceedings [List of Publications]. He is a member of the IEEE and of AIAA and the secretary of the IEEE Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee. He is listed in International Who’s Who of Information Technology, Who’s Who in Electrical Engineering and Who’s Who in the World.