NC State ECE
  • About
    • Department
    • History
    • Facilities
    • Spotlight
    • Graduation
    • Employment
    • Faculty Awards
    • Staff Awards
  • News
    • News
    • Calendar
    • Social Media
  • People
    • Primary Faculty
    • Supporting Faculty
    • Staff
    • Postdocs
    • Visiting Scholars
  • Undergrad
    • Undergraduate
    • Computer Engineering
    • Electrical Engineering
      • REES Concentration
    • Undergraduate Research
    • Scholarships
    • Apply
  • Graduate
    • Graduate
    • Master’s
    • Doctoral
    • Graduate FAQ
    • Apply
  • Research
    • Research
      • Bioelectronics Engineering
      • Communications and Signal Processing
      • Computer Architecture and Systems
      • Control, Robotics, and Mechatronics
      • Electronic Circuits and Systems
      • Networking
      • Physical Electronics, Photonics & Magnetics
      • Power Electronics and Power Systems
    • Centers & Labs
    • Funded Research
    • Seminars
  • Engagement
    • Engagement
    • Advisory Board
    • Alumni
      • Alumni in Academia
      • ECE & Alumni Startups
      • Distinguished Alumni
    • Archived: Alumni Hall of Fame
    • Corporate
    • Student Organizations
  • Visit

Outstanding Early Career Award 2022

Ioannis Papapanagiotou

Ioannis Papapanagiotou is a Director of Engineering of the Blockchain Platform at Gemini. He received the MSc & Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering and Operations Research from NC State University. As a graduate student, Ioannis received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship and Academy of Athens Ph.D. Fellowship for his research, and best paper awards in the IEEE Globecom 2007 and the IEEE CAMAD 2010 conferences. He helped rebuild the ECE Graduate Student Association and assisted in establishing our online collaboration program with the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Ioannis has obtained a wide range of experiences in the software industry and academia. He has built organizations and systems at a large scale (10 Billions operations per day, Exabytes of data) serving hundreds of millions of users as a senior manager at Snowflake and at Netflix. He has served in the faculty ranks of Purdue University (tenure-track) and was an engineer at IBM Software Group and IBM TJ Watson Research Center. At Purdue University, he has been awarded the NetApp faculty fellowship and established an Nvidia CUDA Research Center. Ioannis has authored several patents and research publications. Ioannis loves to contribute back to the ECE department. As a proud NC State alumni, he established, along with his wife Sofia, the “Papapanagiotou Ph.D. fellowship”, he is teaching graduate courses and advises ECE students.

Visit

Apply

Values

Give

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

890 Oval Drive
3114 Engineering Building II
Raleigh, NC 27606

919.515.2336

  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
Map of Centennial Campus
© NC State University. All rights reserved.

Webmaster  |   Accessibilty   |   Privacy   |   myECE

  • Webmaster
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • myECE