Dr. George Sklivanitis is the Schmidt Research Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University, a faculty founding member of the FAU Center for Connected Autonomy and AI and a faculty fellow with the FAU Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering. His research focuses on modeling, optimization and experimental evaluation of advanced wireless communication systems and autonomy in challenging, congested (and sometimes contested) communication environments. He has made leading contributions in the design and implementation of software-defined radio testbeds for cognitive wireless communications and adaptive high-speed underwater acoustic networks. In October 2018, he co-founded ExtremeComms Lab Inc. --a Venture Class 6 startup at FAU Tech Runway-- that focuses on the development of "self-driving" underwater wireless communication platforms that will support a new class of autonomous networked robots that can self-position and self-network underwater. George received his Diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the Technical University of Crete, Greece, in 2010, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA, in 2018.