George Moustakides received the diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1979, the MSE in Systems Engineering from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1980, and the M.Sc and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, Princeton NJ, in 1983.
During 1983-1986 he held a Junior Researcher position with INRIA, France, then a Researcher position (1988-1991) with the Computer Technology Institute of Patras, Greece. In 1991 he joined the Computer Engineering and Informatics department, University of Patras, Greece as Associate Professor and became Full Professor in 1996. From 2001 to 2004 he was with INRIA, France as Senior Researcher (research group leader) and during 2001-2007 he was also a Professor with the University of Thessaly, Greece. In 2007 he joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece until 2017. Since Fall 2017 he is Professor of Practice with the Computer Science department, Rutgers University.
Prof. Moustakides also held numerous appointments, financed by the hosting institutes, as Visiting Scholar and/or Adjunct Professor with Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, University of Maryland, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Southern California, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Rutgers University (Business School, CS and ECE).
His interests include Sequential Decision Making, Statistical Signal Processing and, during the recent years, Machine & Reinforcement Learning.
From 2011 to 2014 he served as Associate Editor for Detection and Estimation and from 2016 to 2020 as inaugural Associate Editor for Sequential Methods for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.