Yannis Viniotis


Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina


Contact Information

email: candice@ncsu.edu
office: EB II, Room 3062
office phone: (919) 515-7357
fax: (919) 513-3326
home phone: (919) 467-5420

Short Biography

Electrical Engineering diploma, University of Patras, Greece, 1981;
M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, 1985;
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, 1988.
Assistant Professor, NCSU, 1988-1994.
Associate Professor, NCSU, 1994-2005
Professor, NCSU, 2005-present
Cofounder, Orologic Inc., 1997
Director of Systems Architecture, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation, 2000-2002.

Teaching Interests


Research Interests

Dr. Viniotis' current research interests are in the areas of analysis and design of communication networks, with special emphasis on quality of service issues in high-speed networks.

Technology transfer

In October 1997, Dr. Raif Onvural (an NCSU alumnus) and Dr. Viniotis cofounded Orologic Inc. (Orologic was acquired by Vitesse Semiconductors Corporation in March 2000.) While at Orologic, Dr. Viniotis was one of the two principal system designers of Pacemaker, the industry's first 2.4 Gbps traffic management ASIC, and Monitor, the industry's first 2.4 Gbps ASIC implementation of the I.610 and I.630 ITU protocols.