George Oikonomou
Professor Of Electronic Engineering at University of Bristol
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGeorge Oikonomou is a Professor of Electronic Engineering at the University of Bristol with 15+ years of experience researching energy-efficient networking and security for the Internet of Things. He is a co-founder and long-time contributor to Contiki-NG, the open-source embedded OS widely used in low-power IoT research and deployments, and has deep hands-on expertise porting and extending Contiki for TI CC2530/CC2531/CC2538 platforms. His work spans academic leadership—from research associate to professor—alongside practical firmware and tooling contributions such as enhancements to a cross-platform CC13xx/CC26xx/CC2538 bootloader script. George combines systems-level research with hardware-aware engineering, regularly bridging protocol design, power-optimization and device driver development. Based in Bristol, he holds a PhD in Computer Networks and brings a rare mix of academic rigor and embedded-systems craftsmanship to IoT security and networking challenges.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Networks, PhD, Computer Networks at Athens University of Economics and BusinessBSc (hons), Statistics and Insurance, 7.61 / 10, BSc (hons), Statistics and Insurance, 7.61 / 10 at University of Piraeus
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Github contributions (5)
contiki-ng/contiki-ng
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Contiki-NG: The OS for Next Generation IoT Devices
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 87 reviews, 1144 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:George contributed to Contiki-NG, an OS for IoT devices. The commits focus on restructuring and adapting existing code for a specific board (OpenMote-B), and enabling the use of the new LED HAL and GPIO. The changes include modifications to driver code, Makefile definitions, and example configurations. They also updated various drivers to utilize the GPIO HAL.
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contiki-os/contiki
Jun 2015 - Oct 2017
The official git repository for Contiki, the open source OS for the Internet of Things
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:251 commits, 225 PRs, 130 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:George's contributions primarily involve modifying and adding support for hardware-specific components within the Contiki-OS, specifically the CC2530 and CC2538 platforms. Their work includes implementing new platform support, adding features for the CC2531 USB dongle, and enhancing drivers related to sensors, and bootloader. The user also made improvements to the documentation and code style, addressing issues related to power cycling and device drivers.
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