Assist. Professor George Alexandropoulos received the IEEE Guglielmo Marconi Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications 2021 (https://www.comsoc.org/about/awards/paper-awards/ieee-marconi-prize-paper-award-wireless-communications) for his article:
C. Huang, A. Zappone, G. C. Alexandropoulos, M. Debbah, and C. Yuen, "Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for energy efficiency in wireless communication," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 4157-4170, August 2019 (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8741198)