His research interests are in the field of wireless networks with emphasis on access layer protocols, cooperative networks, directional antennas, quality of service provisioning and network management. He leads the Wireless Implementation Testbed Laboratory (Witest Lab) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon.

Dr. Korakis follows the standardization activities for 802.11 and 802.16 very closely. Since March 2007, he is a voting member of the IEEE 802.16 standardization group as well as a regular participant in the meetings held. He is the Finance Chair for ITW 2009. He served as a Publication Chair for WiOpt 2007 and as a member of the Technical Program Committee for ICC 2008, WCNC 2008 and SECON 2008. He was awarded the Ericsson Award of Excellence in Telecommunications for work related to his Ph.D. in 2006.