Distinctions
and awards
o Best
paper award: paper [C87] in ACM HotPost workshop
(In ACM Mobihoc) 2016.
o Research
Support Grant, Athens University of Economics and
Business, for the project “Optimization of computation and data collection in
mobile environments”, 2015-2017, €13K, PI.
o Best
paper award: paper [C59], in ACM WINTECH 2013
workshop (in conjunction with ACM Mobicom 2013).
o Single-investigator
European Research Council (ERC) competition runner-up award (co-funded
by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund) through the Operational
Program "Education and lifelong learning - NCRF 2007-2013), for the
project "RECITAL: Resource Management for Self-coordinated Autonomic
Wireless Networks", €690K, 2012-2015.
o Samsung
Global Research Outreach (GRO) Innovations program award
for the project "NETSTAT: Network inference and optimization with
statistical physics methods", 2012-2013, €200K, co-PI (with L. Tassiulas).
o Senior
Member of IEEE, 2012-present.
o Greek
Government Scholarship grant for
bi-lateral collaboration project with Deutsche Telekom Labs, Germany on Cloud
computing, €10K, 2012-2013.
o Marie
Curie International Re-Integration Grant (IRG) for
the project "SAINT-W: Secure Advanced Integrated Layer Design of Wireless
Networks", Funded by European Commission, , €80K, 9/2005-9/2007.
o Visiting
Scholarship, Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Collaboration with Prof. R. Poovendran,
7/2005-8/2005.
o Graduate
Research Assistantship (GRA), Institute for
Systems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, 8/1999 – 1/2003.
o Graduate
Fellowship, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 8/1997 – 6/1999.
o Fulbright
Fellowship, the Fulbright Foundation, 8/1997 –
12/2002, for Graduate Studies in USA.
o Distinguished
academic performance monetary award, Foundation
of Greek Government Scholarships (I.K.Y), 1996, 1997.
o NSF
Student travel awards/grants to
participate as author / presenter in INFOCOM 2001 and 2002.
o IEEE
Communications Society student travel grant, GLOBECOM
1999.
o Best
student presentation award, Fall 1999
ECE Department Graduate Seminar Series, University of Maryland, College
Park.
Professional
Experience
Academic and Research
o Associate
Professor: Department of Informatics, Athens
University of Economics and Business, 2016-.
o Assistant
Professor: Department of Informatics, Athens
University of Economics and Business, 2013-2016.
o Assistant
Professor: Department of Computer and
Telecommunications Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, 2010-2013.
o Affiliated
Researcher: Centre for Research and Technology
Hellas (CERTH), Informatics and Telematics Institute, 2005-2015.
o Lecturer:
Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of
Thessaly, Volos, Greece, 2005-2010.
o Adjunct
Lecturer: Computer and Telecommunications
Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, 2003-2005.
o Affiliated
Researcher: Centre for Research and Technology
Thessaly (CERETETH), 2009-2011.
o Affiliated
Researcher: Institute for Accelerating Systems and
Applications (IASA), 2009-2011.
o Visiting
Scholar: University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
6/2005-8/2005. Collaboration on intrusion detection and jamming attack modeling
for wireless networks; Partial supervision of graduate student M. Li.
Industry experience in Europe and USA
o Visiting Research scientist:
Yahoo! Research Labs, Barcelona, 9/2012-12/2012.
o Research
Intern: Aperto Networks Inc, Milpitas, CA,
5/2000-8/2000. Participation in design and analysis of cross-layer adaptation
algorithms (PHY modulation, FEC coding rate and power control and link layer
ARQ protocol, packet size) for the Aperto Fixed Broadband Wireless link. These
algorithms are part of the technology OptimaLink® that has been incorporated
into products PacketWave of Aperto (subscriber unit, Base Station unit) for
high performance fixed wireless broadband access. Performance evaluation of
algorithms with the OPNET simulation tool.
o Research
Intern: HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA, 5/1999-
8/1999: Research in internal HRL project “Small Unit Operation –
Deployable and Adaptive Ad-hoc Mobile Networks (SUO-DAMAN)” of DARPA.
Design of broadcast routing protocols for control information dissemination in
wireless ad-hoc networks. Performance evaluation in terms of bandwidth
consumption, delay and robustness to topology changes.
o Research
Intern: Hughes Network Systems (HNS),
Germantown, MD, 5/1998-8/1998: Research in project “Intermediate
Circular Orbit (ICO) Satellite System” of ICO Global Communications Ltd.
Design of handover algorithms for Mobile Satellite System ICO. Simulation in
C++ of dynamic operation of the ICO satellite system (satellites, terrestrial
and airborne user terminals, wireless link, handover, channel allocation, call
blocking). Design and simulation of channel allocation algorithms for improved
blocking ratio.
Professional
Affiliations and service
o TPC
Co-chair, International Workshop on Resource Allocation and Cooperation in
Wireless Networks (RAWNET), in WiOpt 2017
o TPC
co-chair: International Workshop on "Networking across disciplines:
Communication networks, complex systems and statistical physics (NETSTAT), in
conjunction with IEEE ICC 2013.
o TPC
co-chair: International Workshop on Resource Allocation and Cooperation in
Wireless Networks (RAWNET), in WiOpt 2012
Technical Program Committee Member
· IEEE INFOCOM
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
· ACM Int. Symp.
on Mobile Adhoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc), 2009, 2013, 2016, 2017,
2018, 2019.
· IEEE Int.
Conf. on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2012.
· IEEE
International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad-hoc and
Wireless networks (WiOpt) 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
2017, 2018, 2019.
· International
Workshop on Resource Allocation, Cooperation and Competition in Wireless
Networks (RAWNET), 2014.
· ACM Conf. on
Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS) 2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012.
· IEEE Wireless
On-demand network systems and services Conference (WONS), 2016.
· IEEE Int.
Conf. on Sensors and Ad-Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) 2008, 2012.
· Int. Workshop
on QoS (IWQoS) 2010, 2011, 2012.
· IEEE Int.
Symp. on Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2008, 2010, 2013,
2014, 2015, 2016.
· Conference on
Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) 2010, 2011.
· Int. Conf. on
Network Games, Control and Optimization (NetGCoop), 2012, 2014.
· Workshop on
Internet Trust, Reputation, Identity and Privacy, 2012.
· IEEE 1st Int.
Black Sea Conf. on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom),
2013.
· IEEE Workshop
on Novel Approaches to Energy Management and Evaluation in Wireless Networks,
in conjunction with IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC), 2012.
· IEEE Int.
Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC),
2012.
· Int. Conf. on
Test-beds and Research Infrastructures for the development of networks and
communities (TRIDENTCOM), 2011, 2012
· Int. Conf. on
Telecommunications (ICT), 2011
· Int. Conf. on
Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), 2012.
· Consumer
Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2008, 2009
· IEEE Int.
Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2008, 2009, 2010,
2011, 2012
· Int. Symp. on
a World on Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2010
· IEEE Veh.
Tech. Conf. (VTC), 2009, 2010
· Int. Conf. On
Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT), 2010
· Tyrrhenian
International Workshop on Digital Communications (TIWDC), 2009
· TPC Member,
1st International Workshop on Security for Mobile Wireless Communications
(SeMIC) 2008.
· Workshop on Secure
Network Protocols (NPSec), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
· Int. Symp. on
Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), 2005,
2006.