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I am Professor at Computer Science and Informatics Division, London South Bank University, carrying out research and teaching activities in the field of Cloud Computing and Future Internet Technologies. I am the Head for Cognitive Systems Research centre carrying out research in the areas of robotics, autonomous systems and smart Internet technologies for smart cities, smart health and smart manufacturing verticals.
I obtained my PhD in Electronics Systems Engineering from the University of Essex and my MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras-Greece.
My research focuses on the areas of 5G networking technologies (O-RAN, IAB, UAV-Swarm, Edge/Fog Computing), Network Automation Technologies (NFV orchestration, error-resilient control plane, programmable data-planes with P4), and QoE for immersive media applications (e.g. 360 video, AR/VR, volumetric video, point-cloud). My research has been supported by Innovate-UK, Horizon 2020 and Marrie Currie, securing more than £10m funding. Through these projects, I have collaborated with peer academic and research institutions at national and international level (Loughborough University, University of Essex, University of Sussex, University of Aveiro, University of Cagliari, National Technical University of Athens, University of Aegean, Open University of Cyprus, Institute of Telecommunications, Austrian Institute of Technology, Technical University of Vienna). I have collaborated with multi-national companies such as Thales, EXFO, Telefonica, Nokia as well as with SMEs at both National (Future Intelligence, AdvTec, Motion-Robotics) and European (Synelixis, SigInt, GS-LDA, PenteNetworks, IS-Wireless) level.
My research work has been published in leading IEEE Journals and published in prestigious conferences such IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM and ICME. I have served as a Chair for IEEE MMTC 3DIG WG and Vice-Chair for IEEE MMTC QoE WG and Key Member for IEEE MMTC MSIG and 3DRPC WGs. I have served as Associate Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine and served as Guest Editor in many scientific journals. I am currently serving on the Editorial Board for EURASIP on Image and Video processing, ELSEVIER Signal Processing: Image Communications and MDPI Energies.

Research Head Centre

Future Internet Technologies; Mobile Computing; Principles of Data Networks