Education

2014 - PhD, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
Dissertation Title: Information dissemination and consumption in competitive networking urban environments
Advisor: Prof. Ioannis Stavrakakis

2010 - Master of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
Communication Systems and Networks
MSc Thesis Title: Approaches to the parking place search process
Supervisors: Prof. Ioannis Stavrakakis, Dr. Merkourios Karaliopoulos

2007 - Bachelor of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
Computer Science
BSc Thesis Title: Information retrieval processes in wireless sensor networks with mobile and static storage nodes
Supervisors: Prof. Ioannis Stavrakakis, Dr. Antonios Panagakis

Research Interests

Opportunistic Networking, Vehicular Networks, Intelligent Transportation Systems/Applications, Decision Theory, Game Theory

Research Experience

Nov. 2013 - present: (FP7 NoE EINS Open Call Action) FOCAL: Foundations for Collective Awareness Platforms

• Systematic exploration of market-, social- and cognitive psychological dimensions inherent in Collective Awareness Platforms and their implications for the design of platforms and user participation in them.

Nov. 2013 - present: (FP7 NoE EINS Open Call Action) COHESION: Cognitive Heuristics for Distributed Resource Allocation/Selection

• Development of efficient distributed resource allocation mechanisms by leveraging heuristic principles of human decision-making.

Dec. 2011 – present: (EU-FP7-ICT) EINS - Network of Excellence in InterNet Science

• Development of foundations for an integrated and interdisciplinary scientific understanding of Internet networks and their co-evolution with society.

Oct. 2010 – Oct. 2013: (EU-IST-FET) RECOGNITION: Relevance and cognition for self-awareness in a content-centric Internet

• Development of efficient content management techniques that exploit principles of Decision Theory, spanning the areas of Game Theory and Cognitive Psychology, in studying new approaches for service delivery and pervasive computing in urban environments.

Teaching Experience

Teaching assistant

• Spring semester 2013, 2014: Advanced Networking Technologies (PMS 623), course for the postgraduate program “Communication Systems and Networks”, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

• Spring semester 2012: Communication Networks I (K16), undergraduate course, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian, University of Athens.

Co-supervision of Master-level students

• Kyriakos Karpontinis, "Auction Mechanisms in Intelligent Transportation Systems (provisional)", Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

• Martha Liakopoulou, "Socio-psychological incentives for cooperation in virtual communities", Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, May 2014.

• G. Kollias, M. Papadaki, "Vehicular Networks: Vulnerability of parking search space applications to selfish/malicious behaviors", Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Dec. 2012.