Team – SCAN Lab

Faculty Members

Nancy Alonistioti

Associate Professor

Αs. Prof. Nancy Alonistioti (female) has a B.Sc. degree and a PhD degree in Informatics and Telecommunications (Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA). She has over 20 years of experience in numerous national and European projects, including project/technical management experience (MOBIVAS, ANWIRE, LIAISON, E2R I & II, E3, SelfNET, SACRA, CONSERN, UniverSelf, SmartAgriFood). She is currently leading the SCAN group activities in the Dept. Informatics in UoA. She has served as member of the Future Internet Assembly Steering Committee. She has also undertaken management activities as a PMT member and WP Leader of the FP6 IST- E2R and FP7 E3 projects and the PC of FP7 ICT Self-NET and FP7 ICT CONSERN projects. She is member of the ETSI Experts group and the Greek standardization group ELOT (5G, smart citiy autonomic communications). She has over 100 publications in the area of mobile networks, Future Internet/NGI, cognitive management, autonomic communications and reconfigurable mobile systems. She is coauthor of 4 WO Patents and has more than 2500 citation in her work.

George Alexandropoulos

Assistant Professor

Researchers

Sokratis Barmpounakis

Postdoctoral Researcher
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Dr. Sokratis Barmpounakis is a Postdoctoral Research Associate, serving as the Technical Manager of SCAN group, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications. He holds a Ph.D. in “Context-based Resource Management and Slicing for SDN-enabled 5G Smart, Connected Environments”, since May 2018. Dr. Barmpounakis obtained his Engineering Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2010. From 2010 until 2013, he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in several projects (Swiss and European), as a member of the QoL group. Since March 2013, he is a researcher in the SCAN group, actively involved in numerous European Projects and industrial contracts, having also undertaken managerial roles, coordinating the University of Athens team. Since 2018, he serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens. Dr. Barmpounakis has more than 250 citations, and he is a co-inventor of 2 patents, approved and filed in the World Intellectual Property Organisation. His main fields of interest are: 5G, AI-assisted Networking for intelligent resource management, Network Function Virtualization, and Software Defined Networking. Since 2010, he is also a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Panagiotis Kontopoulos

PhD candidate
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Mr. Panagiotis Kontopoulos obtained his four-year Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and two-year Master of Science (M.Sc.) from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications. Currently works as a Research Associate in the Software Centric & Autonomic Networking (SCAN) Lab of UoA in conjunction with his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Telecommunications and Networks. His main fields of interest are Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Software-Defined Wireless Local Area Networking (SDWLAN), distributed systems, mobile communication systems and services in future networks.

Nickolas Koursioumpas

PhD candidate
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Nikolaos Koursioumpas (male) is a PhD candidate and is working as Research Associate at the Informatics and Telecommunications department of National andKapodistrian University of Athens. He obtained his B.Sc from Department ofInformatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University ofAthens (NKUA) with a specialization in “Networking and Telecommunications”. He completed his Master’s Degree with a specialization in “Computer Networking”, at. the same Department. He is an active research member of the SCAN laboratory sinceJanuary 2016. He is distinguished for his strong background in the fields of analyzing and processing big data, software developing concerning Wireless Sensor Networks, and also designing and developing traffic algorithms for mobile networks. His main fields of interest are: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, 5G Networks,Network Slicing and Context-Aware Resource/Mobility Management.

Dimitris Kassos

Research Associate
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Dimitris Kassos obtained his four-year Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications. He is currently working as a system Administrator at the Software Centric and Autonomic Networking (SCAN) Lab of UoA. His main fields of interest are Unix Programming, Cluster Virtualization Technologies, Operating Systems, Cyber Security and Software Defined Networks.

Lina Magoula

PhD candidate
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Lina Magoula (female) is a PhD candidate and is working as Researcher at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She obtained her B.Sc from Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) with a specialization in “Networking and Telecommunications”. She completed her Master’s Degree with a specialization in “Computer Networking”, at the same Department. Since January 2016, she has been a researcher in the SCAN group actively involved in European Projects, focusing on applied artificial intelligence for next generation telecommunication networks. Her main fields of interest are: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, 5G and Beyond Networks and Network Function Virtualization.

Nikos Petropouleas

Research Associate
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Mr. Nick Petropouleas obtained his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) from Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, in the Department of “Computer Engineering”. He is currently working as a Research Associate in the Software Centric & Autonomic Networking (SCAN) Lab of University of Athens (UoA) in conjunction with his Master’s Degree with a specialization in “Information and Communication Technologies”, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). His main fields of interest are Machine Learning, Federated Learning for IoT, 5G Networks and Beyond 5G.

Theodora Panagea

Research Associate
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Theodora is currently pursuing her BSc at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her main topics of interest are Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Cognitive Science.

Gerasimos Papanikolaou

Research Associate
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Gerasimos is currently pursuing his BSc at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His main topics of interest are Cyber Security and Computer Networks.

Giorgos Halios

Research Associate
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Giorgos is currently an undergraduate student at the Department Of Informatics and Telecommunications working on his thesis. He works as a researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). His main fields of interest are signal processing, low level programming (Unix, IoT etc.), machine learning and wireless and mobile networks beyond 5G

Administrative Support

Stella Kazilieri

Ms Stella Kazilieri received the B.Sc. degree in 1999 from the Department of Business Administration, University of Piraeus. She has computer knowledge and especially as far as office and financial applications are concerned. She has a ten year previous job experience in private and public sector (Municipality of Heraklio, Attikis, Cultural Centre – Ministry of Culture, Directorate of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Antiquities, Clerical Officer – Ministry of Tourism, Executive Secretary Office).

Stamatios Kolovos

Mr. Stamatios Kolovos received his B.Sc degree from the Department of Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Chalkida in 2013, and his M.Sc in Management & Economics of Telecommunication Networks from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in 2016. He has been working as a research associate for the SCAN group since July 2013. His main research interests lie in Theoretical framework of Crowdsourcing on Business.