I joined the faculty of the department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Ioannina in the Fall of 2024. I previously held an associate professor position at the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics of the University of Thessaly.
I am also an affiliated researcher since 2025 at ‘Archimedes’ unit of ‘Athena’ research center.
Education
- B.Sc. (Physics), Physics Department, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece, 1993.
- Ph.D. (Computer Science), School of Electrical and Computer Enginnering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2003. Advisor: Prof. Stathis Zachos.
Fellowships
- 2025: Research grant for visiting (3 weeks) Paris-Saclay University, France.
- 2021 - 2022: I spent my sabbatical leave visiting the University of Ioannina in Greece, Aix-Marseille University in France (financially supported by Aix-Marseille University) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in Italy (financially supported by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).
- 2014: Grant (10,000 euros) from the Hellenic Academic Libraries Link for co-authoring (in greek) the book ‘Algorithmic Theory of Distributed Computing’, together with Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton Univ., Canada), Aris Pagourtzis (NTUA, Greece) and Danny Krizanc (Wesleyan Univ., USA).
- 2011: Maître de conferences invité at École Centrale de Marseille, Marseille, France.
- 2011: Research grant for visiting the Slovakian Academy of Sciences offered by the Ministries of Education of Greece and Slovakia (Bilateral Exchange Programme for Researchers).
- 2006 - 2007: Post-doctoral researcher at the McMaster School of Computational Engineering and Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Supervisor: Assist. Prof. George Karakostas (see my oldweb page).
- 2006: Post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), Bordeaux, France. Supervisors: Dr. Ralf Klasing, Prof. Andre Raspaud.
- 2004 – 2006: Post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Supervisor: Prof. Ioannis Emiris.
- 2003 – 2004: Post-doctoral researcher at the Research Chair in Distributed Computing, Département d'informatique et d'ingénierie, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Québec, Canada. Supervisors: Prof. Andrzej Pelc, Prof. Jurek Czyzowicz.
Teaching
- 2024 -: ‘Graph Theory’, ‘Discrete Mathematics I’, ‘Distributed Computing’, ‘Theory of Computation’ at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of the University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
- 2008 - 2024: ‘Data Structures’, ‘Algorithms and Complexity’, 'Theory of Computation’, ‘Graph Theory’, ‘Introduction to Programming’, ‘Programming Language Theory’, ‘Programming with C’, ‘Software Engineering’, ‘Algorithms and Complexity in Biology’ at the Department of Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics of the University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece.
- Autumn 2011: 'An Introduction to Distributed Computing: Algorithmic Theory Frameworks' at École Centrale de Marseille, Marseille, France (maître de conferences invité).
- 2007 - 2008: 'Introduction to Programming', ‘Data Structures’, 'Distributed Computing and Network Security' at the Computer Science Department of the University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece (visiting assist. professor).
- Spring 2005: ‘Data Structures with C’ at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece (visiting lecturer).
Students
PhD
- Nikos Giachoudis: PhD Thesis entitled 'Solving Fundamental Problems in Hostile Networks’, Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Thessaly, 2021.
Masters
- Agapi Christakaki: Master’s Thesis, Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Thessaly, 2018.
- Matoula Petrolia: Master's Thesis, (co-advised with Professor A. Pagourtzis), School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, 2013.
Bachelors - Diplomas
- Dimitrios Georgitsis: Diploma Thesis, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina, 2026.
- Maria Kokkou: Bachelor Thesis, Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Thessaly, 2019.
- Maria Papadopoulou: Bachelor Thesis, Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Thessaly, 2015.
- George Telonis: Bachelor Thesis, Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Thessaly, 2015.
- Dimitris Telonis: Bachelor Thesis, Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Thessaly, 2015.
- Froso Doutsi: Bachelor Thesis, Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Central Greece, 2012.
- Christos Papageorgakis: Bachelor Thesis, Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Central Greece, 2012.
- Moses Simeonidis: Bachelor Thesis, Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics Department, University of Central Greece, 2012.
- Vasiliki – Despoina Mitsou: Diploma Thesis, (co-advised with Prof. E. Zachos), School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences,National Technical University of Athens, 2006.
Short visits
- July 2025: Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.
- June - July 2025: Paris-Saclay University, France.
- June 2022: University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
- May 2022: Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.
- February - April 2022: University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
- November - December 2021: Laboratoire d’Informatique et de Systèmes Marseille, France.
- October - November 2021: University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
- September 2019: Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.
- December 2017: Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.
- June 2017: Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille, Marseille, France.
- October 2015: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
- October 2013: Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.
- March 2013: Project COATI, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
- November 2011: Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille, Marseille, France.
- October 2011: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- December 2010: Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete Island.
- November 2010: Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille, Marseille, France.
- August 2010: McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
- August 2010: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
- March 2010: McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
- February 2010: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
- February 2009: Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- February 2006: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
- April - May 2005: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. (talk abstract)
- November 2004: Project MASCOTTE, INRIA, Sophia – Antipolis, France.
Invited talks
- May 2023: `Basic Algorithms in Graphs: Properties and Applications’, IEEExtreme Algoday Webinar, NTUA, UPatras and Thessaly-Lamia Student Branch.
- December 2021: `Scheduling and Graph Exploration with Deadlines’, Laboratoire d'Informatique et de Systèmes (LIS), Marseille, France.
- November 2021: `Exploring Graphs with Time Constraints by Mobile Robots’, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
- April 2021: `An Introduction to Distributed Computing’, SFHMMY 12, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
- September 2019: 'Exploring Graphs with Time Constraints by Unreliable Collections of Mobile Robots’, Universita Ca 'Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.
- December 2017: 'Exclusive Graph Searching in Various Graph Classes’, Universita Ca 'Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.
- October 2015: 'Mobile Agents Rendezvous in Mesh-Networks, in spite of a Malicious Agent’, 7th Workshop on Graph Searching, Theory and Applications + 6th Workshop on Moving and Computing, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
- April 2014: ‘Exclusive Graph Searching in Various Graph Classes’, 6th Workshop on Graph Searching, Theory and Applications, Cargese, Corsica, France.
- October 2013: `Distributed Computing: An algorithmic theory framework for mobile agents and some interesting problems', Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, Italy.
- July 2013: `Exploration of Networks Containing Malicious Hosts', Moving and Computing: Research Meeting and School on Distributed Computing by Mobile Robots, Ischia, Italy.
- June 2013: `Exploration of Networks Containing Malicious Hosts', TRANSFORM Summer School on Research Directions in Distributed Computing, FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Greece.
- March 2013: `Online Graph Exploration by a Mobile Agent', COATI project, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
- August 2012: `Online Graph Exploration with Advice', 7th Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity, University of Athens.
- November 2011: `Gathering Asynchronous Oblivious Mobile Robots in a Ring', Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Marseille (LIF), Marseille, France.
- October 2011: `Black Hole Search with Finite Automata Scattered in Synchronous Rings and Tori', Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- August 2010: `Deterministic Algorithms for the Rendezvous problem in Networks', Moving and Computing: Research Meeting and School on Distributed Computing by Mobile Robots, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
- February 2009: `Connectivity in Ad-Hoc Networks with Selfish Nodes', Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
- August 2007: `Connectivity in Ad-Hoc Networks with Selfish Users', 2nd Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity, National Technical University of Athens.
- August 2006: `Mobile Agent Rendezvous in Graphs', 1st Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity, National Technical University of Athens.
- April 2005: `Searching for a black hole in (semi-) synchronous networks', Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
- November 2004: `Exploration of graphs under different scenarios', MASCOTTE project, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
PC Membership
- Program Committee member of the International Symposium on Algorithmics of Wireless Networks (ALGOWIN 2026), University of L’Aquila, Italy.
- Program Committee member of the 27th International Symposium on Stabilisation, Safety and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2025), Kathmandu, Nepal.
- General co-chair of the Organising Committee (together with professor Konstantinos Georgiou, TMU) of SIROCCO 2025, Delphi, Greece, June 2-4, 2025.
- Program Committee member of the International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2023), Tokyo, Japan, December 6-8, 2023.
- Program Committee member of the International Symposium on Algorithmics of Wireless Networks (ALGOWIN 2023), Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 7-8, 2023.
- Program Committee member of the 25th International Symposium on Stabilisation, Safety and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2023), Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, October 2-4, 2023.
- Program Committee member of the 47th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Foundations of Computer Science track, (SOFSEM 2021), Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, January 25-28, 2021.
- Program Committee member of the International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks (ALGOSENSORS 2020), Pisa, Italy, September 9-10, 2020.
- Program Committee member of the 21st International Symposium on Stabilisation, Safety and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2019), Pisa, Italy, October 22-25, 2019.
- Poster Evaluation Committee member of the 6th ACM-W Europe Celebration of Women in Computing (womENcourage 2019), Rome, Italy, September 16-18, 2019.
- Poster Evaluation Committee member of the 5th ACM-W Europe Celebration of Women in Computing (womENcourage 2018), Belgrade, Serbia, October 3-5, 2018.
- Program Committee member of the 25th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2018), Ma’ale HaHamisha, Israel, June 18-21, 2018.
- Program Committee member of the 24th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2017), Porquerolles, France, June 19-22, 2017.
- Program Committee member of the 14th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN 2017), Exeter, UK, June 21-23, 2017.
- Organizing Committee member of the 10th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2017), Athens, Greece, May 26-28, 2017.
- Program Committee member of the 20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016), Madrid, Spain, December 13-16, 2016.
- Poster Evaluation Committee member of the 3rd ACM-W Europe Celebration of Women in Computing (womENcourage 2016), Linz, Austria, September 12-13, 2016.
- Program Committee member of the 15th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc-NOW 2016), Lille, France, July 4-6, 2016.
- Co-Chair (together with Prof. Peter Widmayer, ETHZ) of the Program Committee of the Special Track on ‘Distributed Computing with Mobile Agents’ of the 14th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc-NOW 2015), Athens, Greece, June 29-July 2, 2015.
- Program Committee member of the 14th Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO' 2007), Castiglioncello LI, Italy, June 6-8, 2007.
- Program Committee member of the 6th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (AdHoc-NOW 2007), Morelia, Mexico, September 24-26, 2007.