X-TREND Poster [11-2026]
PhD Students (current and alumni)
PhD students
 | Name: Dimitra Manoura (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Multimodal fusion for Real-time Scene Understanding and 6D Object Detection in the Industry 5.0 Recruitment: March 2027 (Expected) My Role: Supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: GENOME DC3 (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Privacy-preserving deep reinforcement learning for AI resilience in the edge/cloud continuum Recruitment: January 2027 (Expected) My Role: Supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mrs. Cosmina Stalidi (Romania) PhD Thesis Title: Explainable and adversarially robust Small Language Models for autonomous IoT Cyber Defense in Federated Edge environments Recruitment: June 2026 My Role: Supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mr. Dimitris Papadimitriou (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Machine reasoning for reconfiguration tasks planning in the edge/cloud continuum Recruitment: May 2026 My Role: Supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mr. Manousos Manouras (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: O-RAN xApp for low latency reconfiguration tasks planning Recruitment: June 2026 My Role: Co-supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mrs. Daphne Panopoulou (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Big data analytics leveraging robust, trustworthy, and privacy by design enabled XAI models for Industry and Healthcare 4.0 applications Recruitment: May 2025 My Role: Supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mr. Ioannis Vittorakis (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Machine Learning Techniques for 3D positioning and 6D pose in estimation in Industry X.0 enviroments Recruitment: March 2024 My Role: Supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mrs. Melina Dolapsaki (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Machine Learning Techniques for 3D environment mapping and object detection with applications to Digital Twins Recruitment: December 2023 My Role: Supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mr. Panagiotis Theodoropoulos (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Anonymization Techniques for Wireless Access Systems employing Distributed Ledger Technologies Recruitment: June 2023 My Role: Supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mr. Klearchos Palias (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Resource orchestration for massive connectivity at the network edge Recruitment: November 2021 My Role: Supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mrs. Anastasia Tsiota (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Reliable data transfer to multi-tier wireless networks with security and energy efficiency constraints Recruitment: January 2016 My Role: Advisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mr. Ioannis Stamoulias (Greece) PhD Area: Embedded Systems for Computer Vision Systems Recruitment: August 2025 My Role: Research Collaborate |
Alumni
 | Name: Mr. Salvatore Costanzo (Italy) PhD Thesis: Software Defined Networks / Mobile Data Networks Period (approximation): 2012-2015 Project: CROSSFIRE (completed) My Role: Advisor/Co-supervisor at NKUA Current Position (2023): Research Engineer Orange Labs, Paris – France |
 | Name: Dr. Rudraksh Shrivastava (India/Germany) PhD Thesis: Software Defined Networks / Mobile Data Networks Period (approximation): 2014 Project: CROSSFIRE (completed) My Role: Advisor/Co-supervisor during his secondment at NKUA (from NEC) Current Position (2023): Principal Researcher 6G & 3GPP RAN Delegate at SHARP Labs of America (SLA) |
 | Name: Mrs. Vivian Papadopoulou (Greece) PhD Thesis: Distributed MIMO with analog-beamforming and self-contained transmissions Period: November 2020 – June 2021 Project: SEMANTIC My Role: Advisor/Co-supervisor at NKUA Current Position (2023): Doctoral Researcher Technical University of Munchen, Germany |
 | Name: Mrs. Diana Zhussip (Kazhakstan) PhD Thesis: Resource orchestration for massive connectivity at the network edge Period: January 2021 – September 2021 Project: SEMANTIC My Role: Supervisor at Fogus Innovations and Services P.C. Current Position (2023): Systems Specifications Engineer, Nokia – Finland |
 | Name: Mr. Yevhenii Osadchuk (Ukraine) PhD Thesis: Edge content placement and delivery in converged MEC/RAN Period: December 2020 – August 2021 Project: SEMANTIC My Role: Advisor/Co-supervisor at NKUA Current Position (2023): PhD Candidate at Technical University of Denmark |
 | Name: Mr. Ubaldo Bucci (Italy) PhD Thesis: Resource Management for Flexible 5G RAN architectures Period: December 2020 – August 2021 Project: OPTIMIST My Role: Supervisor at Fogus Innovations and Services P.C., Committee Member of his PhD committee at University of L’ Aquila Current Position (2023): NOKIA, Greece |
| NO PHOTO | Name: Mrs. Anna Zampati (Greece) PhD Thesis: AI/ML techniques for Data Networks Period: December 2019- August 2021 Project: RE-CENT My Role: Advisor/Co-Supervisor at NKUA Current Position (2023): N/A |
 | Name: Dr. Tadege Mighretu Ayenew (Ethiopia) PhD Thesis Title: Fountain Coding Techniques for improving QoE in multi-tier heterogeneous networks Recruitment: November 2017 Graduation: November 2023 (Cum Laude) Project: SPOTLIGHT My Role: Advisor/Co-supervisor at NKUA |
| NO PHOTO | Name: Mr. Ayham Alyosef (Syria) PhD Thesis Title: Distributed MIMO with analog-beamforming and self-contained transmissions Period: May 2022 -July 2024 My Role: Advisor/Co-supervisor at NKUA |
| NO PHOTO | Name: Mr. Vasileios Gretsistas (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Edge content placement and delivery in converged MEC/RAN Period: February 2022-July 2024 My Role: Advisor/Co-supervisor at NKUA |
 | Name: Mr. Konstantinos Filopoulos (Greece) PhD Thesis Title: Big data analytics leveraging credible and privacy-preserving XAI models towards Healthcare 4.0 / Industry 4.0 Recruitment: June 2024-March 2025 My Role: Supervisor at NKUA |
BSc/MSc students – Department of Digital Industry Technologies (2022-ongoing)
Starting due by my election as Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Industry Technologies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in April 2022, I have been actively engaged in guiding young students during their theses and internships. Some of current and alumni students include: Mr. Periklis Tsiantoulis & Mrs. Efi Tsasioti (BSc thesis on Engine Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance), Ms. Athanasia Lambrou & Mr. Andreas Parros (BSc thesis on Mobile Apps for Indoor Navigation), Ms. Ariadne Manifava (BSc thesis on Online Platforms for Industry-Academia Cooperation), Mr. Panagiotis Kourtis (BSc thesis on Deceptive Digital Twins), Mr. Enrik Paloka (BSc thesis on OpenStack/Kubernetes), Mr. Nikolaos Chougiouris (BSc thesis on Cybersecurity), Mr. Theofanis Kantzaris (BSc thesis on Cybersecurity), Mrs. Aikaterini Stamataki (BSc thesis on 3D pose estimation). During my carreer, I have also supervised 10+ internships of our NKUA Students to the Private Sector.
BSc/MSc students – Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of NKUA (2009-ongoing)
Since 2009 I have supervised more than 50 Bachelor and Master theses at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Some of the alumni students include: Mrs. Athanasia Aggeli, Mrs. Dimitra Charaklia, Mrs. Anastasia Tsiota, Mrs. Vasiliki Ntarzanou, Mrs. Katerina Karachaliou, Mr. Manolis Marinos, Mr. Panagiotis Alexios Giannopoulos, Mr. Vasilis Spyropoulos, Mr. Grigorios Kakkavas, Mr. Nikos Iliadis, Mrs. Dimitra Leroutsou, Mrs. Marievi Xezonaki, Mrs. Dionysia Kalogeropoulou, Mr. Ioanna Karametou, Mrs. Ioanna Manousaki, Mr. Panagiotis Tzagkarakis, Mr. Dimitrios Kyriakidis, Mrs. Aikaterini Kosti, Mrs. Konstantina Roussou, Mr. Nikos Episkopos, Mr. Charalambos Papadopoulos, Mrs. Efi Dodekatou, Mr. George Trachanas, Mr. Ioanna Vrettou, Mr. Konstantinos Mihelis, Mr. Christos Koulis, Mr. Michael Kopsiaftis, Mr. Elias Tziviskos, Mrs. Valia Georgara, Mr. Giorgos Kourouniotis, Mr. Ilias Orfanos, Mr. Ameen Alfiza, Mr. Ahmadjon Rajabov, Mr. Leonidas Nasiopoulos, Mrs. Ioanna Giannikou, Mr. Andreas Zarmpis, Mr. I. Christou, Mr. Ioannis Kandiros, Mrs. Danai Dimitrakopoulou, Mrs. Andromachi Veneri.
Other Staff
Following my involvement as Principal Investigator in ongoing EU- and Nationally-funded projects, my team includes different persons that are not actively enrolled in an MSc or PhD programme at NKUA, yet, they are active members of our research and software development team. Current core team members include: Mr. Aias Sotiropoulos (Game Developer) and Mrs. Ioanna Friki (Discource Analysis / Linguistics).