Profile

I am a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Communications and a senior member of Bowland College. I received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece in 1997, the MSc degree in Satellite Communications Engineering from the University of Surrey in 2000 and the PhD degree from the University of Cambridge in 2007. From 2000 to 2002, I held positions in Marconi Communications and Inmarsat Ltd. I joined Autonomy Corporation for a short period of time in 2006 but I returned to Cambridge University in 2007 as a Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory, where I remained until December 2009. Before joining Lancaster University as a Lecturer in October 2010, I was a Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

Research Overview

My research interests lie in the general area of communication theory and include the modelling, analysis, performance evaluation and design of communication systems. My focus has been on coding schemes for multiple-antenna systems and cooperative networks. I am particularly intested in random linear network coding over finite fields and noise decoding, e.g., guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND), from a throughput but also from a security perspective.

Career Details

Academic Qualifications:

• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Lancaster University, UK, 2011)
• PhD (University of Cambridge, UK, 2007)
• MSc in Satellite Communication Engineering with distinction (University of Surrey, UK, 2000)
• Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, 1997)

Employment:

• Senior Lecturer (Aug. 2018 - present), Lecturer (Oct. 2010 - July 2018), School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University
• ERCIM Research Fellow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Jan. 2010 - Sep. 2010
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2009
• Resource Planning Engineer, Satellite and Network Operations, Inmarsat, London, Mar. 2001 - Mar. 2002
• Graduate Hardware Engineer, Optical Networks, Marconi Communications, Beeston, Nottingham, Oct. 2000 - Mar. 2001

Professional Role

• Member of the International Exchanges Panel of the Royal Society from Jan. 2025 to Dec. 2027
• External Examiner for the MSc programme in Signal Processing and Communications at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh from Aug. 2024 to Nov. 2028.
• Full member of the EPSRC Peer Review College since Feb. 2018. Associate member from Oct. 2016 to Jan. 2018.
• IEEE Senior Member since 2015. Member since 2005.
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2012.
• Guest editor of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Network Coding, 2016
• Member of the COST Actions CA22168 "Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems" (2023-27) and IC1104 "Random Network Coding and Designs over GF(q)" (2011-16).
• TPC member of CSNDSP (2010), IEEE WCNC (2013), ICT (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019), European Wireless 2015, ISWCS (2018, 2019) and IEEE VTC (Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019).
• External PhD examiner for Newcaste University (2016, 2018), NTNU - Norway (2017), Universita Politecnica delle Marche - Italy (2016), University of Bristol (2016), COMSATS (2015), University of York (2013), Aston University (2011).

PhD Supervision Interests

Research topics that mainly focus on network coding, especially sparse implementations and integration with physical-layer techniques and compressed sensing for repairing damaged data packets.