Angelos
Antonopoulos (Thessaloniki, 1983) is currently a
Senior Researcher at
Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia (CTTC). He received the
Ph.D. degree (
Cum Laude) from the Signal Theory and Communications (TSC) Department of the Technical University
of Catalonia (UPC) in December 2012, while he holds an
M.Eng. degree
from the Information and Communication Systems Engineering Department
(ICSDE) of the University of the Aegean (2007). His PhD dissertation "Network Coding-aided MAC Protocols for Cooperative Networks" was awarded as the
Best UPC Thesis in ICT.
His main
research interests lie on the area of
5G (and beyond) wireless networking and include network architectures, network planning, vertical and over-the-top (OTT) services, radio resource management, content caching and dissemination, device-to device (D2D) communications, energy efficiency aspects and cooperative communications. He is the
Project Manager of the EU-funded ICT-20 project
MonB5G, while he has
participated in
several European and Spanish national projects (e.g., 5G-SOLUTIONS, SEMIoTICS, GREENET, Green-T, CO2Green, etc.). He has also served as an
expert evaluator
of research project proposals funded by the
Central Finance and Contracting Agency (Latvia), the National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation (Kazakhstan) and the
National Council for Scientific Research (Romania).
He currently serves as an Associate Editor in
IEEE Networking Letters, IEEE Access, Computer Networks (Elsevier) and
Inventions (MDPI). He has been granted three
annual scholarships by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY)
and he has been awarded by the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE-TGC) for Exceptional Graduate Performance. He was nominated as
Exemplary Reviewer for the IEEE Communications Letters (January 2015)
, Reviewer of the Month for the IEEE Access (June 2018) and
Outstanding Reviewer for Sensors (2018),
while he has received the
best paper award in IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, the
best demo award in IEEE CAMAD 2014 and the
EURACON best paper award in EuCNC 2016. He has an extensive supervising experience, having been awarded with the
1st prize in the IEEE ComSoc Student Competition (as a Mentor), while he was
director at the Best UPC Thesis in ICT for the year 2018. Dr. Antonopoulos is an
IEEE Senior Member and he is currently the
Secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM).