Angelos Antonopoulos is Research and Innovation Director at Nearby Computing S.L. Prior to that, he was 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/6G networking, including AI/XAI-driven network automation, zero-touch network and service management (ZSM), network architectures, network virtualization/slicing, Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), network economics and analytical modeling/optimization. He is currently leading the R&I activities of Nearby Computing, while he has long experience in European (FP7, H2020, HORIZON) and Spanish national research projects, having acted also as consortium-wide Project Manager. He has served as an individual expert evaluator of research proposals in several national research bodies across Europe (i.e., Belgium, Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Kazakhstan).
He has served in the Editorial Board of IEEE Access, IEEE Networking Letters, Computer Networks (Elsevier) and Inventions (MDPI). He has been granted three annual scholarships by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and he has been awarded by the Technical Chamber of Greece for Exceptional Graduate Performance. He has several nominations as Exemplary Reviewer (IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Access, Sensors, Publons, etc.) while he has received several awards for his research (best paper award IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 and EuCNC 2016, best demo award IEEE CAMAD 2014). 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. In 2024, he has been listed among the "Best Computer Science Scientists" by Research.com that includes ~1% of top scholars. Dr. Antonopoulos is an IEEE Senior Member and has served as an officer (Secretary and Vice-Chair) in the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM).
Email: angelos.antonopoulos@ieee.org
