Personnel


CELESTE Personnel


Principal Investigator

Maria Diamanti, PhD

Maria Diamanti
Maria Diamanti

Biography

Maria Diamanti is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. She received her Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2018 and her Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens in 2023. She has been awarded the M. Stassinopoulos - VIOHALCO Foundation Best Ph.D. Thesis award. Her research interests lie in the areas of 5G/6G wireless networks, resource management and optimization, game theory, contract theory, prospect theory, and reinforcement learning.

Advisory Board

Symeon Papavassiliou, Professor

Symeon Papavassiliou
Symeon Papavassiliou

Biography

Symeon Papavassiliou is currently a Professor in the School of ECE at National Technical University of Athens. From 1995 to 1999, he was a senior technical staff member at AT\&T Laboratories, New Jersey. In August 1999 he joined the ECE Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, where he was an Associate Professor until 2004. He has an established record of publications in his field of expertise, with more than 450 technical journal and conference published papers. His main research interests lie in the area of computer communication networks, with emphasis on the analysis, optimization, and performance evaluation of mobile and distributed systems, wireless networks, and complex systems. He received the Best Paper Award in IEEE INFOCOM 94, the AT\&T Division Recognition and Achievement Award in 1997, the US National Science Foundation Career Award in 2003, the Best Paper Award in IEEE WCNC 2012, the Excellence in Research Grant in Greece in 2012, the Best Paper Awards in ADHOCNETS 2015, ICT 2016, IEEE/IFIP WMNC 2019, IEEE Globecom 2022, as well as the 2019 IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling best paper award (for his INFOCOM 2019 paper). He also served on the board of the Greek National Regulatory Authority on Telecommunications and Posts from 2006 to 2009.

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Professor

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou

Biography

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou received her Diploma, MBA, and PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens in 2008, 2010, and 2014, respectively. Dr. Tsiropoulou is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University and Director of the Performance and Resource Optimization in Networks -- PROTON Lab. Her main research interests lie in the area of cyber-physical social systems and wireless heterogeneous networks, with an emphasis on network modeling and optimization, resource orchestration in interdependent systems, reinforcement learning, game theory, network economics, and the Internet of Things. Five of her papers received the Best Paper Award at IEEE WCNC in 2012, ADHOCNETS in 2015, IEEE/IFIP WMNC 2019, INFOCOM 2019 by the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling, and IEEE/ACM BRAINS 2020. She received the NSF CRII Award in 2019 and the Early Career Award by the IEEE Communications Society Internet Technical Committee in 2019. In 2017, she was selected by the IEEE Communication Society–N2Women–as one of the Top Ten Rising Stars in the communications and networking field.