George Xilouris
Research Scientist
Mr. Xilouris is a Research Scientist (Grade C) at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications and Head of the Networks Operations Center (NOC), of NCSR ‘‘Demokritos’’. Mr. Georgios Xylouris graduated on June 1999 from the Department of Physics of University of Ioannina. On September 2001 he received his Master’s (M.Sc.) degree in automation systems from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He joined the Media Networks Laboratory of National Center for Scientific Research ‘‘Demokritos’’ in 2000, to work on digital video broadcasting standard – terrestrial (DVB-T) for enabling data communications. After receiving his M.Sc. and till recently, he has been occupied as Research Associate in the Media Networks Laboratory working on European Research and Development projects in the fields of data networks, telecommunications and service management.
He has been active research associate since 2000 and has participated in numerous EU and national funded projects, collaborating with various academia and enterprises with presentations and publications at international conferences, scientific journals, and book chapters. He has strong technical and research expertise in the fields of Network Virtu- alisation and Management, Programmable Networks, Cloud Networks, Satellite Networks, Media delivery technologies and Performance Evaluation of IT services. He is the author/co-author of more than 80 scientific papers in interna- tional journals, technical books, and book chapters, numbering at least 1302 citations and h-index 201. Mr. Xilouris has served as independent expert (i.e., evaluator) on behalf of European funded R&D projects in the field of ICT. He has also acted as a reviewer at numerous prestigious international journals and magazines. He served as a Technical Coordinator of T-NOVA EU funded project, that achieved the release the first NFV Orchestrator implementation. He is also member of the organizing committee of IEEE NFV-SDN conference since its initiation in 2014.
Alexandros Michael Kourtis
Researcher
Dr. Kourtis Michail-Alexandros received his PhD from UPV/EHU in 2018 and his Diploma and Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Athens University of economics and business, in 2011 and 2013 respectively. As of January 2010 he is working at NCSR “Demokritos”. His research interests include QoE, QoS, Video Processing, Video Quality Assessment, Image Processing, LTE, 5G, Network Function Virtualization, and Software Defined Networks