Symeon Papavassiliou is currently a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), and serves as the Director of the Network Management and Optimal Design (NETMODE) Laboratory of NTUA. 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 been a founding member and Associate Director of the New Jersey Center for Wireless Networking and Internet Security (2002-2004, New Jersey, USA). His main research interests lie in the areas of management and security of computer and communications networks, with emphasis on the analysis, optimization and performance evaluation of distributed and stochastic network-centric infrastructures and services, data analysis and machine learning, wireless networks, complex networks and systems, social networks, and Internet of Things. His research has been recognized and funded by many industry and government international organizations including, European Commission under several Framework Programs and H2020, European Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) Progarm, European Space Agency (ESA), General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) in Greece, Hellenic Foundations for research & Innovations (HFRI), National Science Foundation (NSF), MITRE Corp., Panasonic, Nortrhrop-Grumman, New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology etc. He has an established record of publications in his field of expertise, with more than 450 technical journal and conference published papers. 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 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. He has also held several leading positions in the organizing committees of international conferences (including General Chair, Technical Committee Program Chair, etc.), as well as in the editorial team of various international journals.