Pavlos Antoniou is a member of the Special Teaching Staff at the Department of Computer Science in the University of Cyprus since 2009, and a member of the Networks Research Laboratory (NetRL) since 2005. He holds a Ph.D. (2012) in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus and a Dip.Ing. degree (2005) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). Apart from his teaching responsibilities, he is also serving as a Research Associate for the Erasmus+ funded SEnDIng Project developing educational material for the Internet of Things (IoT) online course since January 2018. Before his current appointment, he has been a Research Associate of the Computer Science Department from September 2005 to June 2009. In particular, he has been the main Researcher in the RPF-funded MiND2C project dealing with Mimicking Nature for Designing Robust Congestion Control Mechanisms in Self-Organized Autonomous Decentralized Networks from December 2008 to June 2009. He has also been a Researcher in the EU-funded GINSENG project dealing with Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks from September 2008 to June 2009. Furthermore, he has been a Researcher in the UCY funded ADAVIDEO project from August 2005 to November 2006 dealing with adaptive video transmission in the Internet.

His research interests include design (protocols, architectures, applications) and analysis (modelling, simulation and implementation) of networked systems. In particular, he is interested in concepts of complex control and biologically/nature inspired techniques including Computational Swarm Intelligence (e.g. Bird Flocking behavior) and Mathematical Models in Population Biology (e.g. Lotka-Volterra model), for enabling robust, self-organized and self-adaptable networked systems. Furthermore, he has particular interest in Machine Learning algorithms, techniques and tools for analysing behaviour and solving problems in complex systems, especially on energy-efficient environments.

He also enjoys combining research, discovery and problem-solving to create novel products and services that will benefit the public. He has been involved in the startup scene as a co-founder of the Viridom project which aims to make homes and buildings energy-intelligent.

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Publications

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• Chapter "Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks based on the Lotka Volterra Competition Model", Pavlos Antoniou, and Andreas Pitsillides, Biologically Inspired Networking and Sensing: Algorithms and Architectures, edited by Dinesh C. Verma and Pietro Lio, IGI Book, pp. 158-181, 2011.
• IEEE Commun Surv Tut'14 "A Comprehensive Survey of Congestion Control Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks", Charalambos Sergiou, Pavlos Antoniou, and Vasos Vassiliou, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 16, Issue 4, pp. 1839-1859, December 2014.
• Elsevier ComNet'13 "Congestion control in wireless sensor networks based on bird flocking behavior", Pavlos Antoniou, Andreas Pitsillides, Tim Blackwell, Andries Engelbrecht, and Loizos Michael, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 1167-1191, April 2013.
• Ph.D. Thesis "Nature-Inspired Congestion Control and Avoidance in Wireless Sensor Networks", Pavlos Antoniou, Computer Science Department, University of Cyprus, May 2012.
• Elsevier ComCom'10 "A Bio-Inspired Approach for Streaming Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks based on the Lotka-Volterra Competition Model", Pavlos Antoniou and Andreas Pitsillides, Elsevier Computer Communications, Special Issue on Applied Sciences in Communication Technologies, Vol. 33, Issue 17, November 15, 2010, pp. 2039-2047.
• ISABEL'11 "Applying Swarm Intelligence to a Novel Congestion Control Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks", Pavlos Antoniou, Andreas Pitsillides, Andries Engelbrecht and Tim Blackwell, Invited paper, 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2011), Barcelona, Spain, October 26-29, 2011.
• ISABEL'10 "Mimicking the Bird Flocking Behavior for Controlling Congestion in Sensor Networks", Pavlos Antoniou, Andreas Pitsillides, Andries Engelbrecht and Tim Blackwell, Invited Paper, 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2010), Rome, Italy, November 7-10, 2010.
• ICANN'09 "Congestion Control in Autonomous Decentralized Networks based on the Lotka-Volterra Competition Model", Pavlos Antoniou, and Andreas Pitsillides, 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2009), LNCS 5769, Limassol, Cyprus, September 14-17, 2009, pp. 986-996.
• IEEE CEC'09 "Employing the Flocking Behavior of Birds for Controlling Congestion in Autonomous Decentralized Networks", Pavlos Antoniou, Andreas Pitsillides, Tim Blackwell and Andries Engelbrecht, 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), May 18-21, Trondheim, Norway.
• IEEE PIMRC'07 "ADIVIS: A Novel Adaptive Algorithm for Video Streaming over the Internet", Pavlos Antoniou, Vasos Vassiliou and Andreas Pitsillides, 18th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2007), Athens, Greece, September 3-6, 2007.
• IEEE ISCC'07 "Adaptive Feedback Algorithm for Internet Video Streaming based on Fuzzy Rate Control", Pavlos Antoniou, Andreas Pitsillides and Vasos Vassiliou, 12th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'07), Aveiro, Portugal, July 1-4, 2007, pp. 219-226.
• ICANN'06 "Requirements for the Transmission of Streaming Video in Mobile Wireless Networks", Vasos Vassiliou, Pavlos Antoniou, Iraklis Giannakou, and Andreas Pitsillides, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006), Athens, Greece, September 10-14, 2006, pp. 528-537.
• IFIP IWSOS'09 "Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks based on the Bird Flocking Behavior", Pavlos Antoniou, Andreas Pitsillides, Andries Engelbrecht, Tim Blackwell and Loizos Michael, IFIP 4th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2009), Zurich, Switzerland, December 9-11, 2009, pp. 200-205.
• ERCIM'07"Delivering Adaptive Scalable Video over the Wireless Internet", Pavlos Antoniou, Vasos Vassiliou and Andreas Pitsillides, 1st ERCIM Workshop on eMobility (in conjunction with WWIC2007), Coimbra, Portugal, May 21, 2007, pp. 23-34.
• MedHocNet'07 "Wireless Sensor Network Control: Drawing Inspiration from Complex Systems", Pavlos Antoniou and Andreas Pitsillides, Tutorial and Ph.D. Student Workshop (in conjunction with MedHocNet2007), Corfu, Greece, June 12-13, 2007.
• TR-11-05 "From Bird Flocks to Wireless Sensor Networks: A Congestion Control Approach", Pavlos Antoniou, and Andreas Pitsillides, Technical Report TR-11-05, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, September, 2011.
• TR-07-01 "Understanding Complex Systems: A Communication Networks Perspective", Pavlos Antoniou, and Andreas Pitsillides, Technical Report TR-07-01, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, February, 2007.
• NISIS'07 "Towards a Scalable and Self-adaptable Congestion Control Approach for Autonomous Decentralized Networks", Pavlos Antoniou, and Andreas Pitsillides, 3rd European Symposium on Nature-inspired Smart Information Systems, St. Julians, Malta, November 26-27, 2007.
• Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar 07301'07 "Resilient and Survivable Networks, Infrastructures and Services", Pavlos Antoniou, and Andreas Pitsillides, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, Seminar 07301, July 22-25, 2007.

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Courses More »

• DSC510 Introduction to Data Science and Analytics
• EPL674 System and Network Security
• EPL660 Information Retrieval and Search Engines
• EPL606 Computer Networks and the Internet
• EPL448 Data Mining on the Web (ex EPL451)
• EPL423 Network and Information Security
• EPL422 Advanced Networks
• EPL421 Systems Programming (ex EPL371)
• EPL343 Software Engineering (ex EPL361)
• EPL324 Communications and Networks
• EPL232 Programming Techniques and Tools
• EPL132 Programming Principles II (Retired)
• EPL131 Programming Principles I
• EPL035 Data Structures and Algorithms for Electrical and Computer Engineers
• EPL034 Introduction to Programming for Electrical and Computer Engineers
• EPL033 Introduction to Programming for Engineers
• EPL032 Introduction to Computer Science and Information Systems
• EPL003 Computer Science and Information Systems
• EPL001 Introduction to Computer Science

*** Courses currently involved in are illustrated in green.

Departmental Service

• CS Department Website Pavlos Antoniou is the Computer Science Departmental Webmaster. He is responsible for the development, updates and maintenance of the departmental website as well as for updates on the departmental social media accounts.
• Logipaignion Competition Website Pavlos Antoniou is the Logipaignion Webmaster. He is responsible for updating and maintaining the Logipaignion website. Logipaignion is an annual competition for high school and high school students and for University students, related to the creation of computer games, co-organized by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus.
• Hour-of-Code Pavlos Antoniou supports the hour of code iniative as a volunteer instructor.

Honors and Awards

• Ranked within top 3% graduate students, of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
• Scholarship from the Greek Foundation of National Scholarships (IKY) for achieving the 4th highest GPA in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, during 5th and 6th semester.
• Special award for academic excellence each year during three years in Kykkos A' Lyceum.

Links

• Νήσος Αγίων Administrator of "Νήσος Αγίων" website, a project aiming to present the Divine Worship upcoming events of the Christian Orthodox Church in Cyprus.

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