Papaioannou Thanasis – Resume

Athanasios Papaioannou is Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Industry Technologies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Principal Researcher at the Services, Technology and Economics Laboratory (http://stecon.cs.aueb.gr) of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree (1998) and a Master’s Degree (2000) from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Crete, and a PhD (2007) in Informatics with “Honours” from the Athens University of Economics and Business.

His thesis was in the area of economic networks entitled “Accounting Data Collection Architectures and Incentive/Billing Mechanisms in Telecommunication Environments”. From 2008 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory.

He has 80 peer-reviewed publications (including 1 book and 15 journal articles) that have received notable recognition from the scientific community with more than 1,950 citations.

His main research interests include optimal cloud computing resource management, the distributed ledger, demand response mechanisms in the smart grid, incentive mechanisms in telecommunication environments, and trust and privacy issues. He has contributed research in the above research areas to over 22 European and national funded research projects.