Marios Avgeris

Marios Avgeris received his diploma from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2016 and his PhD in 2021. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Informatics Institute (IvI) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands, and a member of the Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) group.

From 2022 to 2024, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and the Software and Information Technology Engineering department at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, Canada.

In parallel, he worked at Ericsson Canada. His research interest focuses on Control Theory, Machine & Reinforcement Learning, Edge & Cloud Computing, IoT, Network Optimization and Management in Next Generation Networks. He received the CU-PSAC Postdoctoral Fellow Research Award in 2023. 

Shashikant Ilager

Shashikant Ilager is an Assistant Professor at the Informatics Institute (Ivl), University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is a member of the Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) group and his research lies at the intersection of distributed systems, energy efficiency, and machine learning. He focuses on designing, optimizing, and developing large-scale computing system platforms, such as cloud and edge platforms, to minimize their environmental and economic costs. His work is grounded in the characterization of distributed systems and their optimization through data-driven learning-centric approaches. Recently, he has been focusing on the sustainability of data-intensive AI applications to enhance their performance and energy efficiency.

Before joining UvA, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the High Performance Computing (HPC) group at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria and has completed his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the CLOUDS Lab, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Chrysa Papagianni

Chrysa Papagianni is an Associate Professor at the MNS group of the Institute of Informatics, at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focus is on network softwarization and programmability including software-defined networking, network slicing and orchestration and AI/ML-driven network intelligence and automation for next generation networks. She completed my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens.

Afterwards, she worked as a post-doc researcher at the NETMODE lab (ECE/NTUA) and then as a Research Scientist for the Institute for Systems Research, at the University of Maryland, with a joint appointment at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining UvA, she worked as a network research engineer for the End-to-End Network Service Automation Lab in Nokia Bell Labs (Belgium).

Francesco Regazzoni

Francesco Regazzoni is an Associate Professor in at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. His research interests comprise a variety of topics in security, especially on efficient implementation of privacy preserving technologies, physical and side channel attacks and countermeasures, hardware trojans, post quantum cryptography, lightweight cryptography, and design automation for security. He has been the general chair of CARDIS 2017/23, COSADE 2021, SAMOS 2024, SPACE 2023, CCSW 2022/23, FDTC 2017, DATE 2021/22/23 and has served in the editorial board TCHES and ToSC.

He did his master at Politecnico di Milano (Milano, Italy) and his PhD at ALaRI Institute of Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland). He has been postdoctoral researcher at the Crypto Group of the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium), at ALaRI Institute and at TU Delft (Delft, The Netherlands).

Paola Grosso

Paola Grosso is full professor in the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the Multi Scale Networked Systems group (MNS) and the Scientific Director of the Informatics Institute (IvI). She is a computer scientist, with a passion for everything networking. She researches the emerging architectures that can support the operations of the future Internet. In particular she focuses on the delivery of secure and sustainable network services across multiple domains, one of the major challenges in networking. Device programmability and virtualization play in this field an ever increasing role in designing networks. Her research tackles the new questions that emerge from studying the interplay of these novel capabilities.

Ana Oprescu

Ana Oprescu is Assistant Professor in the Complex CyberInfrastructure research group in the Institute of Informatics (IvI) at the University of Amsterdam since 2021.
Previously she was a lecturer in the Parallel Computing Systems research group in the same institute. She is the Program Director of the Software Engineering and the Security and Network Engineering masters, as well as a member of the Women in the Faculty of Science (WiF) board. She received her Senior Teaching Qualification in 2020.

Her research goal is to understand the fundamental laws governing the complexity of modern software services such that we can eventually build controllable sustainable complex software services. She published more than 40 articles in international conferences and journals.

Niels Sijm

As Systems Engineer, Niels Sijm keeps the SNE labs & infrastructure up to par with developments in the field. Being head of the SNE Admissions Board he arranges the intake exams & interviews and is the first point of contact for prospective students. Once admitted you'll meet Niels in the classroom for a myriad of educational activities such as lectures, research projects, and lab support.

Besides working for UvA Niels is active as freelance IT engineer and barista. He is a member of NLnet's Internet Hardening Fund Review Committee and loves to dive deep into new as well as proven technologies. He explores the balance between nature & technology, co-founded the online platform Uniq Colours, and strives to lead a life he doesn't need a vacation from.