Leandros Tassiulas

Prof. Leandros Tassiulas is a John C. Malone Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, obtained the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He has held positions as Assistant Professor at Polytechnic University New York (1991-1995), Assistant and Associate Professor University of Maryland College Park (1995-2001), and Professor at University of Ioannina (1999-2001) and University of Thessaly (2002-2015), Greece. His research interests are in the field of computer and communication networks with emphasis on fundamental mathematical models, architectures and protocols of wireless systems, sensor networks, high-speed internet and satellite communications. Dr. Tassiulas is a Fellow of IEEE. He received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Award in 1992, an NSF CAREER Award in 1995 an Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Award in 1997 and a Bodosaki Foundation award in 1999. He also received the INFOCOM 1994 best paper award,the INFOCOM 2007 achievement award, and the IEEE 2016 Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communication Award.