CV (Resume)

Personal Info

Full name (First/Last): Vasilis Sourlas

Place of Birth: Athens

Year of Birth: 1980

Education

Sep 2007-Jul 2013:

University of Thessaly, Greece

Phd in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Thesis title: "Replication Management and Cache Aware Routing in Information-Centric Networking"

Gade: Excellent (10 out of 10)

(supervisor: Pr. Leandros Tassiulas)

Oct 2004 – Oct 2006:

Technical University of Patras, Greece

MSc (Master of Science) in the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics

Grade: Excellent

(supervisor: Pr. Manos Varvarigos)

Oct 1999 – Oct 2004:

Technical University of Patras, Greece

5 year Engineering diploma, Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics

Grade: 7.59 out of 10

(supervisor: Pr. Manos Varvarigos)

Scholarships

  • Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training II (EPEAEK II) during the Master Thesis (Oct 2004 – Oct 2006).
  • Heracleitus scholarship co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) Research Funding Program: Heracleitus II - Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund (Sep 2010 – July 2013).

Scholar visits

  • Ericsson Nomadiclab Helsinki Finland (2008): 3 month visit (PSIRP project)
  • VTT Oulu Finland (2009): two weeks (Euro-NF project)
  • VTT Espoo Finland (2010): two weeks (Euro-NF project)

Awards

  • Marie Curie Fellow (IEF) Jan 2015- Dec 2016
  • ACM MobiArch 2016 Best Paper Award
  • IEEE LANMAN 2016 Best Paper Award
  • IFIP NETWORKING 2015 Best Paper Award
  • Member of the PURSUIT project (researcher in CERTH-ITI), which has been awarded the Future Internet Award at the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) in Dublin 2013 for its outstanding contribution to redefining the existing Internet design in order to ensure users’ stronger control over their data while enhancing broadband connections.
  • Student travel grant from the IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2012 conference in network management.