Photonics in Informatics

Dr. Nikos Pleros joined the faculty of the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2007, where he is currently serving as an Assistant Professor. He obtained the Diploma and the PhD Degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2000 and 2004, respectively.

His research interests include optical interconnect technologies and architectures, photonic integrated circuit technologies, optical technologies for disaggregated data center architectures and high-performance computing, silicon photonics and plasmonics, optical signal processing, optical switching and fiber-wireless technologies and protocols for 5G mobile networks. He has more than 250 archival journal publications and conference presentations including several invited contributions, while his work has been cited >2600 times. He has held positions of responsibility at several major conference committees including ECOC, OFC and SPIE Photonics West. 

Dr. Pleros has coordinated several FP7 and H2020 European projects including ICT-STREAMS, PlasmoFab, RAMPLAS, PLATON and 5G-PHOS, while he has participated as partner in more than 10 additional projects. He has received the 2003 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship granted to 12 PhD candidates world-wide in the field of photonics, while he was proud to (co-) supervise three more Fellowship winners (Dr. D. Fitsios in 2014, Dr. C. Vagionas in 2016 and Dr. P. Maniotis in 2017) during their PhD. Dr. Pleros was recently awarded the AUTH Excellence Award for his research project funding ID between 2016-2018. He was also awarded the 15th prize in the Greek Mathematical Olympiad in 1993. He is a member of the IEEE Photonics Society and the IEEE Communications Society.