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, From 2003 till 2014 he was a researcher and professor at Athens Information Technology. He has participated in 9 EU funded projects and published numerous research papers. Lazaros Gkatzikis [S'09-M'13] is a senior research engineer at the Huawei France Research Center. Previously, he held research-related positions at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), His main research interests are in network performance evaluation and optimization. He received the Dipl.Eng. degree from the National Technical University of Athens (1995) and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Boston University, 1997.

, He was a visiting scholar in computer science and engineering at SUNY at Buffalo from 2012 to, Liu Liu received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in communication and information systems at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2011 and 2015, respectively, 2014.