Maria Papadopouli

Professor at KTH | Kungliga Tekniska högskolan & Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Crete

Maria Papadopouli (Ph.D. Columbia University, October 2002) is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Crete, a guest Professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, and a research associate in FORTH-ICS. From July 2002 until June 2006, she was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at UNC (on leave from July 2004 until June 2006). Her current research interests are in wireless networking, modeling and performance analysis, network measurements, cognitive radio networks, mobile peer-to-peer computing, positioning, and pervasive computing. She had proposed one of the first peer-to-peer architectures for mobile devices.She has co-authored a monograph on Peer-to-Peer Computing for Mobile Networks: Information Discovery and Dissemination (Springer Eds. 2009). Several of her papers have received a honourable mention. She has been the co-chair of nine international workshops in the area of wireless networks and mobile peer-to-peer computing. She has given more than 25 invited talks in research labs and universities world-wide. In 2004 and 2005, she was awarded with an IBM Faculty Award, while in 2012, her research was also funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Program “Αριστεία”, Research Excellence, Investigator-driven program (the national ERC-like funding).

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