IoT Communications and Networks

Georgios Z. Papadopoulos serves as an Associate Professor at IMT Atlantique in Rennes, France, while also holding a position as a Research Scientist at the IRT b<>com in Rennes. He previously worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bristol. Dr. Papadopoulos earned his HDR from the University of Rennes 1 in 2021 and his PhD with honors from the University of Strasbourg in 2015. He has delivered over 20 keynote, tutorial, and invited talks at various international conferences, universities, and research labs worldwide. Actively involved in the organization and program committees of numerous scientific events, such as IEEE CSCN’22 and IEEE GLOBECOM’21, he has also served as an Associate Editor for Wireless Networks, Internet Technology Letters, and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies since 2018. With over 80 peer-reviewed publications in computer communications, networks, and cybersecurity, Dr. Papadopoulos participates in the IETF standards organization, contributing multiple drafts to the RAW, ROLL, and DetNet Working Groups. His research interests encompass Industrial IoT, Deterministic Networks, Smart Grid, Wireless Battery Management Systems in Electric Vehicles, Cybersecurity, and Integrated Access and Backhaul for 5G networks. He teaches courses at IMT Atlantique and the University of Rennes 1 and has been invited to deliver short courses globally, including at the University of Buenos Aires and the International Hellenic University, focusing on wireless networks and the Internet of Things.

Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis is an Associate Professor in the DAPI department at IMT Atlantique in Nantes, France, and a member of the STACK2 (LS2N/INRIA) research team, focusing on the networking aspects of edge geo-distributed systems. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at IMT Atlantique in Rennes, specializing in protocols for high-performance Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networking. Koutsiamanis earned his PhD from the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece, where he applied game theory to network Quality of Service (QoS) problems. He also holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a degree in Informatics from the University of Piraeus

Geraldine Texier is an Associate Professor at Institut Mines-Télécom, specializing in IoT Communications and Networks. She teaches the course IoT Communications and Networks on Coursera, which focuses on the architecture and protocols necessary for effective communication in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment.

Nicolas Montavont is an Associate Professor at Institut Mines-Télécom, where he teaches the course IoT Communications and Networks. His expertise lies in the networking aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT), focusing on how devices communicate effectively within this rapidly evolving field.