Professor Dimitra Simeonidou
BSc(Aristotelian), MSc(Aristotelian), PhD(Essex)
Current positions
Professor and Director, Smart Internet Lab
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
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Biography
Dimitra Simeonidou FREng, FIEEE, Royal Society Wolfson Scholar
Dimitra is a Full Professor at the University of Bristol, the Co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute and the Director of Smart Internet Lab. Her research is focusing in the fields of high performance networks, programmable networks, wireless-optical convergence, 5G/B5G and smart city infrastructures. She is increasingly working with Social Sciences on topics of digital transformation for society and businesses. Dimitra has been the Technical Architect and the CTO of the smart city project Bristol Is Open. She is currently leading the Bristol City/Region 5G urban pilots.
She is the author and co-author of over 600 publications, numerous patents and several major contributions to standards.
She has been co-founder of two spin-out companies, the latest being the University of Bristol VC funded spin-out Zeetta Networks, http://www.zeetta.com, delivering SDN solutions for enterprise and emergency networks.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Establish a future communications systems early-stage federated hub extension
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2025 to 30/04/2026
OAFI 8461 Future Communications Systems Hub: Platform Driving The Ultimate Connectivity (Network Of Networks) 2 - TITAN 2
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2025 to 31/03/2026
OAFI 8461 - HASC (Future Communications Hub in All-Spectrum Connectivity II)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2025 to 31/03/2026
OAFI 8461 JOINER 1 year extension
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2025 to 31/03/2026
OAFI 8461 NDFF Phase 2 (2025-2028)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/04/2025 to 31/03/2028
Thesis supervisions
Autonomous service management of virtual network functions migration and placement for end-to-end advanced wireless communication (5g)
Supervisors
Network Aware Resource Management in Disaggregated Data Centers
Supervisors
Resource Allocation and Optimisation of Elastic Optical Networks in Nonlinear Regime
Supervisors
Machine Learning in Optical Fibre Networking Under Uncertainty
Supervisors
Programmable Smart NIC
Supervisors
5G Neutral Hosting
Supervisors
A Systematic Methodology for Technology Interventions in the Urban Environment
Supervisors
Resource Allocation for Service Chaining in Multi-layer Edge-Cloud Networks
Supervisors
Private 5G Networks
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
17/03/2025DRL-Assisted Dynamic Qot-Aware Service Provisioning in Multi-Band Elastic Optical Networks
50th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2024)
DRL for Network Slicing
IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
Fast Link Recovery via PTP-Synchronized Nanosecond Optical Switching
29th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM 2025)
Federated Transfer Component Analysis Towards Effective VNF Profiling
GLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference
Related people
Dr Shuangyi Yan
Senior Lecturer in High Performance Networking & Optical Networking
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Mr Anderson Bravalheri
Research Fellow
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Dr Rui Wang
Lecturer
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Mr Mark Yang
Research Associate
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering
Mr Haiyuan Li
Research Associate in Future Network Intelligence
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering