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Professor Dimitra Simeonidou
BSc(Aristotelian), MSc(Aristotelian), PhD(Essex)
Current positions
Head of Bristol Digital Futures Institute
Bristol Digital Futures InstituteProfessor 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
Joint Open Infrustructure For Networks Research - Testbed
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/12/2023 to 31/03/2025
OAFI 8461 Future Communications Hub In All-Spectrum Connectivity Extension
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/10/2023 to 31/03/2025
Future communications hub in all-spectrum connectivity
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/05/2023 to 30/04/2026
Future communications hub in all-spectrum connectivity
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/05/2023 to 30/04/2026
Thesis supervisions
Programmable Smart NIC: Accelerating Intra-Server and Inter-Server Networking
Supervisors
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
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
Publications
Recent publications
28/03/2024Field Trial Demonstration of AI-Engine Driven Cross-Domain Rerouting and Optimisation in Dynamic Optical Networks
49th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2023)
Field-Trial Demonstration of ML Deployment in Optical Networks Using Telemetry and AI Engine
49th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2023)
Multi-RAT enhanced Private Wireless Networks with Intent-Based Network Management Automation
2023 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2023
Profile-based Data-driven Approach to Analyse Virtualised Network Functions Performance
22nd International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2023