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
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
Resource Allocation for Service Chaining in Multi-layer Edge-Cloud Networks
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
03/01/2024Profile-based Data-driven Approach to Analyse Virtualised Network Functions Performance
2023 22nd International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT)
NetMind
5G-VIOS: Towards next generation intelligent inter-domain network service orchestration and resource optimisation
Computer Networks
Federated Analytics for 6G Networks
IEEE Network
iOn-Profiler: Intelligent Online Multi-Objective VNF Profiling With Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management