Marios Avgeris

PhD

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UvA - LAB42

Science Park 900

1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands

I am currently holding an Assistant Professor position with the Informatics Institute (IvI) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), carrying out work in the Multiscale Networked Systems (MNS) group. My research focuses in next-generation network management and orchestration, combining techniques from machine learning, and control theory. Specifically, I focus on designing intelligent, self-adaptive network architectures that leverage advanced AI techniques and/or rigorous control-theoretic principles to optimize performance and formally guarantee reliability. Recently, I have also been exploring the development of goal-oriented, semantic communication frameworks and the integration of generative AI to enable proactive network optimization, digital twinning, and zero-touch service management.

I have received my diploma from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2016, and my PhD from the same department in 2021. All this time at NTUA I was embedded at the NETwork Management and Optimal DEsign (NETMODE) Lab. From 2022 to 2024, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and the Software and Information Technology Engineering department at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, Canada. In parallel, I worked at Ericsson Canada. During that time, I was also awarded the CU-PSAC Postdoctoral Fellow Research Award.

More details about my background can be found here: Curriculum Vitae

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Research Areas of Interest:

Edge, Fog & Cloud Computing | Computational Offloading | Network Resource Allocation | NFV/SFC Placement | Network Self Optimization & Management | Intent-Based Networking | Edge Robotics | IoT | Reinforcement Learning (RL) | Control Theory | 5G/6G Networks


News

Apr 16, 2025 Our work on ‘Reinforcement Learning-based Adaptive Path Selection for Programmable Networks’ was presented today as a poster at NWO ICT.OPEN 2025 in Utrecht! :bar_chart:
Apr 1, 2025 Our work Digital Sovereignty in Practice: Leveraging In-Band Telemetry and ML for a Responsible Internet was successfully presented today as a demonstrator at OFC50 in San Fransisco! :bar_chart:
Mar 31, 2025 Our work ‘MANTRA-6G: Management and Orchestration for Cloud- and AI-Native 6G Networks’ has been accepted as a Poster for 2025 EuCNC & 6G Summit! :star_struck:
Feb 20, 2025 Excited to share that I have been appointed as an Associate Editor for the Springer Journal of Cloud Computing! :star2:
Feb 10, 2025 Happy to announce that I will be chairing the Workshop on Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems (MINDS) of the 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2026) for the third consecutive year! My co-chairs for this year will be Dr. Shashikant Ilager and Dr. Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran! :fireworks:

Selected Publications

  1. Adaptive resource allocation for computation offloading: A control-theoretic approach
    Marios Avgeris, Dimitrios Dechouniotis, Nikolaos Athanasopoulos, and 1 more author
    ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 2019
  2. Task offloading in Edge and Cloud Computing: A survey on mathematical, artificial intelligence and control theory solutions
    Firdose Saeik, Marios Avgeris, Dimitrios Spatharakis, and 7 more authors
    Computer Networks, 2021
  3. VNF Placement and Dynamic NUMA Node Selection Through Core Consolidation at the Edge and Cloud
    Taha Ben Salah, Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2024
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    Cooperative Learning-Based Framework for VNF Caching and Placement Optimization Over Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks
    Khai Doan, Marios Avgeris, Aris Leivadeas, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2025
  5. EMDTORA: Energy-Aware Multi-User Dependent Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in MEC Using Graph-Enabled DRL
    Sangrez Khan, Marios Avgeris, Julien Gascon-Samson, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2024