Marios Avgeris

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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News

Aug 6, 2025	Our paper ‘FEDORA: Federated Ensemble Reinforcement Learning for DAG-Based Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in MEC’ has been published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal!
Jul 9, 2025	Our demo ‘Programmable & Trustworthy Data Paths for Sovereign Network Services’ was presented today at the 25th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2025)!
Jun 19, 2025	I gave an invited talk on “Networks for AI” for the IEEE Future Networks Ar-ficial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AIML) Working Group. Slides and video available.
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!
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!

Selected Publications

TOIT

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

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@article{avgeris2019adaptive,
  title = {Adaptive resource allocation for computation offloading: A control-theoretic approach},
  author = {Avgeris, Marios and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)},
  volume = {19},
  number = {2},
  pages = {1--20},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3284553},
}

ComNet

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

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@article{saeik2021task,
  title = {Task offloading in Edge and Cloud Computing: A survey on mathematical, artificial intelligence and control theory solutions},
  author = {Saeik, Firdose and Avgeris, Marios and Spatharakis, Dimitrios and Santi, Nina and Dechouniotis, Dimitrios and Violos, John and Leivadeas, Aris and Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos and Mitton, Nathalie and Papavassiliou, Symeon},
  journal = {Computer Networks},
  volume = {195},
  pages = {108177},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.comnet.2021.108177},
}

TNSM

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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@article{10496505,
  author = {Salah, Taha Ben and Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management},
  title = {VNF Placement and Dynamic NUMA Node Selection Through Core Consolidation at the Edge and Cloud},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {1-1},
  keywords = {Servers;Delays;Resource management;Costs;Random access memory;Quality of service;Throughput;Network Function Virtualization;Service Function Chaining;Edge Computing;Cloud Computing;Resource Allocation;Non-Uniform Memory Access},
  doi = {10.1109/TNSM.2024.3387275},
}

TVT

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

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@article{10750362,
  author = {Doan, Khai and Avgeris, Marios and Leivadeas, Aris and Lambadaris, Ioannis and Shin, Wonjae},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology},
  title = {Cooperative Learning-Based Framework for VNF Caching and Placement Optimization Over Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {74},
  number = {3},
  pages = {4758-4773},
  keywords = {Satellites;Low earth orbit satellites;Delays;Optimization;Topology;Resource management;Network topology;Earth;Costs;Convergence;Bayesian optimization;multi-agent reinforcement learning;network function virtualization;satellite networks;service function chains},
  doi = {10.1109/TVT.2024.3487015},
}

TGCN

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

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@article{10787266,
  author = {Khan, Sangrez and Avgeris, Marios and Gascon-Samson, Julien and Leivadeas, Aris},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking},
  title = {EMDTORA: Energy-Aware Multi-User Dependent Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in MEC Using Graph-Enabled DRL},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {1-1},
  keywords = {Resource management;Internet of Things;Energy consumption;Delays;Servers;Minimization;Optimization;Dynamic scheduling;Heuristic algorithms;Computational modeling;Task Offloading;Resource Allocation;MEC;IoT;DRL;Graph Attention Networks;Energy Efficiency},
  doi = {10.1109/TGCN.2024.3514578},
}