Abstract: During the first part of this presentation, I will go over an anecdotal overview of my academic and corporate career, the experiences and the lessons learned and why they may be relevant to our ECE students. In the second part of the presentation, I will briefly introduce 5G/6G networks, and I will outline current R&D efforts toward programmatically or empirically designing planet-scale networks of arbitrary complexity.
Speaker:
Constantine Polychronopoulos is Group Vice President at Juniper Networks responsible for 5G products and technology. Before joining Juniper, he was VP and CTO of the Telco & Edge Computing division at VMware, leading the development of VMware’s products on virtualization for 4G & 5G mobile networks. Prior to VMware he was VP & CTO of Cloud Networking at Citrix, following the acquisition of Bytemobile, Inc. in 2012. As Founder & CTO of Bytemobile, he led the development of innovative products for web, streaming video and transport protocol optimization for mobile 3G and 4G/LTE networks that were deployed in more than 160 mobile networks around the world.
Prior to that, Constantine was a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Director of the Center for Supercomputing R&D at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has served as chairman or on the PC of more than 50 international conferences, has published more than 170 research papers in IEEE and ACM journals and conferences and has more than 35 issued and pending patents. He served on the Governance Committee of the University of Patras during 2012-2016, and among his recognitions are the NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, the 1998 Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, and the Pascal Chair Visiting Professorship at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. In 2015 he was named among the 50 innovators in the 50-year history of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Illinois.