
Professor Dimitra Simeonidou
BSc(Aristotelian), MSc(Aristotelian), PhD(Essex)
Current positions
Professor 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
Integrated Quantum Networks
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/12/2024 to 30/11/2029
Integrated Quantum Networks
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/12/2024 to 30/11/2029
TITAN mini-project
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/01/2024 to 31/03/2025
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
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
Programmable Smart NIC
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
Private 5G Networks
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
28/03/2024100 Gbps Multi-Tenant FPGA-based MACsec Aggregation to Secure the Open-RAN Fronthaul
49th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2023)
AI Model Placement for 6G Networks Under Epistemic Uncertainty Estimation
ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
Connecting the Unconnected
2025 IEEE 22nd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
DRL-Assisted Dynamic Qot-Aware Service Provisioning in Multi-Band Elastic Optical Networks
50th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2024)
Field Trial Demonstration of AI-Engine Driven Cross-Domain Rerouting and Optimisation in Dynamic Optical Networks
49th European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2023)