Nikolaos Pappas - Group members

Are you interested in visiting the Communications for Networked Intelligent Systems (CNIS) Group? Please get in touch with Nikolaos Pappas with a copy of your resume and a research statement on what you expect to work and achieve during your stay.
Partial financial support may be provided in some cases.

Postdoc

• Eunjeong Jeong (PhD, EURECOM, France)

• Bowen Li (PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

PhD Students

Current

• (Main supervisor) Jiping Luo, Department of Computer and Information Science, LiU

• (Main supervisor) Erfan Delfani, Department of Computer and Information Science, LiU

• (Main supervisor) Ali Nikkhah, Department of Computer and Information Science, LiU

• (Main supervisor) Mehrdad Salimnejad, Department of Computer and Information Science, LiU

• (Main supervisor) Georgios Smpokos, ITN, (Licentiate: Apr. 2021), LiU & Vodafone, Greece

• (Co-supervisor) Kristina Levina, Department of Computer and Information Science, LiU & Ericsson

Graduated

• (Main supervisor) Antonia Arvanitaki (PhD 2025), ‘‘Performance Analysis of Wireless Systems with Security Constraints"
  Now with Netcompany-Intrasoft, Greece

• (Main supervisor) Emmanouil Fountoulakis (PhD 2021), ‘‘Performance and Optimization Aspects of Time Critical Networking"
  Now with Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden

• (Co-supervisor) Cristian Tatino, (PhD 2021), ‘‘Analysis and Optimization for Robust Millimeter-Wave Communications"
  Now with Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden

• (Co-supervisor) Antzela Kosta, (PhD 2020), ‘‘Age of Information Aware Communication Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis"
  Now with Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden

• (Co-supervisor) Ioannis Avgouleas, (PhD 2019), ‘‘Cooperation and Resource Allocation in Wireless Networking towards the IoT"
  Now with Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden

• (Co-supervisor) Manolis Ploumidis (PhD 2015), ‘‘Improving network performance through multipath utilization for wireless mesh networks"
  Now with Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (FORTH)

MSc Thesis Students (selected)

• E. Grehn, E. Simonson, ‘‘Evaluating Data Redundancy Reduction Methods for Efficient Distribution of 3GPP Configuration Data", Ericsson, 2025.

• V. Norgren, ‘‘The Accuracy and Robustness of the Precision Time Protocol in a Small Network", SAAB, 2025.

• G. Elmqvist, ‘‘Traffic Load Balancing in Virtual Private Networks: An implementation and comparison of algorithms", Sectra Communications, 2024.

• L. Olsson, ‘‘Traffic flow control with digital twin and AI", Combitech, 2023.

• A. Johansson, F. Johansson, ‘‘Verification Method for Time of Capture of a Rolling Shutter Image", Qualcomm, 2023.

• L. Laukka, C. Fransson, ‘‘Enhancing the performance of mobile networks using Kubernetes– Load balancing traffic by utilizing workload estimation", Ericsson, 2023.

• T. Aspegardh, L. Gardebrand, ‘‘Machine Learning-based Prediction of Handovers and Unnecessary Handovers in a Long-Term Evolution Network", Ericsson, 2022.

• J. Lantto, W. Wiholm, ‘‘Innovative communication strategies and modelling of robust sensor functions", SAAB, 2017.

Research Assistants/Engineers

• Eunjeong Jeong, Research Engineer working on project ROBUST-6G. (Sept. 2024 - Oct. 2024)

• Erfan Delfani, Research Engineer working on project ETHER. (Aug. 2023 - Feb. 2024)

• Jayanth Sampangi, ‘‘Semantics of Information“
  Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, India, sponsored by CUGS (Oct. - Dec. 2022)

Visitors

• Lin Dai, Visiting Professor, Apr. - July 2025
  Visiting from City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• Muhammad Azeem Khan, ‘‘Value of Information and Timing-aware Scheduling for Federated Learning", Feb. - June 2023
  Erasmus Exchange Student, Visiting from University of Calabria Italy.

• Deeraj Kumar, PhD student, Nov. - Dec. 2022
  Visiting from Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India.

• Pouya Agheli, PhD student, Sept. 2022
  Visiting from EURECOM, France.

• Parthajit Mohapatra, Visiting Professor, VR IndoSwedish collaborative project (June 2022, February 2024)
  Visiting from Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India.

• Jing Cheng, ‘‘Transmission mechanism design and optimization of resource allocation for URLLC“,
  Visiting PhD student from Beijing Jiaotong University, China sponsored by CSC (April 2021 - April 2022)