Symeon Papavassiliou (S'92-M'96-SM'11) is currently a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). From 1995 to 1999, he was a senior technical staff member at AT&T Laboratories, New Jersey. In August 1999, he joined the ECE Dept at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, where he was an associate professor until 2004. He has an established record of publications in his field of expertise, with more than 350 technical journal and conference published papers, while he has received several scientific awards and distinctions. His main research interests lie in the areas of optimization and performance evaluation of mobile and distributed systems.