Dr. Evangelos Vlachos is a Tenured Researcher (Researcher C) at the Industrial Systems Institute (ISI) of ATHENA RC, where he leads a research group on Joint Communication, Control, and Sensing. His research interests include Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), UAV swarm coordination and U-Space resilience, and Scientific Machine Learning (deep unfolding), with a focus on bridging fundamental research with real-world validation in 6G networks and Cyber-Physical Systems.
He has authored over 47 publications — including articles in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE JSTSP, and Proceedings of the Royal Society A — accumulating more than 1,100 citations. His work on graph-based matrix completion received the World’s FIRST 10K Platinum Best Paper Award in 2017.
As Principal Investigator, he has secured over €850,000 in competitive and industry funding, including the Horizon Europe Excellence Hub EUSOME and the industry project SPLASH. He maintains active collaborations with Hellenic U-Space Industry, Quantum Neural Technologies, and Hellenic Drones, and has previously collaborated with Huawei Technologies France.
He is a member of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking, and serves as a reviewer for major IEEE journals. He currently teaches at the University of Patras and holds a visiting position at the University of Sussex, with previous postdoctoral and lecturing experience at the University of Edinburgh.
Ph.D. in Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, 2015
University of Patras
M.Sc. in Information Processing and Machine Learning, 2009
University of Patras
Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics, 2005
University of Patras