47+ Publications
1,100+ Citations
17 H-Index
3 Active EU Projects

News

News Apr 2026
Paper Accepted at ICUAS 2026 publication research
Our paper on hardware-aware SE(3) Control Barrier Functions for counter-UAS interception with directed energy payloads has been accepted at ICUAS …
News Apr 2026
We submitted AERIAL-EDGE, a Horizon Europe Twinning proposal coordinated by ATHENA RC, targeting permanent aerial radio measurement and edge data …
News Apr 2026
We submitted a paper on geometry-aware deep-unfolded MIMO-OTFS detection to IEEE WCL.

Teaching & Supervision

Academic contributions

University of Patras (2023–present)

Lecturer, Dept. of Physics — MSc Electronics & Information Processing

Graduate Supervision

Principal Supervisor — N. Ntavanelos, PhD (ML for 6G resource management) Advisory Committee — P. Theodoropoulos, PhD

University of Edinburgh (2019)

Lecturer, School of Engineering

  • Advanced Coding Techniques (turbo codes, LDPC, capacity-approaching design)

Dr. Evangelos Vlachos

Dr. Evangelos Vlachos

Tenure-track Researcher (Researcher C)

Biography

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.

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Interests
  • Joint Communication, Control, and Sensing
  • Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) & 6G
  • UAV Swarms & U-Space Resilience
  • Scientific Machine Learning (Deep Unfolding)
Education
  • 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

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