Honours and Awards

• Fulbright Scholar Award, 1999
• Fulbright Awards Committee,06/27/2001
• IEEE LCN 2003, Best paper award
• Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2000): Best paper award
• IEEE Standards Committee, Voting member of IEEE 802 standards
• Greek Orthodox Diocese of Atlanta. St, Michael's Honors, November 1998
• Eliahu I. Jury Excellence in Research Award, College of Engineering, University of Miami, October 27, 1995.
• University of Miami Graduate School: Excellence in Mentorship Award, Spring 1997
• University of Miami Graduate School: Excellence in Mentorship Award, Spring 1996
• University of Waterloo: External Reader for Doctoral Dissertations, 1996
• Dean's Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentor, Graduate School, 1996 and 1997.
• NSF Travel grant to: Communication Networks and Neural Networks: The Challenge of Network Intelligence, ITC Mini-Conference, Duke University, March 4-7, 1996.
• Research Assistanship at CTR-Columbia University (1984-1989)
• Armstrong Foundation Memorial Prize for achieving the highest scholastic standing as a Master's candidate in the academic year 1984-1985
• Greek Government scholarship (Fall 1979)
• Workers Union: Scholarship for excellence in all years of studies (1979-1984)
• Deans List (1980-1984)

Professional and Honorary Organizations

• IEEE Communications Society (Member since 1989, Senior Member 1995)
• IEEE Communications Society, Computer Communications Technical Committee (Member since 1989)
• IEEE Standards Association, voting member for LAN, MAN and wireless standards
• INFORMS (ex ORSA), Special Interest Group on Telecommunications (Associate Member since 1989)
• ACM, Special Interest Group on Computer Communications, (Associate Member since 1994)
• Technical Chamber of Greece (Member since 1984)
• Panhellenic Union of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (Member since 1984)
• Greek O.R. Society (Member since 1990)
• HKN (Member since 1991)