Photios (Photis) A. Stavrou received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in 2008. He was awarded his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from the Department of ECE, University of Cyprus (UCY) in June 2016. From November of 2016 to October 2017, he was a postdoc at the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University in Denmark . From November of 2017 to November of 2021, he was a Postdoc and Researcher in the Division of Information Sciences and Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden . From December of 2021 to August of 2022 he was a Senior Researcher and as of September of 2022 he is an Assistant Professor at Eurecom within the Communication Systems Department.
His main research targets the fundamental understanding of a radically new goal-oriented communication paradigm. In other words, his research aims to put into a meaningful mathematical framework the so called semantics of information, i.e., the significance and usefulness of messages with respect to the goal of data exchange and the overall application. He is also interested in understanding the fundamental limitations of networked control systems. The study of those systems is interdisciplinary because it combines tools from control and estimation theories, communication, optimization and numerical analysis.

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News

• Feb 2023 Accepted conference paper ``Goal-oriented single-letter codes for lossy joint source-channel coding'' in IEEE Workshop on Information Theory (ITW).
• Nov 2022 Guest Editorial Duties: I am serving as a Guest Editor at Entropy MDPI, along with Prof. N. Pappas, Prof. S. Sarıtaş and Prof. G. Cervia, for a special issue on the Foundations of goal-oriented semantic communication in intelligent networks.
• Oct 2022 Job Opportunities: I have two openings (Phd+Post-Doc) in my research group. For more detais check Openings.
• Sep 2022 New Position: Maître de conférences (Assistant Professor) Communication Systems Department at Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
• April 2022 IEEE Senior Member: Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member.
• April 2022 Accepted conference paper ``A rate distortion approach to goal-oriented communication'' in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
• Mar 2022 Accepted conference paper ``Privacy signaling games with binary alphabets'' in European Control Conference.
• Mar 2022 Accepted journal paper ``Optimizing low-complexity analog mappings for low-power sensors with energy scheduling capabilities'' in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
• Feb 2022 Accepted journal paper ``Generalizations of Talagrand inequality for Sinkhorn distance using entropy power inequality'' in MDPI Entropy (special issue on distance in information and statistical physics).

Activities

• Nov 2022Guest Editor: Entropy MDPI, Basel, CH.
• July 2022Talk: European Control Conference, London, UK.
• June 2022Talk: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Espoo, Finland.
• June 2022Session chairing: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Espoo, Finland.