Dr. Evangelos Vlachos

Dr. Evangelos Vlachos

Tenure-track Researcher

Industrial Systems Institute (ISI)

ATHENA RC

Biography

Evangelos Vlachos is a Tenured Researcher at ISI, ATHENA RC, where he is building the Joint Communication, Control & Sensing research group. His research spans ISAC, UAV swarms, and deep unfolding for 6G systems; his award-winning work — including a 2017 Best Paper Award — covers 47+ publications, 1,100+ citations, and €850k+ in secured funding.

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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

News

News May 2026
Paper Accepted at EUSIPCO 2026 publication research
Our paper on consistency-gated cooperative localization for UAV swarms under intermittent GPS has been accepted at EUSIPCO 2026 in Bruges.
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 …

Academic Contributions

PhD Supervision

Primary Supervisor N. Ntavanelos · ML-driven resource management for 6G networks

Advisory Committee P. Theodoropoulos · wireless signal processing

Teaching

University of Patras · 2023–present MSc · Digital Telecommunications (EIP207) · Mobile Communication Systems

University of Sussex · 2022–present Visiting Researcher · Signal processing & communications

Past Positions

Lecturer · University of Edinburgh · 2019 Advanced Coding Techniques (LDPC, turbo codes)

Postdoctoral Researcher · 2015–2022 University of Edinburgh · University of Patras

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