Rate My Professor Dimitrios Pezaros

Professor Dimitrios Pezaros is a full Professor of Computer Networks in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, holding the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Digital Resilience for Critical National Infrastructure from 2023 to 2028. He earned his BSc (Hons.) and PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University, where he was also a doctoral fellow of Agilent Technologies Inc. between 2000 and 2004. Pezaros joined Glasgow in 2009 as a lecturer and advanced through the ranks to full professor. Prior to that, he served in postdoctoral and senior research associate roles at Lancaster University. He founded and directs the Networked Systems Research Laboratory (netlab) since 2015, leads the Glasgow Cyberdefence Laboratory since 2020, and was Head of the Glasgow Systems Section from 2019 to 2023. Additionally, he held a visiting professorship at the University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, during 2018-2019.

Pezaros's research specializations encompass computer communications, network and service management, digital resilience of heterogeneous networked infrastructures, network programmability and function virtualisation especially in resource-constrained and industrial environments, cybersecurity for industrial control systems, software-defined networking, network function virtualisation, cloud and edge computing, data centre networking, closed-loop adaptive resource provisioning, network traffic analysis and modelling, data-driven anomaly detection, and quality of service. He is a chartered engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society, Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Higher Education Academy, as well as Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM. Notable honors include Best Paper Awards at IFIP International Internet of Things Conference (2024), Wireless Days Conference runner-up (2019), IEEE CCNC runner-up (2017), IEEE HPSR (2015), IEEE CloudNet (2014), and IWAN (2004). Key publications include "A survey on industrial control system digital forensics: challenges, advances and future directions" (IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2023), "PLCPrint: fingerprinting memory attacks in programmable logic controllers" (IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023), and "On the importance of resilience engineering for networked systems in a changing world" (IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023).