Raoul RAFTOPOULOS

Raoul Raftopoulos received his Ph.D. in Systems, Energy, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Catania in 2023, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. In 2023, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. . In 2022 he was awarded the Francesco Carassa Award for best presentation and publication. His research interests include machine learning and reinforcement learning for 5G/6G networks, O-RAN, FANET, underwater networks, Network Digital Twins, and autonomous networking. He has participated in several European research projects, including TRIANGLE, 5GINFIRE, and FLAME, and serves on the Technical Program Committees of several international conferences such as ICIN, CNSM, CCNC, Netsoft, NFV-SDN, AIoT and GreenNet.