Ioannis Panitsas

Ioannis Panitsas

PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Yale University

About me

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Yale University and a member of the SmartNets research group at the Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS). I began my PhD in Fall 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Leandros Tassiulas. My research lies broadly at the intersection of wireless communications, machine learning, and network security.

Research Interests

AI for Networked Systems:
Design of machine learning and reinforcement learning algorithms for optimizing control, resource allocation, and performance in next-generation networks.

Wireless Network Security:
Development of robust, data-driven techniques for detecting and mitigating adversarial attacks in wireless networks.

System Implementation and Experimental Evaluation:
Prototype development and deployment of AI-native network algorithms on real-world wireless testbeds, with emphasis on scalability, efficiency, and reproducibility.

News

  • May 2025: Obtained the Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Yale University.

  • May 2025: Participated in the CyberPOWDER Workshop at the University of Utah and presented my research to the POWDER team.

  • February 2025: Our paper “D2Q Synchronizer: Distributed SDN Synchronization for Time-Sensitive Applications” was accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN) 2025, May 26–29, Barcelona, Spain.

  • January 2025: Our paper “JamShield: A Machine Learning Detection System for Over-the-Air Jamming Attacks” was accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2025, June 8–12, Montreal, Canada.

  • August 2024: Attended the NSF OAIC Workshop at Mississippi State University and presented my research.

  • June 2024: Participated in the Colosseum Young Gladiators Workshop at Northeastern University and presented my research to the Colosseum team.

  • January 2024: Obtained the Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Yale University.

  • January 2023: Our paper “Cyber-Twin: Digital Twin-Boosted Autonomous Attack Detection for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks” was accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2024, June 9–13, Denver, CO, USA.