John S.Vardakas was born in Alexandria, Greece, in 1979. He received his Dipl. - Eng. degree in Electrical and
Computer Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in 2004. Since 2006, he follows postgraduate studies in the Wire Communications Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece. He received hid PhD in 2012. His research interests include teletraffic engineering in
optical and wireless networks. He has already published 20 journal papers and over 30 papers in conferences and book. He has over 140 third-party citations. He has reviewed many conference and journal papers. He is a member of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).
