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Evangelia Fragkou, Ph.D

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About

Evangelia Fragkou is a post-doctoral researcher with University of Thessaly (UTH) from October 2025.

She received her diploma (Integrated Master's Degree) from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Thessaly in 2019 and her Ph.D in 2025, under the supervision of Assoc.Prof. Mr. Dimitrios Katsaros at the same Department. She has also earned a two-years grant from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) under the 3rd Call for HFRI Ph.D Fellowships to carry out her Ph.D studies.

She served as a teaching assistant in courses at University of Thessaly & International Hellenic University, she is a certified Adult Educator of Non-Formal Education and she is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE - TCG). Her main research interests lie in the area of tiny machine/deep learning and distributed systems.


Links

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Selected Publications

Book Chapters

[ BC1] Fragkou E., Katsaros D., "Non-Static TinyML for Ad hoc Networked Devices" in Non-Static TinyML for Ad hoc Networked Devices" in B. S. Chaudhari, S. N. Ghorpade, M. Z. R. Paskauskas (Eds.), TinyML for Edge Intelligence in IoT and LPWAN Networks,1st edition, ISBN:9780443222030, Elsevier, 2024, pp. 229-251. [ link ]


Articles in journals

[J4] Fragkou E., Chini E., Papadopoulou M., Papakostas D., Katsaros D., Dustdar S., "Distributed federated deep learning in clustered internet of things wireless networks with data similarity-based client participation", IEEE Internet Computing magazine, , vol.28 (6), 2024, pp. 53-61. [ link ]

[ J3] Fragkou E., Katsaros D., "A joint survey in decentralized federated learning and tinyML: A brief introduction to swarm learning", Future Internet (MDPI), Vol.16 (11), 2024. [ link ]

[J2] Fragkou E., Koultouki M., Katsaros D., "Model Reduction of Feed Forward Neural Networks for Resource-Constrained Devices", Applied Intelligence (Springer), vol.53 (11), 2022, pp. 14102-14127. [ link ]

[J1] Fragkou E., Papakostas D., Kasidakis T., Katsaros D., "Multilayer Backbones for Internet of Battlefield Things", Future Internet (MDPI), vol.14 (6), 2022. [ link ]


Articles in Conferences

[C7] Fragkou E., Katsaros D. , " Distributed Federated Learning in Wireless Ad hoc Networks,", Poster, 6th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing (GEC'24), Nicosia, Cyprus, June 13-14, 2024.
[open pdf] [link]

[C6] Fragkou E., Katsaros D., " Transfer Deep Learning for TinyML", Poster, 5th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing, (GEC'23), Athens, Greece, June 27, 2023.
[open pdf] [link]

[C5] Fragkou E., Lygnos V., Katsaros D.,2023, "Transfer Learning for Convolutional Neural Networks in Tiny Deep Learning Environments. In Proceedings of the 26th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics PCI2022. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 145-150. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3575879.3575984.
[ link ]

[C4] Fragkou E., Katsaros D., "Memory Reduction and Training Acceleration of Neural Networks for Tiny Machine Learning", Poster, 4th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing, (GEC'22), Hybrid Event, June 16-17, 2022.
[open pdf] [link]

[C3] Chouliaras A., Fragkou E., Katsaros D., Feed Forward Neural Network Sparsification with Dynamic Pruning, Proceedings of 25th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI2021), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, 12-17, November, 2021, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3503823.3503826.
[ link ]

[C2] Fragkou E., Katsaros D., Manolopoulos Y., "Sink Group Betweenness Centrality", Proceedings 25th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS), pp.5-11, Montreal, Canada, July 2021, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3472163.3472182. [ link ]

[C1]Papakostas D. , Kasidakis T. , Fragkou E. , Katsaros D. , "Backbones for Internet of Battlefield Things", Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), pp. 116-123, March 9-11, 20, DOI:https://doi.org/10.23919/WONS51326.2021.9415560. [ link ]


Education

  • 09/10/2025 - today
    Post-doctoral researcher,
    Research topic:"Design Considerations for Language Models in IoT-Edge Environments",
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE Dept.), University of Thessaly (UTH), Volos, Greece.

  • 09/10/2019 - 29/05/2025
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D),
    Dissertation:"Deep Learning and its Applications in wireless Big Data Networks Performance", advised by Assoc. Prof. Mr. Dimitrios Katsaros,
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE Dept.), University of Thessaly (UTH), Volos, Greece.

  • 16/10/2013 - 28/06/2019
    Diploma (Integrated Master's Degree - BEng+MEng - 300 ECTS) in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE Dept.), University of Thessaly (UTH), Volos, Greece.

    Languages

  • Greek - Native language.
  • 09/2010
    English - Certificate of Proficiency in English (ECPE) - Level (C2), University of Michigan.

    • Fellowship

  • 20/04/2022 - 20/03/2024
    Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI): 2-years-granted project for Ph.D studies - 3rd Call for HFRI PhD Fellowships (Fellowship Number: 5631). See project details, by clicking (here). or (here).

    Licenses

  • 27/02/2020 - Today
    License of Practicing Profession of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE - TCG) - Regional Section of Magnesia.

  • 28/04/2022 - Today
    Certificate of Educational Sufficiency - Certified Adult Educator of Non-Formal Education (EOPPEP). (Certification Code: EB 46338)

    • Academic services

  • Reviewer for: IEEE Access,

  • Reviewer for: Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS),

  • Reviewer for: Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics,

  • Publicity and Assistance: Workshop, entitled: 2nd International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Network Science (CAoNS), Turin, Italy - September 05 , 2022 - Hybrid conference,

  • Publicity and Assistance: Computational Aspects of Network Science (CAoNS) workshop in Tartu, Estonia - August 24, 2021 - Virtual Conference.

    • Teaching & Experience

  • 29/09/2025 - 06/02/2026:
    Visiting Lecturer
    Teaching undergraduate courses:
    • [1744] Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel System Programming - Elective Course, 7th Semester
    • [1949] Distributed Systems - Elective Course, 9th Semester
    Department of Information and Electronic Engineering, International University of Greece, Sindos, Thessaloniki, Greece.

  • 25/04/2023 - 31/05/2023:
    Educator - Teaching the basics of Informatics (60 hours)
    DIMITRA Education & Consulting SA , Larissa , Thessalia, Greece.

  • 01/11/2022 - 12/12/2022:
    Educator - Teaching the basics of Informatics (200 hours)
    DIMITRA Education & Consulting SA , Larissa , Thessalia, Greece.

  • 05/05/2022 - 30/09/2022 & 05/05/2021 - 30/09/2021:
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    -In course: ECE216 - Algorithms, supervising and correcting the lab assignments of students,
    Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos.

  • 16/11/2020 - 24/09/2021:
    Electrical and Computer Engineer
    -Section of Computerization and Informatics - IT support,
    Municipal Water Supply & Sewerage Company of Volos (DEYAMB).

  • 01/11/2019 - 20/12/2019:
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    -In course: "Y103 - Introduction to Programming", I helped students do their lab assignments in C language,
    Department of Digital Systems, University of Thessaly, Larissa.

  • 01/07/2017 - 31/08/2017:
    Internship - Software Engineer
    -Web page construction, using WordPress & php,
    University General Hospital of Larissa, Section of Computers & Informatics.

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