Constantine Polychronopoulos

Vice President, 5G & Telco Cloud at Juniper Networks

Constantine Polychronopoulos is Vice President, 5G and Telco Cloud, at Juniper Networks. Before that he was Vice President and CTO of the TEC BU at VMware, leading the development of e2e Network Slicing and Orchestration and the company’s entrance into the 4G & 5G markets with Cloud NFVI. Prior to that he served as Vice President and CTO of Cloud Networking at Citrix, following the acquisition of Bytemobile, Inc. in 2012. As Founder and CTO of Bytemobile, he led the development of innovative products for web, streaming video and transport protocol optimization for mobile 3G and 4G/LTE networks that were deployed in 165 major wireless operators around the world.

Prior to that, Constantine was a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Director of the Center for Supercomputing R&D at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has served as chairman or on the PC of more than 50 international conferences. His work has resulted in more than 160 research papers in IEEE and ACM journals, conferences and more than 35 issued and pending patents. He also served on the governance committee of the University of Patras during 2012-2016, and among his recognitions are the NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, the 1998 Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, and the  Pascal Chair Professorship at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. In 2015 he was named among the 50 innovators in the 50-year history of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Illinois. He received his BSc from the University of Athens, his MS from Vanderbilt University and his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.