Kostas Katsaros

Senior 5G Technologist at Digital Catapult

Speaker

Kostas Katsaros is a Senior 5G Technologist at Digital Catapult. Using the expertise developed in part during his time as a research fellow at the University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre, he provides oversight and guidance for specific 5G system architecture and subsystem implementations. A specialist in new architectures that use virtualization and edge computing, Kostas has extensive experience of vehicular/mobile networks and has led research into the use of mobile edge computing to assist autonomous driving. He has also investigated networking and transport protocols and is interested in how these networks are used to improve society and the novel business opportunities that arise from them.

Kostas has participated in several European and national projects and has co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed technical articles and conference papers. He also holds two patents on hybrid vehicular networking architectures.

Specialties: 5G, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV), Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), Routing protocols, Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANET), Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), NS-3