Dr. Malamati Louta
Associate Professor
Dr.-Ing. Malamati D. Louta received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the M.B.A. degree in 2004 from the National Technical University of Athens. She is Associate Professor and Head of Telecommunication Networks and Advanced Services Laboratory of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. Vice Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece (2016-2020) and member of the research committee of University of Western Macedonia (2017-2020). She was a researcher at the Telecommunications Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (1997-1999), senior engineer – member of the staff of Public Power Corporation (1999-2005), being head of the Information Systems Security subsector (2004-2005), Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia (2005-2008), and Lecturer with the Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens (2008-2010). Since 2010, as Assistant Professor (2010-2014) and Associate Professor (2014-onward), she is with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Western Macedonia (renamed to Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2019). Her research interests include telecommunication networks and advanced services engineering. She is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the above areas. She serves as associate editor (IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE, International Journal of Communication Systems -IJCS, Security and Privacy Journal- SPY, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies- ETT, WILEY), general chair, technical program committee chair and member, session organizer and a reviewer for a number of international conferences and journals. She serves as a series editor of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Communications Series of IEEE Communications Magazine (2020-onwards). She has contributed to several national and international research and development programs as a researcher, task leader, workpackage leader, principal investigator and coordinator. She is currently participating at 6 research & development programs as a principal investigator and/or coordinator of total budget ~1,5M€. She is a Senior Member of IEEE since 2014, member of the ACM and the Technical Chamber of Greece.
