Honor and Awards

Honors, Awards, & Scholarships

• Research and Creative Works Leader Award, UNM, 2023 -- This is an award given each year to one or more faculty members who have been recently promoted in any rank within the whole University of New Mexico in recognition of their extraordinary research accomplishments.

• Steering Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2023-2025.

• Distinguished Member of the INFOCOM 2023 Technical Program Committee.

• Excellent Reviewer Award by IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Communications Society, 2022.

• Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE Communications Letters, 2021, 2022.

• Excellent Reviewer Award from the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Communications Society, 2022. 

• Dean's Excellence Award, School of Engineering, UNM, 2021.

• IEEE Albuquerque Section's 2021 Outstanding Engineering Educator award.

• Best Paper Award in the IEEE Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services - IEEE/ACM BRAINS 2020, for the paper: Y. Cai, G. Fragkos, E.E. Tsiropoulou, and A. Veneris, "A Truth-Inducing Sybil Resistant Decentralized Blockchain Oracle," in IEEE BRAINS, 2020.

• Early Career Award from the IEEE Communications Society Internet Technical Committee for outstanding contribution in the area of Internet research and technology development," 2020.

• Best Paper Award in the IEEE INFOCOM 2019 awarded by the IEEE Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee for the paper: P. Vamvakas, E.E. Tsiropoulou, and S. Papavassiliou, "Dynamic Spectrum Management in 5G Wireless Networks: A Real-Life Modeling Approach," IEEE INFOCOM 2019, pp. 2134-2142, 2019. 2020.

• Best Paper Award in the IEEE 12th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference for the paper: P. Promponas, P.A. Apostolopoulos, E.E. Tsiropoulou, and S. Papavassiliou, "Redesigning Resource Management in Wireless Networks based on Games in Satisfaction Form," Sept. 2019.

• NSF CRII Award: NeTS: Real-life modeling for EFficient RESource management in Heterogeneous multi-user systems - REFRESH, July 2019 (PI) .

• 2018-2019 Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, School of Engineering, University of New Mexico.

• N²Women Chair organizing the N²Women workshop at the 20th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) 2019, Washington DC, USA.

• N²Women: Rising Stars in Networking and Communications Award, 2017.

• Susan Frazier Postdoctoral Researcher Travel Award by Institute for Systems Research, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, May 2017.

• Best Paper Award in the 7th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (LNCS) Sprigner (ADHOCNETS 2015) for the paper: E.E. Tsiropoulou, I. Ziras and S. Papavassiliou, "Service Differentiation and Resource Allocation in SC-FDMA Wireless Networks through User-Centric Distributed Non-Cooperative Multilateral Bargainings," September 2015.

• Best Paper Award in the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) for the paper: E.E. Tsiropoulou, P. Vamvakas, and S. Papavassiliou, "Energy Efficient Uplink Joint Resource Allocation Non-cooperative Game with Pricing," April 2012.

• Student Conference Travel Grant, (IWCMC 2009), Organization: National Technical University of Athens, June 2009.

• Annual Award from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation, Awarded to the top student of the dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2007-2008.