News | Dr. Evangelos Vlachos

Leading a Special Session at IEEE ICASSP 2027

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I am leading the organisation of a special session at IEEE ICASSP 2027, the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, which takes place in Toronto, Canada, on 16–21 May 2027.

Special session: Signal Processing for Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Control in Autonomous Aerial Networks

Drones and other autonomous aerial platforms have to sense their surroundings, keep reliable radio links and stay under safe control, often with the same hardware and under tight power and latency limits. The session brings together signal processing work that treats these three functions jointly rather than one at a time.

The session is co-organised with Kostas Berberidis (University of Patras), George C. Alexandropoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Panayiotis Kolios (KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, University of Cyprus).

More information: ICASSP 2027

NextGCom 2026 in Kefalonia: Session Chair and Paper Presentation

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I attended the 2026 Next Generation Communications conference (NextGCom 2026), held on 28-30 September 2026 at the Ionian University in Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece.

On 29 September I chaired Special Session 3: Integrated Sensing and AI-Driven Communication in 6G Perceptive Mobile Networks, which brought together four papers on sensing-aided and AI-driven physical-layer design for 6G. In the same session I presented our paper:

Semantically-Informed Predictive Control for Autonomous UAV Connectivity in Urban Environments

Evangelos Vlachos, Dimitrios Tsourounis, and Aryan Kaushik

The work fuses radar sensing with visual semantic classification into an effective capacity metric, so that a UAV path planner avoids both hard blockers and unreliable multipath zones in mmWave urban links.

Title slide, NextGCom 2026

Sensing-assisted communication for UAV links

Our group also presented Geometry-Aware Regularization for Deep-Unfolded MIMO-OTFS Detection (Nikolaos Ntavanelos and Evangelos Vlachos) in the technical sessions.

This work is part of the EUSOME project, funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe Grant Agreement 101187121.

Awarded a University of Jyväskylä Visiting Fellowship for 2027

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I am happy to share that I have been awarded a Visiting Fellowship by the University of Jyväskylä (JYU), Finland, for a one-month research visit during 2027.

The visit will be hosted by Prof. Markus Miettinen, Professor of Cybersecurity at JYU. We will work on cybersecurity for UAV systems, starting with the trustworthiness of drone Remote ID, combining my work on UAV sensing and control with his group’s expertise in security for AI and networked systems.

New Paper: Consistency-Gated Cooperative Localization for UAV Swarms under Intermittent GPS

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

New paper indexed on Google Scholar: “Consistency-Gated Cooperative Localization for UAV Swarms under Intermittent GPS” (2026).

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New Paper: Hardware-Aware Control Barrier Functions for Counter-UAS Interceptors with Directed Energy Payloads

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

New paper indexed on Google Scholar: “Hardware-Aware Control Barrier Functions for Counter-UAS Interceptors with Directed Energy Payloads” (2026).

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New Paper: Intelligent UAV Path Planning for Ergodic Rate Maximization of MIMO Multipath Channels

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

New paper indexed on Google Scholar: “Intelligent UAV Path Planning for Ergodic Rate Maximization of MIMO Multipath Channels” (2025).

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Reached 1300+ Citations on Google Scholar

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The work of Dr. Evangelos Vlachos has now been cited over 1300 times according to Google Scholar (current count: 1318).

Submitted: AERIAL-EDGE — Twinning for Aerial Radio Measurement and Edge Data Intelligence

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We submitted AERIAL-EDGE to the Horizon Europe Twinning call (HORIZON-WIDERA-2026-02) today, with ATHENA RC as coordinator.

Full title: AERIAL-EDGE — Twinning for Aerial Radio Measurement and Edge Data Intelligence for Mediterranean Drone Corridors

AERIAL-EDGE addresses a critical gap for U-Space deployment: the lack of calibrated, open aerial channel datasets and the edge data infrastructure to turn raw radio measurements into actionable drone corridor intelligence. The project will establish a permanent AERIAL Lab at ATHENA RC through structured knowledge transfer from advanced European partners.

Consortium (€1,500,000 total, 36 months):

ATHENA RC, Greece (Coordinator)
TU Ilmenau, Germany
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
University of Sussex, UK
KIOS Research and Innovation Centre, University of Cyprus

This work builds on ATHENA RC’s aerial communications experience in the EUSOME project.

Workshop Proposal Submitted to EuCNC & 6G Summit 2026

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

As part of the WP7 Dissemination activities of the EUSOME project, we submitted a proposal to host a dedicated Half-Day Workshop at the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2026 (Malaga, Spain, June 2–5, 2026).

Workshop Title: Integrated Sensing and Communications for the 6G Sky: Bridging Technology and Regulation in U-Space

The workshop is co-organized with partners from the University of Cyprus (KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence) and will feature contributions from DCAC and HCAA on the regulatory side.

Programme structure:

Session 1 — Technical: Presentations on 6G non-terrestrial communications, ISAC millimeter-wave communications, and joint control and communications. Led by ATHENA RC and UCY.
Session 2 — Regulatory: Panel discussion on U-Space regulation and aviation integration. Led by DCAC and HCAA.

This workshop will position the EUSOME Excellence Hub as a strategic bridge between the European 6G research community and aviation regulation bodies.

This work is supported by the EU Horizon Europe project EUSOME (Grant Agreement No. 101187121).