Work experience
R&D | EMISIA SA | 15/05/2025 – 15/01/2026 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Junior DevOps Engineer | T-digital by Deutsche Telekom | 16/09/2024 – 15/03/2025 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Software engineer | Intracom Telecom S.A | 13/09/2021 – 31/07/2024 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Teaching the course “Edibility Control in Networks”, Postgraduate studies programme “Communication networks and systems security” | School of Informatics AUTh | 10/10/2025 – 23/01/2026 | Thessaloniki
Teaching the course “Edibility Control in Networks”, Postgraduate studies programme “Communication networks and systems security” | School of Informatics AUTh | 30/09/2024 – 31/12/2024 | Thessaloniki
Teaching the course “Edibility Control in Networks”, Postgraduate studies programme “Communication networks and systems security” | School of Informatics AUTh | 01/10/2023 – 01/01/2024 | Thessaloniki
Electrical engineer | Directorate of Technical Works Regional Sections | 01/11/2020 – 01/09/2021 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Teaching assistant to the courses “Broadband Networks” and “Telecommunication Networks” | Eidikos Logariasmos Kondilion Erevnas A.P.TH | 28/02/2013 – 30/11/2019 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Participating in the project “Online S3 Platform creation” | Eidikos Logariasmos Kondilion Erevnas A.P.TH | 30/11/2016 – 31/12/2016 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Participating in the project “Designing MAC protocols for hybrid optical-wireless networks” | Epitropi Erevnon A.T.E.I.TH | 01/12/2014 – 01/12/2015 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Participating in the project “Secure Memories and Applications Related Technologies” | Eidikos Logariasmos Kondilion Erevnas A.P.TH | 31/10/2012 – 31/05/2013 | Thessaloniki, Greece

Education & Training
Postdoc studies (part-time) | School of Informatics AUTh | 01/09/2021 – 01/09/2025 | Thessaloniki, Greece. Field of study: Random access protocols in 5G cellular IoT networks
PhD in Telecommunication Networks | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering AUTh | 01/10/2012 – 01/12/2019 | Thessaloniki, Greece PhD dissertation: “Connectivity assessment of mobile network nodes focusing on MAC techniques”
Diploma | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering AUTh | 01/01/2006 – 01/01/2012 | Thessaloniki, Greece. Diploma Thesis “Call admission control algorithm in OPNET”, Diploma degree 8.17

Publications
– M. V. Iloridou and F. -N. Pavlidou, “A Low Latency Data Transmission Scheme for Buffered IoT Devices in NB-IoT Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 10 December 2025
-M. V. Iloridou, P. Nicopolitidis, G. Papadimitriou and K. Kantelis, “Performance comparison of One-Step and Two-Step random access schemes in NB-IoT networks,” 2025 International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity, and Informatics (CCCI), Hangzhou, China, 2025
– M. Iloridou, P. Nicopolitidis and G. Papadimitriou, “Two-step Random Access with Collision Resolution Queueing for Cellular IoT networks,” 2023 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS), Genoa, Italy, 2023, pp. 01-05
– Maria Iloridou and Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou, “Adaptive Global Reclustering in MWSNs”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, January 2020
– C. Michaelides, M. Iloridou and F.-N.Pavlidou,”An Improved Mobility Aware Relaying Scheme for Body Area Networks “, IEEE Sensors Journal, April 2019
– Costas Michaelides, Maria Iloridou and Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou,”In Search of the Lost Nodes in BANs”, 24 – 27 September 2018, Cambridge, UK, IEEE ICNP
– Maria Iloridou and Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou, “Poly-parametric performance evaluation of mobility models for clustering Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks”, 25 – 29 June 2018, Limassol, Cyprus, IWCMC
– Antonios Sarigiannidis, Maria Iloridou, Petros Nicopolitidis, Georgios Papadimitriou, Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Malamati Louta and Vasileios Vitsas, “Architectures and Bandwidth Allocation Schemes for Hybrid Wireless-Optical Networks “, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol 17, Issue 1, pp. 427 – 468, Firstquarter 2015