Education
- 1997, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
- Doctoral Degree, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Biography
Konstantinos Psounis is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. Prior to this he was an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor at the same university. He graduated first in his class from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and completed an M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, California, as a Stanford graduate fellow.
Konstantinos works on performance analysis, algorithm design, and system design and implementation for efficient, AI-enabled and privacy-preserving networked, distributed systems, including the Internet and the web, data centers and cloud systems, wireless systems, virtual reality systems, and autonomous robotic/vehicle/drone systems. He also worls on multimodal large language models, robust agentic systems, and machine learning benchmarking with applications to distributed systems. He is the author of more than 120 research papers on these topics which have received more than 15000 citations. He has received faculty awards and funding from numerous governmental agencies and high-tech industry leaders. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Member.
Research Summary
Research interests: Networked Distributed Systems (internet and the web, data centers and cloud systems, wireless systems, augmented and virtual reality systems), Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (multimodal foundational models, agentic systems, robustness), Autonomous Systems (vehicles, robots, drones).
Awards
- 2025 USC-Amazon Research Center Semantically grounded vision encoders and benchmarks for MLLMs
- 2023 USC-Amazon Research Center Private labelling and learning for voice assistants with cameras
- 2022 USC-Amazon Research Center Federated learning with secure aggregation: Accessing and improving its privacy
- 2021 CA-Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Wildfire Detection and Fighting Using a Network of Collaborative Drones
- 2020 NSF SaTC Frontier multi-Insitutional grant on Protecting Personal Data Flow on the Internet.
- 2020 NSF NeTS Network-Enabled Cooperative Perception for Future Autonomous Vehicles.
- 2019 ACM Distinguished Member
- 2019 Cisco Systems Virtual and augmented reality over next generation WiFi.
- 2019 NSF NeTS Privacy-Preserving Mobile Crowdsourcing.
- 2017 IEEE Fellow
- 2016 Adant Technologies Using reconfigurable antenna systems with WiFi communication devices.
- 2016 Huawei Technologies Addressing wireless bandwidth demand via asynchronously coordinated multi-cell deployments.
- 2016 IEEE Distinguished Member of IEEE Infocom TPC Award
- 2016 Cisco Systems Data-driven formal optimization of data centers
- 2016 NSF NeTS Spectrum Sharing Systems for Wireless Networks: Performance and Privacy Challenges.
- 2015 Adant Technologies Asynchronous coordination of WiFi transmitters equipped with smart antennas for enhanced spectral efficiency.
- 2014 Cisco Systems Rateless encoded UDP for error-resilient wireless links.
- 2014 NSF EARS Future Wireless Broadband Access: Cross-Optimizing Hardware, Physical and Network Layers.
- 2014 ACM Notable Article in Computing - Best of 2013
- 2013 VSoE MEPC Business Plan Competition - 2nd place
- 2011 Ming Hsieh Institute MHI Grant on Large scale software radio testbed.
- 2011 DoCoMo Labs Research Grant
- 2011 Cisco Systems Efficient airtime allocation in wireless networks.
- 2009 METRANS Transportation Center METRANS transportation center Grant/Award
- 2009 ACM Senior Member Award
- 2009 Army Research Laboratory ARL Grant on Quality of Information-Aware Networks for Tactical Applications.
- 2008 NSF NSF REU site Grant/Award
- 2008 Cisco Systems Cisco Systems Grant and Best Presentation Award
- 2008 NSF NSF NeTS Grant/Award
- 2008 Cisco Systems Cisco Systems Grant/Award
- 2008 IEEE IEEE Senior Member Award
- 2007 METRANS Transportation Center METRANS research grant/award
- 2005 Zumberge Foundation Zumberge award
- 2005 National Science Foundation NSF NeTS grant/award
- 2004 Viterbi School of Engineering Charles Lee Powel Assistant Professor Scholarship Award
- 1997 National Technical University of Athens Best-student National Technical University of Athens award
- 1997 Stanford University Illeana and Eric Benhamou Stanford Graduate Fellowship
- 1992 Technical Institution of Greece (TEE) award
- 1992 Hellenic National Foundation of Scholarships (IKY) award
