Welcome! Spyridon Mastorakis joins the faculty

Spyridon Mastorakis

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is pleased to introduce Spyridon Mastorakis, who joins the faculty as assistant professor.

“We are thrilled to welcome Professor Mastorakis to computer science and engineering at Notre Dame,” said Jane Cleland-Huang, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Engineering and department chair.

“He brings extensive expertise in computer networks and systems, as well as areas of edge computing and the Internet of Things. His expertise and projects open new coursework and research opportunities for our graduate and undergraduate students to engage in a rapidly expanding field of computing.”

Mastorakis comes to Notre Dame from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he served as assistant professor of computer science. He was director of the Ph.D. program in Information Technology, director of the Network Systems Research Laboratory, and a co-director of the Robotics, Networking, and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He was also a research affiliate of the Center for Research in Human Movement Variability at the University of Nebraska.

His research interests include computer networks, networked systems, edge computing, and security.  He is associate editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal and is the recipient of the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) award.

He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2019.

— Karla Cruise, Notre Dame College of Engineering