Dr. Dimitrios Milioris is a research associate and lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his Ph.D. from École Polytechnique Paris (2015, honors) while a scholar at Columbia University, New York, USA, as an Alliance Program awardee (2013 – 2014). He received his double M.Sc. degree (2011, first in class, honors) in computer science & applied mathematics from Paris XI University and the École Polytechnique, and his B.Sc. degree (2009, honors) in computer science from the University of Crete, Greece. Prior to joining MIT, he was a researcher at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent in Paris, France, and a member of the Mathematics of Dynamic & Complex Networks Department. Prior to joining Bell Labs, he served as a research assistant at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FO.R.T.H.), and as a research engineer with the Hipercom Team at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic Control (I.N.R.I.A.), followed by a compulsory military service in Telecommunications Division.