IMDEA Networks
Dr. Nikolaos LAOUTARIS
Research Professor
- PhD: Computer Science - University of Athens. Athens, Greece
- Former position: Senior Researcher. Telefónica. Barcelona. Spain & Director of Data Science. Eurecat. Barcelona. Spain
- Joining date: December 2018
- Website: http://laoutaris.info/
- Email: nikolaos.laoutarisnetworks.imdea.org
- Phone: +34 91 481 6917
Biography
Nikolaos Laoutaris is a research professor at IMDEA Networks Institute in Madrid, and director of its Data Transparency Group (DTG). Prior to that he was director of data science at Eurecat and chief scientist of the Data Transparency Lab which he co-founded in 2014 during his 10 year tenure as a researcher in Telefonica. Before that, Nikolaos was a postdoc fellow at Harvard University, a Marie Curie postdoc fellow at Boston University, and a PhD student in computer science at the University of Athens. His main research interests include privacy, transparency, data protection, economics of networks and information, intelligent transportation, distributed systems, protocols, and network measurements.
Research projects
MLEDGE
Main researcher
Cloud and Edge Machine Learning
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Main researcher
The Open Digital Identity Observatory
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Main researcher
Data Watermarking: The missing link to on-/off-chain implementation of distributed data marketplaces
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Data Process & Technological Bricks for expanding digital value creation in European Data Spaces
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A platform for Assessing and Bridging Generative AI and Human Skills in Secondary Education
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Main researcher
Building the next generation personal data platforms
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Publications
Index-only Backdoor Vetting for Secure Federated PEFT of Large Language Models
Javad Dogani, Devriş İşler, Nikolaos Laoutaris
International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea. July 2026
FLEAT: Energy-Accuracy Trade-off in Federated Learning over Heterogeneous Edge Devices
Javad Dogani, Reza Namvar, Masoumeh Khodarahmi, Farshad Khunjush, Nikolaos Laoutaris
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 10.1109/TMC.2026.3710334. IEEE. ISSN: 1536-1233. July 2026
Quantifying the Robustness of Smart Street Parking Assignment to Sensor Noise
Behafarid Hemmatpour, Javad Dogani, Nikolaos Laoutaris
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management. Athens, Greece. July 2026
Privacy-preserving Chunk Scheduling in a BitTorrent Implementation of Federated Learning
Naicheng Li, Javad Dogani, Rui Wang, Kaitai Liang, Nikolaos Laoutaris
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Seoul, South Korea. June 2026
SemanticDFL: Similarity-Aware Pull-based Personalized Decentralized Federated Learning
Javad Dogani, Mostafa Khastkhodaei, Farshad Khunjush, Nikolaos Laoutaris
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.. June 2026