Dimitra E. Simeonidou FREng is a Professor of High Performance Networks at the University of Bristol.
[3][5] In 2012 Simeonidou was appointed a Professor at the University of Bristol, where she Directs the Smart Internet Lab and High-Performance Networks group.
[7] She is responsible for the city of Bristol's 5G urban pilots and leads experiments on the UK's 5G test network.
[10] Simeonidou founded two University spin-off companies, Ilotron, which was acquired by Altamar in 2001, and Zeetta Networks.
[13] Working with Zeetta, the BBC and Cambridge Communication Systems, Simeonidou demonstrated a 5G-enabled tourism catalyst project at the 2019 Digital Transformation World conference in Nice.
[15] The application used 5G network slicing, low latency and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) to provide a resilient service.