Stratis Ioannidis
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office
- 414 ISEC
- 617.373.6358
Research Focus
Distributed systems, networking, machine learning, big data, and privacy
Education
- PhD (2009), University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science
- MS (2004), University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science
Honors & Awards
- 2025 Faculty Research Team Award – iSUPER Impact Engine
- 2025 Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award
- 2021 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow
- Fellowship, Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Research Overview
Distributed systems, networking, machine learning, big data, and privacy
Selected Research Projects
- NSF AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (AI-EDGE)
- Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- CNS Core: Medium: Data-Centric Networks for Distributed Learning
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- CAREER: Leveraging Sparsity in Massively Distributed Optimization
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Research Centers and Institutes
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Zifeng Wang, Zheng Zhan, Yifan Gong, Yucai Shao, Stratis Ioannidis, Yanzhi Wang, and Jennifer Dy, DualHSIC: HSIC-Bottleneck and Alignment for Continual Learning, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023.
- Tong Jian, Debashri Roy, Batool Salehi, Nasim Soltani, Kaushik Chowdhury, and Stratis Ioannidis, Communication-Aware DNN Pruning, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2023.
- Zifeng Wang, Zheng Zhan, Yifan Gong, Geng Yuan, Wei Niu, Tong Jian, Bin Ren, Stratis Ioannidis, Yanzhi Wang, and Jennifer Dy, SparCL: Sparse Continual Learning on the Edge, Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.
- Yuanyuan Li , Tareq Si Salem , Giovanni Neglia, and Stratis Ioannidis, Online Caching Networks with Adversarial Guarantees, ACM International Conference on Measurements and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2022.
- Yuanyuan Li, Yuezhou Liu, Lili Su, Edmund Yeh, and Stratis Ioannidis, Experimental Design Networks: A Paradigm for Serving Heterogeneous Learners under Networking Constraints, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2023.
- İlkay Yıldız, Jennifer Dy, Deniz Erdoğmuş, Susan Ostmo, J. Peter Campbell, Michael F. Chiang, and Stratis Ioannidis, Spectral Ranking Regression, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2022.
Jan 31, 2025
2024 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those who published a paper in 2024 or later.

Jan 30, 2025
Faculty and Staff Awards 2025
Faculty and staff were recognized at the 27th Annual College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards for their exceptional service and dedication in support of students, the COE community, and the university during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Dec 07, 2023
2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.

Aug 30, 2023
Researchers Win Best Paper Award for Content Distribution Framework
A team of researchers from Northeastern University, MIT, and EURECOM won the best paper award at the 21st International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad-hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2023) for their paper on “Joint Optimization of Storage and Transmission via Coding Traffic Flows for Content Distribution.”

Aug 21, 2023
ECE PhD Student Places Second at SIGMETRICS 2023
Yuanyuan Li, PhD’23, computer engineering, supervised by ECE Professor Stratis Ioannidis, won second place at the student research competition for her work on “Distributed Experimental Design Networks” at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2023 conference.

Sep 26, 2022
Impact Engines Spur Multidisciplinary Research Innovation To Solve Global Challenges
Northeastern University has selected its first cohort of Impact Engines to ignite measurable change in problem-solving, three of the five of which are led by engineering faculty.

Jun 09, 2022
Improving Computer Networks with Distributed Cached Content
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and Professor Edmund Yeh were awarded a patent for designing a “Distributing cached content in a network.” Abstract Source: USPTO The invention relates to a […]

Feb 25, 2022
Handling Both Routing and Caching Effectively
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and Professor Edmund Yeh were awarded a patent for “Joint routing and caching method for content delivery with optimality guarantees for arbitrary networks.”

Jul 29, 2021
Northeastern Part of New NSF Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Northeastern is part of a team led by the Ohio State University that was awarded $20 million over five years for the NSF AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (AI-EDGE). Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), is the Northeastern lead, with co-PIs ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia and ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis responsible for $1.8 million of the award.

Jul 13, 2021
Pioneering a Data-Centric Approach to Distributed Machine Learning
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and ECE Professor Edmund Yeh, in collaboration with ECE Professor Carlee Joe-Wong from Carnegie Mellon University, have been awarded a $1M grant from the NSF to pioneer a data-centric approach to distributed machine learning.