Virgilios Passas is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece and affiliated with the Network Implementation Testbed Laboratory (NITLab), Volos, Greece. He received the Diploma, the M.Sc and the Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, in 2012, 2014, and 2021 respectively. His research interests involve the experimentation with wireless technologies (WiFi, LTE, 5G-NR), the real testbed implementations of resource allocation algorithms in HetNets and the experimentation of Multi-Access Edge Computing solutions for next generation networks. His current research efforts focus on 5G & beyond communication technologies, its orchestration and the optimization utilizing ML/AI techniques.