
Ioannis Protogeros
I am a second-year Ph.D. student, exploring how LLMs and agentic systems can help make network operations less painful. My goal is to reconcile the advantages of learning-based systems (that are maximally flexible, but lack guarantees) with those of formal methods (that provide strong guarantees, but are rigid); all towards extending the limits of network verification and synthesis.
I received my Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2024, my Diploma Thesis focusing on the optimization of distributed learning systems and federated learning.
Research Areas
Talks
Benchmarking LLM Systems on Networking Operations (SIGCOMM '25 SRC Final)
Publications
AIWILD @ ICML '26
*equal contribution
arXiv Preprint
SIGCOMM '25 (Poster)
Finalist for the ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition (SRC)
Supervised Theses
Fine-tuning LLMs for Network Data Understanding
(MA)
Student: Rufat Asadli
Supervisors: Benjamin Hoffman, Ioannis Protogeros, and Laurent Vanbever
Student: Rufat Asadli
Supervisors: Benjamin Hoffman, Ioannis Protogeros, and Laurent Vanbever