I am a Ph.D student at University of California, Irvine and I work with professor Athina Markopoulou. I received my B.Sc from the department of Informatics at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and shortly after my graduation I became a member of Mobile Multimedia Laboratory, where I worked as a research assistant on Clean Slate Publish/Subscribe Architectures. At UCI, my research interests expanded to wireless and mobile networks. More specifically I have been working on the implementation of cooperative schemes and Network Coding on Smartphones. Currently, I'm visiting Telefonica I+D in Barcelona, Spain.

• Ride-Sharing
• Location aware OSNs
• Sharing Economy
• Android Programming
• Cooperative Mobile Devices
• Implementation of Network Coding in Smarphones

• M.Sc from UC Irvine (Networked Systems)
• Intern at Telefonica I+D
• Research Assistant at Mobile Multimedia Laboratory
• B.Sc from Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)

For more details:

• CV
• My profile on Google scholar

• Quantifying the Potential of Ride-Sharing using Call Description Records
  Blerim Cici, Athina Markopoulou, Enrique Frías-Martínez, Nikolaos Laoutaris
  HotMobile 2013.
  pdf, slides
• MicroCast: Cooperative Video Streaming on Smartphones
  L. Keller, A. Le, B. Cici, H. Seferoglu, C. Fragouli, A. Markopoulou
  MobiSys 2012, Low Wood Bay, Lake District, United Kingdom, Jun 25-29, 2012.
  pdf, slides
• Cooperative Video Streaming on Smartphones
  H.Seferoglu, L.Keller, B.Cici, A.Le, A. Markopoulou
  Allerton Conference 2011 (invited paper), Sept. 2011, Monticello, IL.
  pdf, slides
• Design and Evaluation of a Socket Emulator for Publish/Subscribe Networks
  George Xylomenos, Blerim Cici
  Future Internet Symposium (FIS), Berlin 2010
  pdf, slides

• A tale of 2 continents and 4 cities about the influence of demographics and social constraints on ride-sharing
  Blerim Cici, Enrique Frías-Martínez, Nikolaos Laoutaris
  arXive.org version
  also, the paper has been shortlisted at MIT Technology Review

• Online Social Networks meet Smartphones
  B. Cici, F. Malandrino, M. Gjoka, M. Kurant, A. Markopoulou,
  poster at the Calit2 anniversary, UC Irvine, Fall 2010
  poster

• Socket Emulation over a Publish/Subscribe Network Architecture
  G. Xylomenos and B. Cici,
  Future Network and Mobile Summit 2010, Florence, Italy, June 2010 (poster)
  poster

• A Mobile Application Showcase Event (AMASE) 2012 : First place in the general category (with Anh Le)
• NSDI 2012 : Student travel grant award
• UCI: Networked Systems Fellowship 2010-2012

• bcici AT uci DOT edu