ANGELOS STAVROU - Curriculum Vitae
POSITIONS HELD
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August 2020 – Present
Professor, Innovation Campus & Bradley Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA
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November 2022 – Present
Founder & CEO, Impedyme Inc., Arlington, VA
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March 2022 – Present
Founder & Chairman of the Board, Quokka Inc, Arlington, VA
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March 2011 – Present
Founder & CEO, A2 Labs LLC (formerly Kryptowire LLC, 2011 - 2024), Arlington,
VA
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August 2021 – Present
Entrepreneurship Lead, Innovation Campus, Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA
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August 2017 – August 2020
Professor, Computer Science Department, George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA
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April 2014 – August 2020
Director, Center for Assurance Research and Engineering
(CARE), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
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March 2014 – May 2017
Academic Director, M.S. in Management of Secure
Information Systems Program, School of Management, George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA
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May 2012 – August 2017
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA
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May 2013 – August 2015
Academic
Director, M.S. in Information Security and Assurance, Computer Science
Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
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January 2012 – August 2013
Associate
Director, Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA
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September 2011 – August 2020
Associate Researcher, National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST), Computer
Security Division, Gaithersburg, MD
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August 2007 – May 2012
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, George Mason
University, Fairfax, VA
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May 2006 – August 2006
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
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August 2004 – December 2004
Software Engineer Intern, Google Inc., Mountain view, CA
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September 2001 – August 2007
Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, Columbia University,
New York, NY
EDUCATION
- Columbia
University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, New
York, NY.
Ph.D. in Computer Science (with Distinction) (August 2007)
Thesis:
"An Overlay Architecture for End-to-End Service Availability".
Advisor: Angelos D. Keromytis.
- Columbia
University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, New
York, NY.
M.Phil. Degree in Computer Science (January
2007)
M.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering with concentration in Multimedia Networking
(Peer to Peer Networks). (December 2002).
- National
University of Athens, Athens Greece /Carleton University ON, Canada.
M.Sc. Degree in Algorithms, Computability and Logic. (June 2001)
Master's Thesis: "A new distributed algorithm for
routing in satellite constellation networks" Advisor: Prof. E. Kranakis.
- University of
Patras, Electrical Engineering Department, Patras Greece.
Certificate of Engineering for the completion of the last two years of
coursework in Electrical Engineering (February
1999).
- University of
Patras, Physics Department, Patras, Greece.
B.Sc (Honors) in Physics, (July 1997) Thesis: "Stream
Ciphers theory and practical application".
Publications
Issued Patents
1.
Systems and methods for
analyzing software
Ryan Johnson, Nikolaos Kiourtis, Angelos Stavrou
U.S. Patent Number 10,387,627. Issued
on August 20th, 2019.
2.
Active
Authentication of Users
Angelos Stavrou, Rahul
Murmuria, Ryan Johnson, Daniel Barbara
U.S. Patent Number 10,289,819. Issued on May 14th,
2019.
3.
Methods
and systems for increased debugging transparency
Fengwei Zhang, Kevin Leach, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang
U.S. Patent Number 10,127,137. Issued on November 13th,
2018.
4.
Methods and Apparatus
for Application Isolation
Anup Ghosh, Yih Huang, Jiang Wang, Angelos Stavrou
U.S. Patent Number 9,602,524. Issued on March
21st, 2017.
5.
Malware Detector
Angelos Stavrou, Sushil Jajodia, Anup
Ghosh, Rhandi Martin, Charalampos Andrianakis
U.S. Patent Number 9,531,747. Issued on December
27th, 2016.
6.
Hardware-assisted
Integrity Monitor
Jiang Wang, Anup Ghosh,
Kun Sun, Angelos Stavrou
U.S. Patent Number 9,270,697.
Issued on February 23rd, 2016.
7.
Systems and Methods
for Inhibiting Attacks with a Network
Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis
U.S. Patent Number 9,344,418. Issued on May
17th, 2016.
8.
Methods and Apparatus
for Application Isolation
Anup Ghosh, Yih Huang, Jiang Wang, Angelos Stavrou
U.S. Patent Number 9,098,698. Issued on August
4th, 2015.
9.
Adaptive
feedback loop based on a sensor for streaming static and interactive
media content to animals
Angelos Stavrou, Margaret Lee Perry-Flippin
U.S. Patent Number 9,043,818. Issued on May 26th,
2015.
10.
Malware Detector
Angelos Stavrou, Sushil Jajodia, Anup
Ghosh, Rhandi Martin, Charalampos Andrianakis
U.S. Patent Number 8,935,773. Issued on January 13th, 2015.
11.
Systems, Methods,
and Media for Recovering an Application from a Fault or Attack
Michael E. Locasto,
Angelos D. Keromytis, Angelos
Stavrou, Gabriela F. Ciocarlie
U.S. Patent Number 8,924,782. Issued on December 30th, 2014.
12.
Hardware-assisted
Integrity Monitor
Jiang Wang, Angelos Stavrou, Anup Ghosh, Kun Sun
U.S. Patent Number 8,819,225. Issued on August 26th, 2014.
13. Website Matching
based on Network Traffic
Angelos Stavrou, Mohammed A.
Alhussein, Brian Sanders
U.S. Patent Number 8,726,005. Issued on May 13th, 2014.
14. Systems and Methods
for Inhibiting Attacks with a Network
Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis.
U.S. Patent Number 8,631,484. Issued on January 14th,
2014.
15. Methods, Media and Systems for Responding to a Denial
of Service Attack
Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason Nieh, Vishal Misra, and Daniel Rubenstein.
U.S. Patent Number 8,549,646. Issued on October 1st, 2013.
16.
Systems, Methods, and Media for Generating Sanitized Data,
Sanitizing Anomaly Detection Models, and/or Generating Sanitized Anomaly Detection
Models
Gabriela
Cretu, Angelos Stavrou, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Angelos D. Keromytis,
Michael E. Locasto.
U.S. Patent Number 8,407,160.
Issued on March 26th, 2013.
17.
Systems and Methods for
Computing Data Transmission Characteristics of a Network Path Based on Single-ended
Measurements
Angelos D. Keromytis, Sambuddho Chakravarty, and Angelos Stavrou.
U.S. Patent Number 8,228,815. Issued on July 24th, 2012.
18.
Methods, Systems and Media
for Software Self-Healing
Michael
E. Locasto, Angelos D. Keromytis, Salvatore J.
Stolfo, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela Cretu,
Stylianos Sidiroglou, Jason Nieh, and Oren Laadan.
U.S. Patent Number 7,962,798. Issued on June 14th, 2011.
19. Systems and Methods for Computing Data Transmission Characteristics of
a Network Path Based on Single-ended Measurements
Angelos D. Keromytis, Sambuddho
Chakravarty, and Angelos Stavrou. U.S. Patent Number 7,660,261. Issued on February 9th,
2010.
Journal Publications
1. Leveraging
Isochrons of Nonlinear Oscillators for High-Precision Localization
Alireza Famili,
Georgia Himona, Yannis Kominis, Angelos Stavrou, Vassilios
Kovanis.
IEEE Internet
Things Journal 12(8): 9833-9847 (2025)
2. Harnessing
Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Tracking in Geofencing Systems
Alireza Famili,
Shihua Sun, Tolga O. Atalay, Angelos Stavrou.
IEEE Open Journal
of Communications Society 6: 944-960 (2025)
Tolga O. Atalay,
Sudip Maitra, Dragoslav Stojadinovic, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang.
IEEE Transactions
on Dependable and Secure Computing 22(3): 2873-2890 (2025)
4. Revealing Protocol
Architecture's Design Patterns in the Volumetric DDoS Defense Design Space
Zhiyi
Zhang, Guorui Xiao, Sichen
Song, R. Can Aygun, Angelos Stavrou, Lixia Zhang, Eric Osterweil
IEEE Communication Surveys Tutorials
27(1): 353-371 (2025)
5. Harnessing Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced
Tracking in Geofencing Systems
A. Famili, S. Sun, T. Atalay and A. Stavrou.
To appear in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society 2025,
doi: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3531318.
6. Leveraging Isochrons of
Nonlinear Oscillators for High-Precision Localization
A. Famili, G. Himona, Y. Kominis, A. Stavrou and V. Kovanis
In
the IEEE Internet of Things Journal proceedings, doi:
10.1109/JIOT.2024.3508548.
7. Isochrons in Injection Locked Photonic Oscillators: A
New Frontier for High-Precision Localization
A. Famili, G. Himona, Y. Kominis, A. Stavrou and V. Kovanis
In
the IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation, vol. 2, pp.
304-319, 2024,
doi: 10.1109/JISPIN.2024.3504396.
8. All in one: Improving GPS accuracy
and security via crowdsourcing
Mahsa Foruhandeh, Hanchao Yang, Xiang Cheng, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang,
Yaling Yang
In Elsevier Computer
Networks, Volume 254, 2024, 110775, ISSN 1389-1286, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110775.
9.
Securing Your Airspace: Detection of Drones
Trespassing Protected Areas
Famili A, Stavrou A, Wang H, Park JJ, Gerdes R.
In Sensors. 2024
Mar 22;24(7):2028. doi: 10.3390/s24072028. PMID:
38610239; PMCID: PMC11013887.
10. OPTILOD: Optimal Beacon Placement for High-Accuracy
Indoor Localization of Drones
Famili, Alireza, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang,
and Jung-Min (Jerry) Park.
In Sensors 24, no.
6: 1865. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24061865
11. Revealing Protocol Architecture's Design Patterns in
the Volumetric DDoS Defense Design Space
Zhang, Zhiyi;
Xiao, Guorui; Song, Sichen; Aygun, R. Can; Stavrou, Angelos; Zhang, Lixia; Osterweil, Eric.
In the proceedings
of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2024).
12. A multiview
clustering framework for detecting deceptive reviews
Yubao Zhang, Haining Wang, Angelos Stavrou. In the proceedings
of Journal
of Computer Security, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 31-52, 2024.
13. OFDRA: Optimal Femtocell Deployment for Accurate
Indoor Positioning of RIS-Mounted AVs
A. Famili, T. O. Atalay, A. Stavrou, H. Wang and J. -M. Park. In the proceedings of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 3783-3798, Dec. 2023, doi:10.1109/JSAC.2023.3322821.
14.
iDROP: Robust Localization for Indoor
Navigation of Drones With Optimized Beacon Placement
A. Famili, A. Stavrou, H. Wang and J. -M. Park. In the proceedings of IEEE
Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 16, pp. 14226-14238, 15 Aug.15, 2023, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3280084.
15.
Revisiting the Spaceborne Illuminators of Opportunity
for Airborne Object Tracking. [PDF] John Robie,
Alireza Famili, Angelos Stavrou. In the proceedings of IEEE Computer 56(1): 82-92 (2023)
16.
PILOT: High-Precision Indoor Localization for
Autonomous Drones
A.
Famili, A. Stavrou, H. Wang and J. -M. Park. In the proceedings of IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 5, pp. 6445-6459, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3229628
17.
Understanding the Security Implication of Aborting
Live Migration
X. Gao, J. Xiao, H. Wang and Angelos Stavrou. IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput. 10(2): 1275-1286 (Online: 2020,
Published: 2022)
18.
21 Years
of Distributed Denial-of-Service: A Call to Action – Part 2 [PDF]
Eric Osterweil, Angelos Stavrou, and Lixia Zhang. In Computer, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 94-99, Aug. 2020, doi: 10.1109/MC.2020.2993330.
19.
21 Years
of Distributed Denial-of Service: Current State of Affairs - Part 1
[PDF]
Eric Osterweil, Angelos Stavrou, and Lixia Zhang. In Computer, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 88-92, July 2020, doi: 10.1109/MC.2020.2983711.
20. Towards
Transparent Debugging
Fengwei Zhang, Kevin Leach, Angelos Stavrou,
Haining Wang
In the proeedings of IEEE Transactions of Dependable
Secure Computing 15(2): 321-335 (IEEE TDSC 2018)
21.
On Early Detection of Application-level
Resource Exhaustion and Starvation
Mohamed Elsabagh, Daniel Barbará, Dan
Fleck, Angelos
Stavrou
In proceedings of the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software 137: 430-447 (2018)
22.
An Empirical Investigation of
Ecommerce-Reputation-Escalation-as-a-Service
Haitao Xu, Daiping
Liu, Haining Wang, Angelos Stavrou.
In the proceedings of ACM Transactions on the Web, Volume 11, Number 2, May
2017 (pages 13:1-13:35)
23.
DDoS in the IoT: Mirai and Other Botnets
Constantinos Kolias, Georgios Kambourakis, Angelos Stavrou,
Jeffrey M. Voas.
In the proceedings of IEEE Computer 50(7): 80-84 (2017)
24.
Cybersecurity Leadership: Competencies,
Governance, and Technologies for Industrial Control
Jean-Pierre Auffret, Jane L. Snowdon, Angelos Stavrou,
Jeffrey S. Katz, Diana Kelley, Rasheq S. Rahman,
Frank Stein, Lisa Sokol, Peter Allor, Peng Warweg. Systems.
Journal of Interconnection Networks 17(1): 1-20 (2017)
25.
Verified Time
Angelos Stavrou, Jeff Voas.
In the proceedings of IEEE Computer, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, March 2017
26. On
the Move: Evading Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
Angelos Stavrou, Daniel Fleck, Constantinos Kolias.
In the proceedings of IEEE Computer 49(3): 104-107 (2016)
27. Intrusion
Detection in 802.11 Networks: Empirical Evaluation of Threats and a Public
Dataset
Constantinos Kolias, Georgios Kambourakis, Angelos Stavrou, Stefanos Gritzalis.
In the proceedings of
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 18(1):
184-208 (2016)
28. Learning
Internet-of-Things Security "Hands-On"
Constantinos Kolias, Angelos Stavrou, Jeffrey M. Voas,
Irena Bojanova, D. Richard Kuhn.
In the proceedings of IEEE
Security & Privacy 14(1): 37-46 (2016)
29. Securely
Making "Things" Right
Constantinos Kolias, Angelos Stavrou, Jeffrey M. Voas.
In the proceedings of IEEE Computer 48(9): 84-88 IEEE Magazine (2015)
30. A
Moving Target DDoS Defense Mechanism
Huangxin Wang, Quan Jia, Dan Fleck, Walter Powell, Fei Li, Angelos Stavrou.
In the proceedings of Elsevier
Journal of Computer Communications, 46: 10-21 (2014)
31. HyperCheck: A Hardware-Assisted Integrity Monitor
Fengwei Zhang, Jiang Wang, Kun Sun, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the proceedings of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
(TDSC), 11(4):
332-344 (2014)
32. Improving network response times using
social information
Sharath Hiremagalore, Chen Liang, Angelos Stavrou
and Huzefa Rangwala.
In the proceedings of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer
Social Network Analysis and Mining, Volume 3, pages 209-220 (2013)
33.
Providing Users' Anonymity in Mobile Hybrid
Networks
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati, Angelos Stavrou.
In the proceedings of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Volume 12, 3,
Article 7, pages 1 - 33 (May 2013)
34.
Building Security into Off-the-Shelf
Smartphones
Angelos Stavrou, Jeffrey Voas, Tom Karygiannis, Steve Quirolgico.
In the proceedings of IEEE Computer, vol. 45, no.
2, pp. 82-84, Feb. 2012, doi:10.1109/MC.2012.44
35.
DoubleGuard: Detecting Intrusions In
Multi-tier Web Applications
Meixing Le, Angelos
Stavrou, Brent ByungHoon Kang.
In the proceedings of IEEE Journal on Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2011, ISSN: 1545-5971 10 Nov. 2011. IEEE computer
Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society. Acceptance Rate: 10-12% as
reported by 2009 TDSC editorial,
ISI Impact Factor: 2.093
(2010).
36.
The Ephemeral Legion:
Producing an Expert Cyber-security Workforce from Thin Air
Michael E. Locasto, Anup Ghosh, Sushil Jajodia,
and Angelos Stavrou.
In the proceedings of Communications of the ACM,
Vol. 54, Issue 1, pp 129 - 131.
Impact Factor: 2.362
(2010). [bib]
37.
The Dynamic Community of Interest and its
Realization in ZODIAC
Scott Alexander, Steve Bellovin, Yuu-Heng Cheng, Brian Coan, Andrei Ghetie,
Vikram Kaul, Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, Henning Schulzrinne, Stephen Schwab, Bruce
Siegell,
Angelos Stavrou, and Jonathan M. Smith.
In the proceedings of IEEE Communications Magazine, October 2009, pp. 40-47. Impact
Factor: 2.837
38.
On the Infeasibility of Modeling
Polymorphic Shellcode: Re-thinking the Role of Learning in Intrusion Detection
Systems
Yingbo Song, Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Salvatore J. Stolfo.
In the Proceedings of Machine Learning
Journal (MLJ) p. 179-205. Accepted: 7 August 2009.
Published online: 29 October 2009. Editors:
Pavel Laskov and Richard Lippmann. ISI Impact Factor: 1.956 (2010). [bib]
39.
WebSOS: An Overlay-based System For Protecting Web Servers From
Denial of Service Attacks
Angelos Stavrou, Debra L. Cook,
William G. Morein, Angelos D. Keromytis, Vishal
Misra, and Dan Rubenstein. In the proceedings of Elsevier
Journal of Computer Networks, special issue on Web and Network Security,
vol. 48, no.5, p. 781 - 807. August 2005 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.690.
[bib]
40. A Lightweight, Robust, P2P System to Handle
Flash Crowds
Angelos Stavrou, Dan Rubenstein,
Sambit Sahu.
In the Proceedings of IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC),
special issue on Service Overlay Networks, Volume 22, Number 1, p. 6-17,
January 2004. Impact Factor: 4.232 (2010). [bib]
41.
Conference Publications
1.
General and Agentic
AI, and the Challenges of Xplainable Reliability
Angelos Stavrou, Jeffrey M. Voas
IEEE Computer
58(6): 69-72 (2025)
2. 5G-STREAM: Service
Mesh Tailored for Reliable, Efficient and Authorized Microservices in the Cloud
Tolga O. Atalay,
Alireza Famili, Sudip Maitra, Dragoslav Stojadinovic, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang. In
the proceedings of 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable
Systems and Networks, DSN 2025: 116-128
3. Unlocking the
Potential of IEEE 802.11az: A Deep Dive into Ranging Capabilities
Alireza Famili,
Tolga O. Atalay, Angelos Stavrou.
In the proceedings
of International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, ICNC
2025, Honolulu, HI, USA, February 17-20, 2025, pp. 763-769
4. Enhancing Secure
Communication: Deep Q-Learning for Location-Based Authentication
Alireza Famili,
Shihua Sun, Tolga O. Atalay, Angelos Stavrou.
IEEE
Network Operations and Management Symposium, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 12-16, 2025
NOMS 2025: 1-9
5. Leveraging
Isochrons of Nonlinear Oscillators for High-Precision Localization
Alireza Famili,
Georgia Himona, Yannis Kominis, Angelos Stavrou,
Vassilios Kovanis
IEEE Internet
Things Journal 12(8): 9833-9847 (2025)
6. Stars and Towers
on the Wheels: Global Perspective on Satellite Networks vs. Terrestrial 5G
Amirreza Ghafoori, Alireza
Famili, Angelos Stavrou
To appear in the IEEE
Global Communications Conference, 8–12 December 2024 // Cape Town, South Africa
(IEEE Globecom’ 24).
7. ViTGuard: Attention-aware
Detection against Adversarial Examples for Vision Transformer
Shihua Sun, Kenechukwu
Nwodo, Shridatt Sugrim, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang
To appear in the
proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
2024 (ACSAC'24).
8. Evaluating 5G Core Service Mesh
Encapsulations in Cloud Deployments
Tolga O. Atalay, Alireza
Famili, Angelos Stavrou
In 2024 IEEE
Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks
(NFV-SDN)
9. Behind the Scenes of Successful Metaverse User
Traversal
A. Famili, T. Atalay and A. Stavrou
In 2024 2nd
International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies &
Applications (iMETA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates,
2024, pp. 168-175, doi:
10.1109/iMETA62882.2024.10808087.
10. An Exploration of Fuzzing for Discovering
Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities
Z. Chen, J. Xiao, A. Stavrou and H. Wang.
In the proceedings of
2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Workshops (ISSREW), Tsukuba, Japan, 2024, pp. 19-24, doi:
10.1109/ISSREW63542.2024.00041.
Sun, S., Sharma, P.,
Nwodo, K., Stavrou, A., Wang, H.
In: Mouha, N., Nikiforakis, N. (eds) Information Security. ISC 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15258. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75764-8_15
12. GREEN: Precise Geolocation in Metaverse using
Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Sensor Placement
Alireza Famili;
Tolga Atalay; Amin Tabrizian; Angelos Stavrou. In the proceedings of the 2024 IEEE
International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications (MetaCom), Hong Kong, China, 2024, pp. 231-238, doi: 10.1109/MetaCom62920.2024.00045
13. RAPID: Reinforcement Learning-Aided Femtocell
Placement for Indoor Drone Localization
Alireza Famili,
Amin Tabrizian, Tolga Atalay, Angelos Stavrou and Peng Wei
In the 33rd
International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
proceedings, Kailua-Kona, HI, USA, 2024, pp. 1-9, doi:
10.1109/ICCCN61486.2024.10637529.
14. Towards Shielding 5G Control Plane
Functions
S. Maitra, T. O.
Atalay, A.
Stavrou and
H. Wang
In 2024 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems
and Networks (DSN), Brisbane, Australia, 2024, pp. 302-315, doi:
10.1109/DSN58291.2024.00039.
15. Isochrons in Photonic Oscillators:
A Paradigm Shift in Positioning
A. Famili, G. Himona, Y. Kominis, A. Stavrou and V. Kovanis,
In 2024 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), Thessaloniki, Greece,
2024, pp. 1-7, doi:
10.23919/IFIPNetworking62109.2024.10619066.
16. CARTA: Coordinated Arrangement of
Receivers for Target Acquisition
A. Famili and A. Stavrou
In 2024 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), Thessaloniki, Greece,
2024, pp. 323-331, doi:
10.23919/IFIPNetworking62109.2024.10619793.
17. 5G-WAVE: A Core Network Framework with Decentralized
Authorization for Network Slices
P. Sharma, T.
Atalay, H. A. Gibbs, D. Stojadinovic, A. Stavrou and H. Wang
IEEE INFOCOM 2024
- IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2024, pp.
2308-2317, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621131.
Boris Gafurov, Angelos Stavrou
In
2024 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication
Systems (CITS), Girona, Spain, 2024, pp. 1-7, doi:
10.1109/CITS61189.2024.10608020.
19. 5GPS: 5G Femtocell Placement
Strategies for Ultra-Precise Indoor Localization in the Metaverse
Alireza Famili;Tolga O. Atalay;Angelos Stavrou
In 2024
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC),
Big Island, HI, USA, 2024, pp. 1132-1138, doi:
10.1109/ICNC59896.2024.10556043.
20. Demystifying 5G Traffic Patterns with an Indoor RAN
Measurement Campaign
Atalay, Tolga O., Famili, Alireza, Stojadinovic,
Dragoslav and Stavrou, Angelos.
In 2023 IEEE Global Communications
Conference (GLOBECOM) pp. 1185-1190,
ISBN: 979-8-3503-1090-0
21.
Wi-Six: Precise Positioning in the
Metaverse via Optimal Wi-Fi Router Deployment in 6G Networks. A. Famili, T. Atalay, A. Stavrou and H. Wang. (Best Paper Award)
In 2023 IEEE
International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom), Kyoto, Japan, 2023 pp. 17-24. doi:
10.1109/MetaCom57706.2023.00019
22. 2023. Dial "N" for
NXDomain: The Scale, Origin, and Security Implications of DNS Queries to
Non-Existent Domains.
Guannan Liu, Lin Jin, Shuai Hao, Yubao
Zhang, Daiping Liu, Angelos Stavrou, and Haining
Wang.
In the proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference (IMC
'23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 198–212. https://doi.org/10.1145/3618257.3624805
23. Securing
5G OpenRAN with a Scalable Authorization Framework
for xApps
Tolga O Atalay, Sudip Maitra, Dragoslav Stojadinovic, Angelos
Stavrou, Haining Wang. In the proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE
Conference on Computer Communications, New York City, NY, USA, 2023, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/INFOCOM53939.2023.10228961.
24. Vehicular Teamwork for Better Positioning
A. Famili, V. Slyusar,
Y. H. Lee and A. Stavrou. In the proceedings
of 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC),
Honolulu, Oahu, HI, USA, 2023, pp. 3507-3513, doi:
10.1109/SMC53992.2023.10393920.
25.
EGO-6: Enhancing
Geofencing Security Systems with Optimal Deployment of 6G TRPs
Alireza Famili, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang, Jung-Min Jerry Park. In the proceedings of Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, SVCC 2023, San Jose, CA, USA, May 17-19, 2023. IEEE 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-2157-9
26. Wi-Five: Optimal Placement of Wi-Fi Routers in 5G
Networks for Indoor Drone Navigation
A.
Famili, T. Atalay, A. Stavrou and H. Wang. In
the proceedings of the 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference
(VTC2023-Spring), Florence, Italy, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi:
10.1109/VTC2023-Spring57618.2023.10201144.
27. Isochrons
in tunable photonic oscillators and applications in precise positioning
G Himona, A Famili, A Stavrou, V Kovanis, Y Kominis
Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXXI 12415, 82-86
28. Detecting and Measuring
Misconfigured Manifests in Android Apps
Allen Yuqing Yang,
Mohamed Elsabagh, Chaoshun Zuo, Ryan Johnson, Angelos Stavrou, Zhiqiang Lin ACM
CCS '22: Proceedings of the 2022
ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications SecurityNovember 2022
Pages 3063–3077
https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.3560607
29. Network-Slice-as-a-Service
Deployment Cost Assessment in an End-to-End 5G Testbed
Tolga O. Atalay, Dragoslav
Stojadinovic, Alireza Famili, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang.
In the Proceedings of IEEE Global
Communications Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022, pp. 2056-2061, doi: 10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10001579.
30.
GPS Spoofing Detection by Leveraging 5G Positioning
Capabilities
Alireza Famili,
Mahsa Foruhandeh, Tolga Atalay, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang
IEEE Latin-American
Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022, pp. 1-6,
doi: 10.1109/LATINCOM56090.2022.10000569.
31. SPIN:
Sensor Placement for Indoor Navigation of Drones
Alireza Famili, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang,
Jung-Min Jerry Park
In the Proceedings of IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/LATINCOM56090.2022.10000583.
32. Streaming
and Unbalanced PSI from Function Secret Sharing
Samuel Dittmer,
Yuval Ishai, Steve Lu, Rafail Ostrovsky, Mohamed Elsabagh,
Nikolaos Kiourtis, Brian Schulte, Angelos Stavrou. Security and Cryptography for Networks. SCN 2022.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13409. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14791-3_25
33. Eternal
flying: Optimal placement of wireless chargers for nonstop drone flights
Alireza Famili, Angelos Stavrou
International
Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET),
Prague, Czech Republic, 2022, doi:
10.1109/ICECET55527.2022.9873507.
34. Receiver
Density Analysis for High Probability Detection of Forward Scattered Airborne
Signals
John Robie,
Alireza Famili, Angelos Stavrou
International
Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET),
Prague, Czech Republic, 2022, doi:
10.1109/ICECET55527.2022.9872553
35. RAIL: Robust Acoustic
Indoor Localization for Drones
A. Famili, A. Stavrou, H. Wang and J. -M. J. Park
In the Proceedings of
IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: (VTC2022-Spring), Helsinki, Finland,
2022, pp. 1-6, doi:
10.1109/VTC2022-Spring54318.2022.9860933.
36.
Characterization of AES
Implementations on Microprocessor-based IoT Devices
S. Roy, A. Stavrou, B. L. Mark, K. Zeng, S. M. P D and K. N. Khasawneh.
In the proceedings
of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC),
Austin, TX, USA, 2022, pp. 55-60, doi:
10.1109/WCNC51071.2022.9771975.
37. Scaling Network Slices with a 5G Testbed: A Resource
Consumption Study
Tolga O. Atalay,
Dragoslav Stojadinovic, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang
In the proceedings
of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC),
Austin, TX, USA, 2022, pp. 2649-2654, doi:
10.1109/WCNC51071.2022.9771860.
38. DEFInit: An Analysis of Exposed Android
Init Routines
Yuede Ji, Mohamed
Elsabagh, Ryan Johnson, and Angelos Stavrou
In the proceedings
of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2021)
39. (Un)protected Broadcasts in Android 9 and 10
Ryan Johnson,
Mohamed Elsabagh, and Angelos Stavrou
40. Black-Box IoT: Authentication and Distributed Storage of IoT
Data from Constrained Sensors
Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Foteini Baldimtsi, Constantinos Kolias, and Angelos Stavrou. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2021), 2021
41.
CloudSkulk:
A Nested Virtual Machine Based Rootkit and Its Detection.
J. Connelly, T. Roberts, X. Gao, J. Xiao, H. Wang, and A. Stavrou. In 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2021), 2021
42. FIRMSCOPE:
Automatic Uncovering of Privilege-Escalation Vulnerabilities in Pre-Installed
Apps in Android Firmware. [PDF]
Mohamed Elsabagh, Ryan Johnson, and Angelos Stavrou, Kryptowire; Chaoshun Zuo, Qingchuan
Zhao, and Zhiqiang Lin, The Ohio State University. In the 29th USENIX Security
Symposium (USENIX Security 20).
43.
Resilient and Scalable Cloned App Detection
Using Forced Execution and Compression Trees
Mohamed Elsabagh, Ryan Johnson, Angelos Stavrou
In proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC 2018)
G Kesidis, Y Shan, D Fleck, A Stavrou, T Konstantopoulos
In proceedings of the 2018 13th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (IEEE MALCON)
45.
Moving-target Defense against Botnet
Reconnaissance and an Adversarial Coupon-Collection Model
Dan Fleck, Angelos Stavrou, George Kesidis, N Nasiriani, Y Shan, T Konstantopoulos
In proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC 2018)
46.
End
Users Get Maneuvered: Empirical Analysis of Redirection Hijacking in Content
Delivery Networks
Shuai Hao, Yubao Zhang and Haining Wang, Angelos Stavrou
In the proceeding of the 27th Usenix Security Symposium, (Usenix Security 2018)
August 15-17, 2018, Baltimore, MD, USA
47.
Dazed
Droids: A Longitudinal Study of Android Inter-App Vulnerabilities
Ryan Johnson, Mohamed Elsabagh, Angelos Stavrou, and Jeff Offutt
In the Proceedings of ACM ASIA Conference on Computer & Communications
Security 2018,
(ASIACCS 2018), 777-791,
June 4 - 8, 2018, Sogdo, Incheon, Korea
48.
Detecting
and Characterizing Web Bot Traffic in a Large E-commerce Marketplace
Haitao Xu, Zhao Li, Chen Chu, Yuanmi Chen, Yifan Yang, Haifeng Lu, Haining Wang, and Angelos Stavrou, In the Proceedings of the 23rd
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS'18),
Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 19.8%, 56/283).
49.
The
Mirai Botnet and the IoT Zombie Armies
Georgios Kambourakis, Constantinos Kolias, and Angelos Stavrou
In the Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2017)
October 23 -25, 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA.
50.
Practical and
Accurate Runtime Application Protection against DoS Attacks
Mohamed Elsabagh, Dan Fleck, Angelos Stavrou, Michael
Kaplan, Thomas Bowen
In the Proceedings of 20th International Symposium on Research on Attacks,
Intrusions
and Defenses (RAID 2017). September 18-20, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
51.
E-Android: A
New Energy Profiling Tool for Smartphones
Xing Gao, Dachuan Liu, Daiping Liu, Haining Wang, Angelos Stavrou
In the proceedings of the the 37th IEEE International
Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), June 5-8, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(Acceptance Rate: 16.9%, 90/531)
52.
Detecting Passive Cheats
in Online Games via Performance-Skillfulness Inconsistency
Daiping Liu, Xing Gao, Mingwei Zhang, Haining Wang, Angelos Stavrou
In the proceedings of the 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable
Systems
and Networks (DSN 2017), June 26-29, 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA.
(Acceptance Rate: 22.3%, 49/220)
53.
Strict Virtual Call Integrity Checking for C++ Binaries (Distinguished paper award)
Mohamed Elsabagh, Dan Fleck, Angelos Stavrou
In the Proceedings of the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications
Security
(ASIACCS) 2017, April 2-6, 2017 Abu Dhabi, UAE
(Acceptance Rate: 18.7%, 67/359)
54.
Why
Software DoS is Hard to Fix: Denying Access in Embedded Android Platforms
Ryan Johnson, Mohamed Elsabagh, and Angelos Stavrou
In the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applied Cryptography
and
Network Security (ACNS) 2016, June 19-22, 2016, London, UK (Acceptance Rate: 19.13%, 35/183).
55.
When
a Tree Falls: Using Diversity in
Ensemble Classifiers to Identify Evasion in Malware Detectors
Charles Smutz and Angelos Stavrou
In the proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security
Symposium (NDSS) 2016,
February 21-24, San Diego, California, USA (Acceptance Rate: 15.4%, 60/389).
56.
Targeted
DoS on Android: How to Disable Android in 10 Seconds or Less
Ryan Johnson, Mohamed Elsabagh, Angelos Stavrou, and Vincent Sritapan
In the proceedings of the 10th Malware Conference (MALCON) Oct. 2015, IEEE
Computer Society
ISBN: 978-1-5090-0317-4 pp: 136-143 Puerto Rico, USA.
57.
Preventing
Exploits in Microsoft Office Documents through Content Randomization
Charles Smutz and Angelos Stavrou
In the proceedings of the 18th
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID),
November 2015, Kyoto, Japan (Acceptance Rate: 23.5%, 28/119).
58.
Continuous
Authentication on Mobile Devices Using Power Consumption, Touch Gestures and
Physical Movement of Users
Rahul Murmuria, Angelos Stavrou, Daniel Barbara, Dan Fleck
In the proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Research in Attacks,
Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), November 2015, Kyoto, Japan (Acceptance Rate:
23.5%, 28/119).
59.
Privacy
Risk Assessment on Online Photos
Haitao Xu, Haining Wang, Angelos Stavrou
In the proceedings of the 18th
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID),
November 2015, Kyoto, Japan (Acceptance Rate: 23.5%, 28/119).
60.
Radmin: Early Detection of Application-Level
Resource Exhaustion and Starvation Attacks
Mohamed Elsabagh, Daniel Barbara,
Daniel Fleck, Angelos
Stavrou
In the proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Research in Attacks,
Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), November 2015, Kyoto, Japan (Acceptance Rate:
23.5%, 28/119).
61.
On the DNS
Deployment of Modern Web Services (Best
paper nominee)
Shuai Hao, Haining Wang, Angelos Stavrou, and Evgenia Smirni
In the proceeding of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Network
Protocols (ICNP)
November 10-13 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA (Acceptance
rate: 20%).
62.
Analysis
of Content Copyright Infringement in Mobile Application Markets
(Best paper award)
Ryan Johnson, Nikolaos Kiourtis, Angelos Stavrou, and Vincent Sritapan
In the proceedings of APWG/IEEE eCrime Research
Summit 2015, May 2015, Barcelona, Spain.
63.
Using Hardware
Features for Increased Debugging Transparency
Fengwei Zhang, Kevin Leach, Angelos Stavrou,
Haining Wang, and Kun Sun
In the Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
(Oakland 2015), May 2015, San Jose, CA (Acceptance Rate: 13.5%, 55/407).
64. Resurrecting the READ_LOGS Permission on
Samsung Devices
Ryan Johnson and Angelos
Stavrou
In the briefings of Blackhat
Asia 2015.
65.
E-commerce Reputation Manipulation: The Emergence of
Reputation-Escalation-as-a-Service (Best paper nominee)
Haitao Xu, Daiping Liu, Haining Wang and Angelos Stavrou
In the Proceedings of 24th World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015) (Acceptance
Rate: 14.1%, 131/929).
66. TrustLogin: Securing Password-Login on Commodity
Operating Systems
Fengwei Zhang, Kevin Leach, Haining Wang, and Angelos Stavrou
In the Proceedings of The 10th ACM Symposium on
Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS'15), Singapore,
April 2015 (Acceptance Rate: 17.8%, 48/269).
67. transAD: An Anomaly Detection Network Intrusion
Sensor for the Web (short paper)
Sharath Hiremagalore, Daniel Barbara, Dan Fleck, Walter Powell, and Angelos Stavrou
In the Proceedings of Information Security Conference (ISC 2014), Lecture Notes in
Computer Science p 477-489, Hong Kong, Oct 2014.
(Acceptance Rate: 17.8%, 48/269)
68. A
Framework to Secure Peripherals at Runtime
Fengwei Zhang, Haining Wang, Kevin Leach, Angelos Stavrou
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) p. 219-238 (2014)
(Acceptance Rate: 24.8%, 58/234)
69. Click
Fraud Detection on the Advertiser Side
Haitao Xu, Daiping Liu, Aaron Koehl, Haining
Wang, Angelos Stavrou
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) p. 419-438 (2014)
(Acceptance Rate: 24.8%, 58/234)
70.
Activity
Spoofing and Its Defense in Android Smartphones
Brett Cooley, Haining Wang, and Angelos
Stavrou
In the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Applied
Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2014) Lausanne, Switzerland.
(Acceptance Rate: 22.5%, 33/147)
71.
Catch Me if You Can: A Cloud-Enabled DDoS
Defense
Quan Jia, Huangxin Wang, Dan Fleck, Fei Li, Angelos Stavrou, Walter A. Powell.
In the Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on
Dependable Systems and Networks (IEEE DSN 2014),
Atlanta, Georgia USA,
June 23 - 26, 2014.
72.
Detecting Malicious Javascript
in PDF through Document Instrumentation
Daiping Liu,
Haining Wang, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference
on
Dependable Systems and Networks (IEEE DSN 2014),
Atlanta, Georgia USA,
June 23 - 26, 2014.
73.
PyTrigger: A System to Trigger
& Extract User-Activated Malware Behavior
Dan Fleck, Arnur Tokhtabayev, Alex Alarif, Angelos Stavrou, and Tomas Nykodym.
In the proceedings of the 8th
ARES Conference (ARES 2013),
University of Regensburg, Germany September 2nd - 6th, 2013.
74.
MOTAG:
Moving Target Defense Against Internet Denial of Service Attacks
Quan Jia, Kun Sun, Angelos
Stavrou.
In the proceedings of the International
Conference on Computer Communications
and Networks ICCCN 2013 Nassau, Bahamas July 30 - August 2, 2013.
75. Behavioral Analysis of Android
Applications Using Automated Instrumentation
Mohammad Karami, Mohamed Elsabagh, Parnian Najafiborazjani,
and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 7th
International Conference on Software Security and Reliability
(IEEE SERE 2013), 18-20 June 2013, Washington DC, USA. (Acceptance rate
30%)
76. Forced-Path Execution for Android
Applications on x86 Platforms
Ryan Johnson, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 7th
International Conference on Software Security and Reliability
(IEEE SERE 2013), 18-20 June 2013, Washington DC, USA. (Acceptance rate
30%)
77.
Towards
a Cyber Conflict Taxonomy
Scott Applegate and Angelos Stavrou.
To appear in the Proceedings of the 5th International
Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2013)
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
conference, 4-7 June 2013 in Tallinn, Estonia.
78.
Spectre: A Dependable Introspection Framework via
System Management Mode
Fengwei Zhang, Kevin Leach, Kun Sun, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 43nd Annual IEEE/IFIP
International Conference on
Dependable Systems and Networks (IEEE DSN 2013),
Budapest, 24 - 27 June 2013.
(Acceptance Rate: 19.6%)
79.
Exposing
Software Security and Availability Risks For
Commercial Mobile Devices (CMDs)
Ryan Johnson, Zhaohui Wang, Angelos
Stavrou, and Jeff Voas.
In the Proceedings of the IEEE RAMS 2013,
Orlando, Florida, 28 - 31 January 2013.
80.
Malicious
PDF Detection Using Metadata and Structural Features
Charles Smutz and Angelos
Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
(ACSAC), Orlando, Florida, USA, December 3-7, 2012. (Acceptance Rate: 19%,
44/231)
81.
Malware
Characterization using Behavioral Components
Chaitanya Yavvari, Arnur Tokhtabayev, Huzefa
Rangwala, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of 6th International Conference "Mathematical Methods, Models, and
Architectures for Computer Network Security", St. Petersburg, Russia,
October 17-20, 2012.
82.
Exposing
Security Risks for Commercial Mobile Devices(Invited)
Zhaohui Wang, Ryan Johnson, Rahul Murmuria, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of 6th International Conference "Mathematical Methods, Models, and
Architectures for Computer Network Security", St. Petersburg, Russia,
October 17-20, 2012.
83.
Mobile Application and Device Power Usage
Measurements
Rahul Murmuria, Jeffrey Medsger, Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software
Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.
84. Netgator: Malware Detection Using Program
Interactive Challenges
Brian
Schulte, Haris Andrianakis, Kun Sun, Angelos Stavrou.
In the
Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware
& Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2012), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 26-27th, 2012.
85. A Dependability Analysis of
Hardware-Assisted Polling Integrity Checking Systems
Jiang Wang, Kun Sun, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on
Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2012), Boston,
Massachusetts, June, 2012.
86. Implementing
& Optimizing an Encryption File System on Android
Zhaohui
Wang, Rahul Murmuria, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data
Management
(IEEE MDM 2012), July 23 - 26, 2012, Bangalore, India. (Acceptance Rate: 22/88)
87. Analysis Android Applications’ Permissions
(short paper)
Ryan Johnson, Zhaohui Wang, Corey Gagnon and Angelos
Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.
88. Mutual Authentication for USB
Communications (short paper)
Zhaohui Wang, Ryan Johnson and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 6th
International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.
89. A Framework for Automated Security Testing
of Android Applications on the Cloud (short)
Sam Malek, Naeem Esfahani, Thabet Kacem, Riyadh Mahmood, Nariman Mirzaei, and Angelos Stavrou. In the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.
90. SecureSwitch: BIOS-Assisted Isolation and Switch
between Trusted and Untrusted Commodity OSes
Kun Sun, Jiang Wang, Fengwei Zhang and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 19th Annual Network & Distributed System
Security Symposium NDSS 2012, San Diego, California, 5-8 February
2012. Impact Factor: 2.60 (Acceptance Rate: 46/258 - 17.8%). [Presentation]
91.
Hardware-Assisted Application Integrity
Monitor
Jiang Wang, Kun Sun, Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS45) pp. 5375-5383, 45th Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences, 2012 January 4-7, 2012, Grand
Wailea, Maui, USA. Impact Factor: N/A,
(Acceptance Rate: N/A).
92.
Cross-domain
Collaborative Anomaly Detection: So Far Yet So Close
Nathaniel Boggs, Sharath Hiremagalore, Angelos
Stavrou, Salvatore J. Stolfo.
In the Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Recent
Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID). September 2011, Menlo Park, CA.
Impact Factor: 2.20
(Acceptance rate: 20/87 - 23%).
93.
Trading Elephants For
Ants: Efficient Post-Attack Reconstitution (Short paper)
Meixing Le, Zhaohui Wang, Quan Jia, Angelos Stavrou, Anup Ghosh and Sushil Jajodia
In the Proceedings of the 7th International ICST Conference on Security and
Privacy
in Communication Networks (Securecomm 2011), p. 1-10,
September 7-9 2011, London.
Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance rate: 24%).
94.
Predicting Network Response Times Using
Social Information (short paper)
Chen Liang, Sharath Hiremagalore, Angelos
Stavrou and Huzefa Rangwala.
In the Proceedings of the ACM 2011
Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, p. 527-531, July, 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Impact Factor: N/A,
(Acceptance rate: 25%) [bib]
95.
Breaching and Protecting an Anonymizing
Network System
Jason Clark and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 6th Annual Symposium on Information
Assurance (ASIA 2011).
Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance rate: 50%).
96.
Advantages and disadvantages of remote
asynchronous usability testing using amazon mechanical turk
Erik Nelson and Angelos Stavrou.
Proceedings of the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society 55th Annual Meeting, pages 1080-1084, HFES 2011 Conference, Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas,
Nevada, September 19-23, 2011.
Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance rate: N/A).
97.
Exploiting
Smart-Phone USB Connectivity For Fun And Profit (Extended Version)
Angelos Stavrou
and Zhaohui Wang.
BlackHat Technical Conference DC 2011 - Technical Briefings
Session.
98.
Exploiting
Smart-Phone USB Connectivity For Fun And Profit
Zhaohui Wang and Angelos
Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 26th Annual
Computer Security Applications Conference (ACM ACSAC)
p. 357-366. December 6-10, 2010, Austin, Texas, USA. Impact Factor: 1.82 (Acceptance rate:
39/227) [bib]
99.
Experimental Results
of Cross-Site Exchange of Web Content Anomaly Detector Alerts
Nathaniel Boggs, Sharath Hiremagalore, Angelos Stavrou, and Salvatore J. Stolfo.
In the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on
Homeland Security Technologies (IEEE HST 2010),
November 8-10, 2010, Waltham, MA, USA. Impact Factor: N/A (Acceptance rate:
N/A).
100.An
Adversarial Evaluation of Network Signaling and Control Mechanisms
Kangkook Jee, Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos, Angelos Stavrou, and Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Security
and Cryptology (ICISC).
December 2010, Seoul, Korea. Impact Factor: N/A (Acceptance rate: N/A).
101.Small
World VoIP
Xiaohui Yang, Angelos Stavrou,
Ram Dantu, and Duminda Wijesekera.
In the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mobile Computing,
Applications,
and Services MobiCASE,
October 25-28, 2010, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Impact Factor: N/A (Acceptance rate: N/A).
102.QoP and QoS policy cognizant policy composition
Paul Seymer, Angelos Stavrou,
Duminda Wijesekera, Sushil Jajodia.
In the Proceedings of the IEEE
International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems
and Networks, p. 77-86, Fairfax, VA, July 21-23, 2010. (Acceptance rate: 19.2%)
[bib]
103.Providing Mobile Users' Anonymity in Hybrid
Networks
Claudio Ardagna, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati, and Angelos Stavrou (Alphabetic)
In the Proceedings of the 15th European
Symposium on Research in Computer Security
(ESORICS 2010), p. 540-557, September 2010, Athens, Greece.
Impact Factor: 1.45 (Acceptance rate:
42/210 - 20%). [bib]
104.Traffic Analysis Against Low-Latency
Anonymity Networks Using Available Bandwidth Estimation
Sambuddho Chakravarty, Angelos Stavrou, and Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the 15th European
Symposium on Research in Computer Security
(ESORICS 2010) p. 249-267, September 2010, Athens, Greece.
Impact Factor: 1.45 (Acceptance rate:
42/210 - 20%). [bib]
105.HyperCheck: A Hardware-Assisted Integrity Monitor
Jiang Wang, Angelos Stavrou,
and Anup K. Ghosh.
In the Proceedings of 13th International
Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection
(RAID 2010), p. 158-177, Ottawa, Canada, September 15-17, 2010.
Impact Factor: 2.20 (Acceptance rate:
24/104 - 23.1%). [bib]
106.A Virtualization Architecture for In-Depth
Kernel Isolation
Jiang Wang, Sameer Niphadkar, Angelos
Stavrou, Anup K. Ghosh.
In the Proceedings of 43rd Hawaii International International
Conference on Systems Science,
IEEE Computer Society, p. 1-10, 5-8 January 2010, Koloa, Kauai, HI, USA.
Impact Factor: N/A (Acceptance rate: N/A).
107.Privacy preservation over untrusted mobile
networks
Claudio A. Ardagna, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati, Angelos Stavrou in Privacy in Location-Based
Applications: Research Issues and
Emerging Trends, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume
5599, 2009, pages 84-105. Impact Factor: N/A (Acceptance rate: N/A).
108.Deny-by-Default Distributed Security Policy
Enforcement in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (short)
Mansoor Alicherry, Angelos D. Keromytis,
and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Security and
Privacy in Communication
Networks SECURECOMM 2009, p. 41-50. September 2009, Athens, Greece.
Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance rate: 25.3%). [bib]
109.Adding Trust to P2P Distribution of Paid
Content
Alex Sherman, Angelos Stavrou,
Jason Nieh, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Clifford Stein.
In the Proceedings of the 12th Information Security Conference (ISC),
p.459-474.
September 2009, Pisa, Italy. Impact Factor: 1.24, (Acceptance rate: 27.6%).
[bib]
110.A2M:
Access-Assured Mobile Desktop Computing
Angelos Stavrou,
Ricardo A. Baratto, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Jason
Nieh.
In the Proceedings of the 12th Information Security Conference (ISC), p.
186-201.
September 2009, Pisa, Italy. Impact Factor: 1.24, (Acceptance rate: 27.6%).
[bib]
111.Adaptive Anomaly Detection via
Self-Calibration and Dynamic Updating
Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos Stavrou, Michael
E. Locasto, Salvatore J. Stolfo.
In the Proceedings of 12th International Symposium On
Recent Advances In Intrusion Detection,
p. 41-60. Saint-Malo, Brittany, France, September 23-25, 2009.
Impact Factor: 2.20 (Acceptance rate: 17
/ 59 - 28.8%). [bib]
112.SQLProb: A Proxy-based Architecture towards Preventing SQL Injection Attacks
Anyi Liu, Yi Yuan, Duminda Wijesekera, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'09), p.
2054-2061
March 8-12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii. Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance Rate:
16.6%). [bib]
113.A Security Architecture for Information
Assurance and Availability in MANETs
Angelos Stavrou,
and Anup K. Ghosh.
In the Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Military Communications (MILCOM '08),
p. 1 - 8, November 2008, San Diego, CA. Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance Rate:
N/A).
Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance Rate: N/A). [bib]
114.PAR: Payment for Anonymous Routing
Elli Androulaki, Mariana Raykova, Shreyas Srivatsan, Angelos
Stavrou, and Steven M. Bellovin.
In the Proceedings of 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, p. 219-236,
Leuven, Belgium
July 23 - July 25, 2008. Impact Factor: 1.95,
Acceptance rate: 13/49 - 26%). [bib]
115.The Hidden Difficulties of Watching and
Rebuilding Networks.
Michael Locasto and Angelos Stavrou.
IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 79-82, Mar/Apr,
2008.
Impact Factor: 1.17, (Acceptance Rate: N/A). [bib]
116.Pushback for Overlay Networks: Protecting
against Malicious Insiders
Angelos Stavrou, Michael E. Locasto, and
Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Applied Cryptography
and Network Security (ACNS). June 2008, New York, NY.
Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance Rate: N/A). [bib]
117.Casting out Demons: Sanitizing Training
Data for Anomaly Sensors
Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos Stavrou
, Michael E. Locasto, Salvatore
J. Stolfo, and Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy p. 81-95.
May 2008, Oakland, CA.
Impact Factor: 4.15, (Acceptance
Rate: 11.2%) [bib]
118.On the Infeasibility of Modeling
Polymorphic Shellcode
Yingbo Song, Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou , Angelos D. Keromytis,
and Salvatore J. Stolfo.
In the Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications
Security (CCS),
pp. 541 - 551. October/November 2007, Alexandria, VA. Impact Factor: 2.87, (Acceptance rate:
18.1%) [bib]
119.A Study of Malcode-Bearing
Documents
Weijen Li, Salvatore Stolfo, Angelos Stavrou, Elli Androulaki, and Angelos D. Keromytis.
In Proceedings of the 4th GI International Conference on Detection of
Intrusions & Malware, and
Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), pp. 231 - 250. July 2007, Lucerne,
Switzerland.
Impact Factor: 1.42, (Acceptance rate: 21%). [bib]
120.From STEM to SEAD: Speculative Execution
for Automated Defense.
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou,
Gabriela F. Cretu, and Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the USENIX
Annual Technical Conference (USENIX 2007),
pp. 219-232, June 2007, Santa Clara, CA. Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance rate: 18.75%)
[bib]
121.Network Security as a Composable Service
Stelios Sidiroglou, Angelos Stavrou, and
Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the IEEE
Sarnoff Symposium. January 2007, Princeton, NJ. (Invited paper)
122.Countering DDoS Attacks with Multi-path
Overlay Networks
Angelos Stavrou and Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Information Assurance Technology
Analysis Center (IATAC) Information Assurance
Newsletter (IAnewsletter), vol. 9, no. 3, November
2006. (Invited paper, based on the CCS 2005 paper.)[pdf]
123.W3Bcrypt: Encryption as a Stylesheet
Angelos Stavrou, Michael E. Locasto, and
Angelos D. Keromytis. In the Proceedings of the
4th International Conference on
Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2006),
pp. 349-364, June 6-9, 2006, Singapore. Impact Factor: 1.44,
(Acceptance rate: 33 / 218 -
15.1%) [bib]
124.Countering DoS Attacks With
Stateless Multipath Overlays
Angelos Stavrou and Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Computer
and Communications Security (CCS),
pp. 249 - 259. November 2005, Alexandria, VA. Impact Factor: 2.87,
(Acceptance rate: 15.2%) [bib]
125.gore: Routing-Assisted Defense Against DDoS
Attacks
Stephen T. Chou, Angelos Stavrou, John
Ioannidis, and Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the 8th
Information Security Conference (ISC), p.
179-193.
September 2005, Singapore. Impact
Factor: 1.24, (Acceptance rate: 14%). [bib]
126.MOVE: An End-to-End Solution To Network Denial of Service
Angelos Stavrou, Angelos D. Keromytis, Jason Nieh, Vishal Misra, and Dan Rubenstein.
In the Proceedings of the Internet Society (ISOC) Symposium on
Network and Distributed Systems Security
(NDSS), pp. 81 - 96. February 2005, San Diego, CA. Impact Factor: 2.60
(Acceptance rate: 12.9%). [bib]
127.Content distribution for seamless
transmission
Edward G. Coffman Jr., Andreas Constantinides, Dan Rubenstein, Bruce
Shepherd, Angelos Stavrou
In the Proceedings of SIGMETRICS
Performance Evaluation Review 32(2): 31-32 (2004) [pdf (936
KB)].
128.A Pay-per-Use DoS Protection Mechanism For
The Web
Angelos Stavrou, John Ioannidis,
Angelos D. Keromytis, Vishal Misra, and Dan
Rubenstein.
In the Proceedings of the Applied
Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) Conference.
June 2004, Yellow Mountain, China. LNCS Volume 3089/2004, pp. 120-134, ISBN:
3-540-22217-0.
Impact Factor: 1.44
(Acceptance rate: 12%). [bib]
129.Using Graphic Turing Tests to Counter
Automated DDoS Attacks Against Web Servers
William G. Morein, Angelos Stavrou,
Debra L. Cook, Angelos D. Keromytis, Vishal Misra,
Dan Rubenstein.
In the Proceedings of the 10th
ACM International Conference on Computer and Communications Security
(CCS), Washington, DC, October 2003. Impact Factor: 2.87,
(Acceptance rate: 13.8%) [bib]
130.A Lightweight, Robust P2P System to Handle
Flash Crowds
Angelos Stavrou, Dan Rubenstein and
Sambit Sahu.
In the Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2002, Paris, France, November, 2002.
[Proceedings
Version ps (252K)] [Proceedings
Version ps.gz (65K)] [Proceedings
Version pdf (143K)]
An earlier version is available as Columbia Technical Report EE020321-1,
February, 2002.
[Tech Report ps (508K)] [Tech Report
ps.gz (109K)] [Tech Report pdf
(242K)].
Impact Factor: N/A, (Acceptance rate: 14.7%). [bib]
Books/Book Chapters
1.
Overlay-Based
DoS Defenses
Angelos Stavrou. In Henk C.A. van Tilborg and Sushil Jajodia,
editors, Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, 2nd
Edition. Springer, 2010.
2. TCP Modulation Attacks
Angelos Stavrou. In Henk C.A. van Tilborg and Sushil Jajodia,
editors, Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, 2nd
Edition. Springer, 2010.
Workshops
1. Microservices made attack-resilient using unsupervised service
fissioning [PDF]
Ataollah Fatahi Baarzi, George Kesidis, Dan Fleck, Angelos Stavrou.
In EuroSec '20: Proceedings of the 13th European
workshop on Systems Security,
April 2020 Pages 31–36.
2. Breaking
BLE Beacons For Fun But Mostly Profit
Constantinos Kolias, Lucas Copi, Fengwei Zhang,
Angelos Stavrou
EUROSEC 2017: 4:1-4:6
3. Your
Data in Your Hands: Privacy-preserving User Behavior Models for Context
Computation
Rahul Murmuria, Angelos Stavrou, Daniel Barbara, and Vincent Sritapan
To appear in the proceedings of International Workshop on Behavioral
Implications of Contextual Analytics (co-located with IEEE PerCom
2017)
4. Authentication Feature and Model Selection using Penalty
Algorithms
Rahul Murmuria and Angelos Stavrou.
In the proceedings of
the Twelfth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2016). USENIX
Association, 2016, Way workshop, Denver Colorado June 22-24, 2016
5. Switchwall: Automated Topology Fingerprinting &
Behavior Deviation Identification
Nelson Nazzicari, Javier Almillategui, Angelos Stavrou and Sushil Jajodia.
In the Proceedings of
the 8th International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM 2012)
in conjunction with ESORICS 2012,
Pisa, Italy - September 13-14, 2012
6. A Whitebox Approach for
Automated Security Testing of Android Applications on the Cloud
Riyadh Mahmood, Naeem Esfahani, Thabet Kacem, Nariman Mirzaei, Sam Malek, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on
Automation of Software Test (AST 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, June 2012.
7. The MEERKATS Cloud Security Architecture
, , , , ,
, ,
, ,
and .
In the Proceedings of the 3rd
International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing
(ICDCS-SPCC). June 2012, Macao, China.
8. CapMan:
Capability-based Defense against Multi-Path Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks in
MANET
Quan Jia, Kun Sun and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the
First International Workshop on Privacy, Security and Trust in Mobile and
Wireless Systems
(MobiPST 2011) in conjunction with 20th International Conference on
Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2011)
9.
The MINESTRONE Architecture: Combining Static
and Dynamic Analysis Techniques for Software Security
Angelos D. Keromytis, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Junfeng Yang, Angelos Stavrou,
Anup Ghosh, Dawson Engler, Marc Dacier, Matthew Elder, and Darrell Kienzle.
In the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Systems Security (SysSec).
July 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
10.
Firmware-assisted Memory Acquisition and
Analysis tools for Digital Forensic (short paper)
Jiang Wang, Fengwei Zhang, Kun Sun, and Angelos
Stavrou.
In the Sixth International Workshop on
Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (IEEE SADFE 2011).
In conjunction with IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, Oakland, CA, USA, May
26, 2011
11. Moving Forward,
Building An Ethics Community (Panel
Statements) - Computer Security Ethics, Quo Vadis?
Erin Kenneally, Angelos Stavrou, John
McHugh, and Nicolas Christin.
In the proceedings of the 2nd
Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security Research 2011
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
12.
Scalable Web Object Inspection and Malfease Collection
Charalampos Andrianakis, Paul Seymer, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '10).
August 10, 2010 Washington, DC. (Acceptance rate:
11/57)
13.
Fine-grained Sharing of Health Records using
XSPA Profile for XACML
A. Al-Faresi, Bo Yu, Khalid Moidu, Angelos Stavrou, Duminda Wijesekera,
Anoop Singhal
In the Proceedings of 1st USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy (HealthSec '10),
August, 2010, Washington DC, USA.
14.
Evaluating a Collaborative Defense Architecture for
MANETs
Mansoor Alicherry, Angelos Stavrou, and Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings (electronic) of the IEEE Workshop on Collaborative Security
Technologies (CoSec),
pp. 37 - 42. December 2009, Bangalore, India. (Acceptance rate: 17.2%).
15.
Keep your friends
close: the necessity for updating an anomaly sensor with legitimate environment
changes.
Angelos Stavrou,
Gabriela F. Cretu, Michael E. Locasto, Salvatore J. Stolfo.
In the Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Security and Artificial
intelligence
(Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 09 - 09, 2009). AISec
'09. ACM, New York, NY, 39-46. (Position paper)
16.
The Heisenberg
Measuring Uncertainty in Lightweight Virtualization Testbeds
Quan Jia, Zhaohui Wang and Angelos
Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test
(CSET '09). August, 2009, Montreal, Canada.
17.
Universal
Multi-Factor Authentication Using Graphical Passwords
Alireza Pirayesh Sabzevar, and Angelos Stavrou.
In the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy in
Telecommunications and Information Systems (SePTIS).
December 2008, Bali, Indonesia.
18.
Identifying
Proxy Nodes in a Tor Anonymization Circuit
Sambuddho Chakravarty, Angelos
Stavrou, and Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy
in Telecommunications and Information Systems (SePTIS).
December 2008, Bali, Indonesia.
19.
A
multi-path approach for k-anonymity in mobile hybrid networks
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Angelos Stavrou,
Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati and Rhandi Martin.
In the Proceedings of International Workshop on Privacy in Location-Based
Applications (PiLBA '08), October 2008.
20.
Efficiently
Tracking Application Interactions using Lightweight Virtualization
Yih Huang, Angelos Stavrou, Anup K. Ghosh
and Sushil Jajodia.
In the Proceeding of the 1st Workshop on
Virtualization Security (VMSec), in conjunction
with ACM CCS 2008, October 2008.
21.
Return
Value Predictability for Self-Healing
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou>,
Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos D. Keromytis, and
Salvatore J. Stolfo.
In the Proceedings of the 3rd International
Workshop on Security (IWSEC), November 2008, Kagawa, Japan.
22.
Online
Training and Sanitization of AD Systems (extended abstract)
Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos Stavrou, Michael
E. Locasto, Salvatore J. Stolfo.
In the Proceedings of NIPS 2007 Workshop on Machine Learning in Adversarial
Environments for Computer Security,
December 2007, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. [pdf]
23.
Data
Sanitization: Improving the Forensic Utility of Anomaly Detection Systems
Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos Stavrou,
Salvatore J. Stolfo, Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep), pp. 64 - 70. June 2007, Edinburgh, UK. [pdf]
24.
Bridging the
Network Reservation Gap Using Overlays
Angelos Stavrou, David Turner, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Vassilis Prevelakis.
In the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on
Information Assurance for Middleware Communications (IAMCOM).
January 2007, Bangalore, India. [pdf] [ps]
25.
Dark
Application Communities
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, and
Angelos D. Keromytis.
In the Proceedings of the 15th New
Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 2006).
September 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. [pdf]
[ps]
Technical Reports
1. Netgator: Malware Detection Through Program Interactive Proofs
GMU-CS-TR-2011-6
2. SecureSwitch: BIOS-Assisted Isolation and Switch between Trusted and Untrusted Commodity OSes
, GMU-CS-TR-2011-7
3. An Analysis of System Management Mode (SMM)-based Integrity Checking Systems and Evasion Attacks
, GMU-CS-TR-2011-8
4.
Ruminate: A
Scalable Architecture for Deep Network Analysis
, GMU-CS-TR-2010-20.
Professional
Activities & Service
Founder &
CEO
-
Kryptowire
LLC (https://www.kryptowire.com/)
Founder &
Chief Scientist
-
Quokka
INC (https://www.quokka.io)
Editorial Positions, Panels, and
Boards
·
IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine (01-01-2017
- Present)
Type: Internet
publication
Role:
Associate or guest editor/curator
·
International Journal of Information Security
(01-01-2019 - Present)
Type: Journal
Role:
Editorial/curatorial board member
·
IEEE Transactions on Computers (01-01-2020 - Present)
Type: Journal
Role:
Associate or guest editor/curator
Description:
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers
·
IEEE Internet Computing (01-01-2020 - Present)
Type: Journal
Role:
Associate or guest editor/curator
Past:
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Reliability, September 2015 - 2020
IET
Journal on Information Security, May 2010 – May 2018
Encyclopedia
of Cryptography and Security, Editorial Board Member, March 2010 – 2020
Program Organization:
Program General co-Chair, ACM
Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2022
Program co-Chair, 10th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec): 2017, 2018
Program co-Chair, Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) Symposium, RAID 2013, 2014
Student
Travel Grant Chair, ACM Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009, 2010
Program co-Chair, Workshop on Cyber Security
Experimentation and Test (CSET): 2009, 2010
Program co-Chair, 1st
Workshop on Virtual Machine Security (VMSec): 2008,
2009
Program Committee Member (Selected):
IEEE Symposium on Security
and Privacy (IEEE S&P): 2010, 2011, 2012,
2024, 2025
USENIX
Security Symposium: 2007,
2008, 2009, 2020, 2021,
2023, 2024, 2025
ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in
Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) 2020
IEEE
MILCOM (Track 3): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2024
IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing: 2017, 2024, 2025
IEEE International Conference on
Software Quality, Reliability and Security: 2016
Recent
Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID): 2011,
2012, 2017
ACM Conference on Computer and
Communications Security (CCS): 2009, 2010
Annual Computer Security
Applications Conference (ACSAC): 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Network
and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS): 2009, 2010
International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS): 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
25th ACM
Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC): 2010
Financial Cryptography and Data
Security: 2010, 2011, 2012
5th ACM
Int'l Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments
and Technologies: 2009
USENIX Security Symposium: 2007, 2008, 2009
International ICST
Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks
(SecureComm),
2009, 2010, 2011
European Workshop on
System Security (EUROSEC): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and
Networks, POLICY 2010, 2011, 2012
ECML/PKDD Workshop on Privacy and Security issues in Data Mining and
Machine Learning PSDML 2010
2nd USENIX Workshop on
Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET): 2009
European Conference on Computer
Network Defense (EC2ND): 2008
Workshop on Cyber Security
Experimentation and Test : 2008, 2013
Information Security Conference (ISC):
2008, 2009
Patent Litigation Experience
Expert
witness for patent invalidity reports, depositions, patent office actions,
Inter Partes Disputes preparation, product infringement reports, code and
system examination.
Wilson
Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Client:
Wiz Inc
Patent
Trial and Appeal Board Proceedings Between Wiz, Inc. and Orca Security Ltd
Multiple
patents
Case: Orca
Security Ltd. V. Wiz, Inc., No. 1-23-cv-00758 (D. Del.)
Deposed multiple times in the case involving six
patents
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Client: IBM Corporation and Red Hat, Inc.
(collectively “IBM”)
Case: VirtaMove, Corp. v. IBM Corp., Case No.
2:24-cv-00064 (E.D. Tex.).
Deposed in the case
Baker Botts LLP
Client:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
VirtaMove, Corp. v. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Company,
Case No.
2:24-cv-00093-JRG (E.D. Tex.)
Deposed in the case
Quinn
Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
Client:
Fortinet Inc.
Fortinet,
Inc. v. Sophos, Inc
Case No
13-cv-05831-EMC (representing Fortinet)
Deposed
in the case
Feinberg
Day Alberti & Thompson LLP ("Feinberg Day")
Representing:
Intellectual Ventures II L.L.C.
Case:
Intellectual Ventures II L.L.C. v. JP Morgan Chase & Co. et al
(representing IV)
Case:
1:13-cv-03777 | New York Southern District Court
Case:
1:13-cv-03777-AKH
Civil
Action No. 2:13-cv-1106-AKK
Case:
l:13-CV-02454-WSD
Case:
2:13-CV-04160-NKL
Case:
2:13-CV-785
Case:
8:13-cv-00167
Case:
IPR2014-00786, Patent No. 6,826,694
IP Patent
Consulting
Law firm: Brian Owens, Esq
Case: Multiple pertaining to analysis of patent
validity.
Project: On-going consulting on patent infringement,
validity, and claim construction
Patent Filling/Examination Experience
Consulted GMU legal team on patent filling, claim
structure, and responses to USPTO examination and re-examination of relevant
patents.
1.
U.S. Patent
Application 12/558,841 filed on September 14, 2009, entitled "Distributed
Sensor for Detecting Malicious Software."
2.
U.S. Patent
Application 12/548,175 filed on August 26, 2009, entitled "Event Driven
Email Revocation."
3.
U.S. Patent
Application 12/688,037 filed on January 15, 2010, entitled "Authentication
Using Graphical Passwords."
4.
U.S. Patent
Application 12/757,675 filed on April 9, 2010, entitled "Malware
Detector."
5.
U.S. Patent
Application 12/965,413 filed on December 10, 2010, entitled "Website
Detection."
6.
U.S. Patent
Application 12/835,228 filed on July 13, 2010, entitled "Inferring Packet
Management Utility Rules."
7.
U.S. Patent
Application 611413,673 filed on November 15, 2010, entitled "HyperCheck: A Hardware Assisted Integrity Monitor."
8.
U.S. Patent Application
611413,677 filed on November 15, 2010, entitled "Network Traffic
Analysis."
Consulted on more patents filled prior to 2007 while I was at Columbia
University (worked with Columbia retained law firms).
Advisory Boards, Workshops
& Other Professional Activities
Academic Program Director, Masters in Management of Secure
Information Systems, George Mason University, 2014 – May 2017
Academic
Program Director, Masters in Information Security and
Assurance, George Mason University, 2013 - 2015
IEEE Rebooting Computing Committee, 2013 - onwards
Senior Member
of the IEEE, 2012
- onwards
Subject Matter Expert, DARPA Transformative Applications, September 2010 - September
2012
USDA Federal Mobile Computing Summit,
2011
NIST Mobile & Smart Phone Technologies Technical Exchange Meeting, 2011
Google Faculty Summit, July 2010
ARO/NSF Workshop on Moving Target Defense, October 2010
National Science Foundation Panels: 2008,
2009
DARPA Cyber Genome Project, Dec 2009
DARPA Digital Object Storage and Retrieval (DOSR), July 2008
DARPA Intrinsically Assurable Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
(IAMANETs), January 2008
Ph.D. Thesis Committee Service
1. Mahmood Riyadh, Electrical Engineering Department, George Mason University, Summer
2015.
2. Velegalati Rajesh, Electrical Engineering Department, George Mason University, Summer 2015.
3. Yu Bo, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, Fall 2014.
4. Jin Jing, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, Fall 2013.
5. Xu Min, Computer Science Department, George Mason University, Fall 2013.
6. Caixia Wang, Thesis title: "Spatial content-based scene matching using a
relaxation method",
Department of Geography and GeoInformation
Science, George Mason University, November 2010.
7. Mansoor Alicherry, Thesis title: "A Distributed Policy Enforcement Architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks",
Computer Science Department, Columbia University, October 2010.
8. Min Xu, Thesis title: "Session-aware RBAC Administration, Delegation, and Enforcement with XACML",
Computer Science Department, George Mason University, April 2010.
Post-Doctoral
Researchers
Konstantinos
Kolias (August 2014 - 2019)
Daniel Fleck (August 2012 - 2019)
Nelson
Nazzicari (August 2010 - September
2011)
Arnur Tokhtabayev (May 2011 - November 2012)
Current Ph.D. Students
Full Time Ph.D. Students
1.
Kenechukwu Nwondo (Auguest 2020 - present) co-advised with Dr. Haining Wang
2.
Sudip Maitra (August 2021 – present) co-advised with
Dr. Haining Wang
3.
Shihua Sun (August 2021 – present), co-advised with
Dr. Haining Wang
4.
Amirreza Ghafoori (August
2023 – present)
5.
Tanvi
Garg (August 2023 – present)
Graduated Ph.D. Students
Tolga
Atalay (September
2018 - December 2023
Alireza
Famili (September 2017 - Summer 2023)
Mahsa
Foruhandeh (part-time, graduated 2022)
· Thesis title: "
Thesis title: "Automatic Program State
Exploration Techniques for Security Analysis of Android Apps"
·
Currently: Google Inc.
Ryan
E. Johnson
(January 2011 – December 2019)
·
Thesis title: "Automatic
Program State Exploration Techniques for Security Analysis of Android Apps"
·
Post-graduation: Director of Research, Kryptowire LLC
·
Currently: Director of Research, Kryptowire LLC
Rahul
Murmuria (January 2011 – September
2017)
Mohamed
Elsabagh (September 2012 –
June 2017)
Charles
Smutz (January 2009 - August 2016) (part-time Ph.D.)
Sharath
Hiremagalore (September 2009 -
August 2015)
Fengwei Zhang (September 2011 - April 2015)
Quan
Jia (September 2008 - January 2014)
Zhaohui
Wang (September 2008 - December 2012)
Jiang
Wang (January 2008 - July 2011)
Graduated MSc. Students
1.
Charalampos Andrianakis (September 2008 - September
2011)
2.
Rhandi Martin (January 2009 - January 2011)
Service at George Mason
University
Volgenau School of Engineering, Academic Director,
M.S. in Management of Secure Information Systems Program, School of Management (March 2014 - 2018)
Computer
Science Department, ISA Admissions & Policy Committee (September 2008 - present)
Computer Science Department, Security Recruiting Committee (September
2010 - July 2011)
Computer Science Department, APR ISA Committee (September 2010 - July
2011)
USENIX Association Campus Representative (2010 - present)
Faculty
Advisor, undergraduate student group: GMU ECHO (Electrical & Computer Hacking
Organization) (September 2009 - 2013)
Faculty Advisor, graduate student group: GMU Information Security Association (November
2007 - November 2009)
Teaching Experience
Virginia
Tech
(Scores indicate mean
course quality rating from student survey out of a maximum of 6.0)
Fall 2025:
ECE/CS
5984, Engineering Entrepreneurship
Spring 2024: MGT 5984, Eng. Prototyping
& Proj. Management (New: 15 students, class: :5.38)
Fall 2023: ECE/CS 5984, Engineering Entrepreneurship (New: 20
students, class: 5:43)
Fall 2021: ECE/CS 5560, Fundamentals of Information Security (71 students)
Spring 2020: ECE/CS 5584, Nework Security (18 students, Instr. :5.33, Class: 5.33)
Fall 2020: ECE 4614, Telecommunication Networks (33 students,
Instr. :5.47, Class: 5.32)
George Mason University
(Scores indicate mean
course quality rating from student survey out of a maximum of 5.0)
Spring 2019: ISA
564/CS 499, Cyber Security Laboratory
Fall 2018: ISA 673, Operating Systems' Security
Fall 2017: CS 468, Secure Programing and Systems
Fall
2016: ISA
564, CS 499, Cyber Security Laboratory (14
students, Instr.: 4.43, Class: 4.86)
Fall
2015: ISA 564/CS 499,
Cyber Security Laboratory (19 students, Instr.:
4.13, Class: 4.31)
Spring 2015: MSEC510, Foundations of Cyber Security (31 students, Instr.: 4.39, Class: 4.33)
Spring 2015: MSEC 650, Seminar: Enterprise Security
Case St. (18 students, Instr.: 4.36,
Class: 4.27)
Spring 2015: MSEC 720, Capstone Project Mgmt. Secure
Info (18 students, Instr.: 4.22, Class: 3.72)
Spring 2015: ISA 785, Research in Digital Forensics (13 students, no evaluation)
Spring 2014: MSEC 511, Enterprise Security Practices (21
students, Instr.: 4.22, Class: 3.72)
Spring 2013: MSEC 642, Enterprise Security Technology (27
students, Instr.: 4.55, Class: 4.54)
Spring 2013: MSEC 511, Enterprise Security Practices (21
students, Instr.: 4.67, Class: 4.50)
Spring 2013: ISA 673, Operating Systems Security (31
students, Instr.: 4.53, Class: 4.55)
Fall 2012: ISA 674, Intrusion Detection (29 students, Instr.: 4.71, Class: 4.71)
Spring
2012 - Fall 2007. Weighted Average, Instructor: 4.66, Class: 4.53
Spring 2012: ISA 673, Operating Systems' Security (36 students, Instr.: 4.71, Class: 4.48)
Spring 2012: MSEC 511, Enterprise Security Practices (30 students, Instr.: 4.93, Class: 4.77)
Fall 2011: ISA 785, Research in Digital Forensics (29 students, Instr.: 4.91, Class: 4.91)
Fall 2010: ISA 862, Models for Computer Security (23
students, Instr.: 4.89,
Class: 4.84)
Spring 2010: ISA 673, Operating Systems Security (28 students, Instr.: 4.46,
Class: 4.58)
Fall
2009: CS 571, Operating Systems
(40 students, Instr.: 4.58, Class: 4.21)
Spring
2009: ISA 564, Security Laboratory (46 students, Instr.: 4.45, Class: 4.42)
Fall
2008: ISA 656, Network Security (28 students, Instr.: 4.81, Class: 4.69)
Spring
2008: IT 862, Models for Computer Security (29 students, Instr.: 4.38, Class: 4.25)
Spring
2008: ISA 656, Network Security (32 students, Instr.: 4.64, Class: 4.46)
Fall
2007: ISA 656, Network Security (30 students, Instr.: 4.68, Class: 4.50)
Awarded Support for Research and Teaching (Gifts and Grants)
Total: ~$42,533,000 Total as PI: ~$34,682,500
1. PI DARPA CASTLE, $16,459,443, PI DARPA CASTLE, $16,459,443,
“Multi-Agent Training Exerciser (MATREX)” (A2Labs, Virginia Tech, SRC, RTX)
2. PI DARPA STTR Twisted, Phase I, $67,500, 02/01/2021 –
11/30/2021 “Highly assured trusted information storage device”
(with Trusted Science and Technology Inc.)
3. PI DARPA WASH, ~$6,700,000, 03/01/2018 – 02/30/2022
via Kryptowire LLC “SHINE: Sensing Health Innovatively Using Novel
Empiricism”
4. PI NIST, $473,632,
09/01/2016 - 08/31/2019 "Towards
Measuring Security for IoT"
5. Co-PI NSF,
$299,935, 09/01/2016 - 08/31/2019 "City and County Cross Jurisdiction Cybersecurity Collaboration Capacity
Building" (with J.P.
Auffret)
6.
PI DARPA LADS (sub to PFP Cyber), $1,454,051, 05/01/2016 - 04/30/2020 "Enhanced
Cyber Defense by Leveraging Involuntary Analog Emissions" (with J.P. Auffret)
7.
PI DARPA XD3, $4,433,701, 04/12/2016 - 06/30/2020 "Democratizing DDoS Defenses Using
Secure Indirection Networks" (GMU-lead team with Columbia University,
Penn. State, and BAE Systems, GMU portion $1,529,742 without options) (with
Dan Fleck)
8.
PI DAPRA XD3 (sub to Vencore, Inc), $944,150, 04/20/2016
- 04/19/2019 "Lookout - for the DARPA Extreme DDoS Defense-
TA3" (with Dan Fleck)
9.
PI, Korea Agency for Defense Development, $267,682,
06/02/2014 - 02/15/2016,
"Technical consulting on the test and evaluation
methodology for cyber-security technologies"
(with J.P. Auffret)
10. PI, NSF, $174,900,
09/01/2014
- 08/31/2017, "TWC: TTP Option: Small: Collaborative:
Scalable Techniques for Better Situational Awareness: Algorithmic Frameworks
and Large-Scale Empirical Analyses" (with Fabian Monrose, UNC)
11. Co-PI, DARPA (sub
to Invincea Labs), $360,753, 01/15/2014 - 03/30/2015,
"TAPIO: Targeted Attack Premonition using
Integrated Operational data sources" (with Dan Fleck)
12. PI, NSF, $484,857,
08/01/2013 - 07/30/2016, "Bridging
the Cybersecurity Leadership Gap: Assessment, Competencies and Capacity
Building" (with J.P.
Auffret)
13. PI, DHS/Purdue, $486,691, 07/01/2013 - 06/30/2016,
"Analysis of Mobile Application Communications
Using GUI & Data Instrumentation"
14. Co-PI, DHS, $256,000,
09/20/2012
- 08/31/2017, "Graduate Fellowship Training for Homeland Security" (with Duminda Wijesekera and Damon McCoy)
15. co-PI Google
Research Award, $75,000, 06/2013 (with Damon
McCoy)
16. co-PI NSF II-New, $547,000 09/2012-08/2013, "An Experimental Infrastructure for Cross-Domain Research in Wireless
Computing, Cybersecurity and Data" (with Robert Simon, Daniel Barbara and Brian Mark)
17. PI (GMU), DARPA
MRC, $750,363 09/2011 - 01/2016, "MEERKATS: Maintaining EnterprisE
Resiliency via Kaleidoscopic Adaptation & Transformation
of Software Services",
(Part of team that includes Columbia University and Symantec Corp. total
budget: $6,619,270) (with Fei Li)
18. PI, DARPA
Transformative Applications/Aterrasys, $511,323
08/24/2011 - 08/24/2012, "Securing Android Mobile Devices"
19. PI, Army Research Office (ARO), DURIP $205,983 06/15/2011
- 06/14/2012, "A
VPN Proxy Cloud for Detecting HTTP & VoIP Malware" (with Anup Ghosh)
20. PI, IARPA, $2,169,506 08/02/2010 - 05/31/2014, "Securely Taking on New
Executable Software of Uncertain Provenance (STONESOUP) Program" (with
Anup Ghosh)
21. PI, DARPA, $1,527,225 07/01/2010 - 06/30/2014, "CyNomix: Detecting Zero-Day Malware by Generating
Behavioral Cyber Genome Sequences" (with Huzefa Rangwala)
22. PI, NIST/DARPA, $653,780 (+$300,000 Supplement) 08/01/2010
- 07/31/2013,
"Securing Android Smart-Phones via Automated
Testing and Certified Communications" (with Anup Ghosh)
23. co-PI, NIST, $431,902 07/01/2010 - 06/30/2013, "Building Policies to
Control Virtual Environments using the Policy Machine" (with Duminda
Wijesekera)
24. co-PI, DHS, $368,923/$980,000 08/27/2010 - 05/31/2011
(2010),
"ATHENA-Yukon Project" (with Anup Ghosh)
25. co-PI, Secure Command, LLC $32,797 09/01/2010 -
03/31/2011,
"Enforcing Hardware-Assisted Integrity & Trust for Commodity Operating
Systems" (with Kun Sun)
26. PI, NSF, $239,884
09/2009-08/2011, "TC:
Small: Collaborative Research: Scalable Malware Analysis Using Lightweight
Virtualization"
(with Fabian Monrose)
27. PI, Army Research Office (ARO), $342,400
09/2009-08/2011, STTR Phase II: "Automatic
Identification & Mitigation of Unauthorized Information Leaking from
Enterprise Networks" (with Sushil Jajodia)
28. co-PI, DARPA, $291,000 09/2009-08/2010, "An
Architecture for Providing High Assurance of Untrusted Applications on Wireless
Handheld Devices" (with Anup Ghosh).
29. co-PI, BAE Systems/DARPA, $59,875 1/1/09 -
09/11/2009, "National Cyber Range" (with Anup Ghosh)
30. PI, Google Inc: Research gift, $90,000 03/09, (with Fabian
Monrose)
31. co-PI, AFOSR, $250,675 08/2009-08/2010, DURIP: "A Laboratory for Large-Scale
Testing of Self-Healing" (with Anup Ghosh)
32. co-PI, Princeton University/DARPA, $84,937 8/16/08 - 8/31/09, "Parallelizing
Legacy Binary Code for Multi-Core Architectures via Extraction of
Self-Similarity" (with Michael Locasto)
33. co-PI, Army Research Office (ARO), DURIP $150,000 07/2009-07/2009,
"A
Laboratory for Proactively Preventing Phishing and Malcode
Attacks Using Web Crawlers",
(with Sushil Jajodia and Anup Ghosh)
34. co-PI, DHS/I3P Dartmouth College, $60,000 11/2009, "Securing the
Railway IT Infrastructure", (with
Michael Locasto and Duminda Wijesekera)
35. co-PI, AFOSR, $670,499 07/2009-07/2011, "Secure Composition of Networked
Systems Based on User Tasks and Organizational Policy" (with Duminda Wijesekera and Sushil Jajodia).
36. co-PI, DARPA/BAE Systems, $50,000 1/1/09 - 6/30/09 "National
Cyber Range"
(with Anup Ghosh)
37. PI DHS/I3P Dartmouth College: $150,000 8/10/08 -
8/9/09 "Open
Taint: Flexible and Automatic Dataflow Tagging and Control for
User-Level Programs" (with Michael Locasto)
38. co-PI, Google Inc: Research gift, $25,000 03/08, (with Steven M. Bellovin)
39. co-PI, Secure Command, LLC: $50,000 9/19/08 - 3/18/09 "STTR:
Fingerprinting Network Traffic" (with Sushil Jajodia)
Research Experience
Computer
Science department, Columbia University,
Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, New York, NY.
Research Assistant (Fall 2003 - Summer 2007).
Design and Implementation of protection mechanisms against DDoS Attacks using
Overlay networks. |
NSL Web page has more info on SOS/WEBSOS project.
Electrical Engineering department, Columbia University,
Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science, New York, NY.
Research Assistant (Spring 2002 - Fall 2003).
Design and implementation of a novel peer to peer client/server protocol in
Java.
Performed Internet experiments using up to 180 concurrent nodes in various
locations around the world.
European Union program TIDE/RISE for home networks application.
Development of robust home network applications for a controlled medical environment.
General Secretariat of Research and Technology of Greece.
Design and implementation of Industrial network for the Kopais
industry as a part of a program from the
General Secretariat of Research and Technology of Greece.
Prior to 2001 Work Experience
01/1999 - 12/2000: Network Administrator, University of Athens
03/1997 - 07/1998: Network Administrator. Westnet
S.A.
09/1994 - 09/1997: University of Patras, Network
Administrator
Academic Honors, Fellowships
IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Award (2024) – awarded in June 2025.
Outstanding Research Award: 2016 Department of Computer
Science, George Mason University.
IEEE Reliability
Society Engineer of the Year Award (2012) - awarded
January 2013.
Mason
Masters In Secure Information Systems Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award (2013, 2014).
Mason
Emerging Researcher/Scholar/Creator award: 2012 George Mason University (one
out of three awards for 2012-2013).
Outstanding Research Award: 2010 Department of Computer
Science, George Mason University.
Dissertation with Distinction Award: 2007 Computer Science Department,
Columbia University.
CS Service Award: 2006 Computer
Science Department, Columbia University.
Preceptor: Columbia
University Fellow Spring 2004 & Fall 2005.
Best Teaching
Assistant Award: Spring
2002, Columbia University.
Scholarship: from the graduate
program of Algorithms, Logic & Computation for the first two years of study
(1998-2000).
Greek National
Fellowship Institution award: for being the second (2/180) for the
first and third years of undergraduate study.
Professional
References
Professor Angelos
D. Keromytis, John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Chair, and
Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of
Technology
Contact: angelos@gatech.edu
Klaus 3362, 266 Ferst Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
https://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff-directory/angelos-d-keromytis
Professor Fabian Monrose, Kenan
Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Contact: fabian@cs.unc.edu
3175 Sitterson Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175
https://www.cs.unc.edu/~fabian/web.html
Professor Salvatore J. Stolfo,
Computer Science Department, Columbia University
Contact: sal@columbia.edu
606 CEPSR, Mail Code 0401, 530 West 120th Street, New
York, NY 10027
Professor Jonathan M. Smith, Olga and
Alberico Pompa Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of
Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Contact: jms@cis.upenn.edu
604 Levine Hall, CIS Dept., 3330 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA
19104-6389
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jms/
Professor Steven M. Bellovin, Computer
Science Department, Columbia University
Contact: smb@cs.columbia.edu
454 Computer Science Building, 500 West 120th St, M.C. 0401, New
York, NY 10027-7003
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/