Work Experience
Security Researcher September 2018 - present
Brave Software, London, UKFields of Research: Web Security & Privacy, Fraud Detection & Prevention, Bot Detection
Assistant Researcher March 2014 - August 2018
Distributed Computing Systems Laboratory (DCS Lab), Institute of Computer Science (ICS),Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Supervisor: Prof. Evangelos P. Markatos,
Dr. Sotiris Ioannidis
Participation in the EU-funded projects
SysSec, ForToo,
TRACER.
Fields of Research: Web Fingerprinting, Privacy and Anonymity, Network Security
Research Intern October 2016 - February 2017
Telefonica I+D, Barcelona, SpainSupervisors: Dr. Nicolas Kourtellis Fields of Research: Web Privacy Summary: We conduct the first to our knowledge full-scale longitudinal study about Cookie Synchronization in the wild. In particular, we investigate this mechanism, which is used as a workaround for same-origin policy along with the privacy leak it causes to the users.
Research Intern November 2015 - March 2016
Telefonica I+D, Barcelona, SpainSupervisors: Dr. Nikolaos Laoutaris, Dr. Nicolas Kourtellis Fields of Research: Web Advertising & Privacy Summary: We measure the monetary cost the advertisers pay for the user's private data. By tapping on programmatic auctions and RTB protocol, we train a model, that uses as input the private data the user leaks, to extract the per-impression cost paid at real-time, either when the price is encrypted or not.
Assistant Researcher January 2012 . February 2014
Distributed Computing Systems Laboratory (DCS Lab),Institute of Computer Science (ICS),
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Supervisor: Prof. Evangelos P. Markatos
Participation in the EU-funded project SysSec.
Fields of Research: Network Security, Privacy and Anonymity, Distributed Systems.
Teaching Activities January 2012 . Present
Computer Science Department, University of Crete, GreeceTeaching Assistance in the courses:
- Web Programming (CS359) Spring 2012 ~ Prof. Y. Tzitzikas, University of Crete
- Data Structures (CS240) Fall 2012 ~ Prof. P. Fatourou, University of Crete
- Laboratory in Software Engineering (CS255) Spring 2013 ~ Prof. A. Bilas, University of Crete
- Operating Systems (CS345) Fall 2013, 2014, 2015 ~ Prof. E. Markatos, University of Crete
- Internet Measurements (CS459) Spring 2014 ~ Prof. E. Markatos, University of Crete
- Operating Systems (CS345) Fall 2014 ~ Prof. E. Markatos, University of Crete
- Internet Systems and Technologies (CS558)Spring 2015 - Prof. E. Markatos, University of Crete
- Game Theory (CS693)Spring 2017 - Prof. A. Traganitis and Dr. M. Fasoulakis, University of Crete
Undergraduate Trainee September 2011 . December 2011
Distributed Computing Systems Laboratory (DCS Lab),Institute of Computer Science (ICS),
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
Supervisor: Prof. Evangelos P. Markatos
Fields of Research: Web Security & Privacy