Recipient of the NSF CAREER award, Meta Faculty Award in Security, Joukowsky Outstanding Dissertation Award, and Miretta Flytzani-Stephanopoulos Doctoral Thesis Achievement. His research has been funded by the NSF and the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative. Multiple papers have been accepted at conferences such as USENIX Security'25 and CCS'24, and he has given talks at various academic events.
Research Experience
Before joining George Mason, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the EECS Department of UC Berkeley.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University; M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Crete, where he was a member of ICS-FORTH.
Background
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University. His research is in computer security and privacy, with a focus on scalable encrypted systems and the intersection of AI/ML and security.
Miscellany
Openings for motivated Ph.D. students with a focus on applied cryptography. Interested candidates can contact him to join the group.