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Georgios Theodorakopoulos

Dr Georgios Theodorakopoulos

Reader

School of Computer Science and Informatics

Email
TheodorakopoulosG@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 74855
Campuses
Abacws, Room 4.15, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG

Overview

My research interests span privacy, security, and (computational) trust in mobile networks.

Privacy is my main current focus, and these are the questions I try to answer:

  • In what ways do we disclose private information (through smartphone apps, social networks, Internet-enabled devices)?
  • How can we protect our information without going off the grid (by adding some sort of noise)?
  • Most importantly, how can we reason concretely and quantitatively about privacy attacks and defences (e.g. in order to provide privacy guarantees, or to monetize private information appropriately)?

Publication

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2016

2015

  • Theodorakopoulos, G. 2015. The same-origin attack against location privacy. Presented at: 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Denver, Colorado, USA, 12-126 October 2015 Presented at Ray, I., Hopper, N. and Jansen, R. eds.WPES '15 Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. ACM pp. 49-53., (10.1145/2808138.2808150)

2014

2013

2012

  • Shokri, R., Theodorakopoulos, G., Troncoso, C., Hubaux, J. and Le Boudec, J. 2012. Protecting location privacy: Optimal strategy against localization attacks. Presented at: 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2012), Raleigh, NC, USA, 16-18 October 2012 Presented at Yu, T., Danezis, G. and Gligor, V. D. eds.Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS'12, Raleigh, NC, USA, October 16-18, 2012. ACM 2012. New York, NY: ACM pp. 617-627., (10.1145/2382196.2382261)

2011

  • Shokri, R., Theodorakopoulos, G., Le Boudec, J. and Hubaux, J. 2011. Quantifying location privacy. Presented at: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), Berkeley, CA, USA, 22-25 May 2011 Presented at O’Conner, L. ed.Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 247-262., (10.1109/SP.2011.18)

2010

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2007

2006

2004

  • Theodorakopoulos, G. and Baras, J. S. 2004. Trust evaluation in ad-hoc networks. Presented at: WiSe '04:3rd ACM workshop on Wireless security, 1 October 2004 Presented at Jakobsson, M. and Perrig, A. eds.WiSe '04 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Wireless security. New York, NY: ACM pp. 1-10., (10.1145/1023646.1023648)

Articles

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Books

Conferences

Monographs

Thesis

Teaching

I teach cryptography, malware analysis, and penetration testing.

Biography

George Theodorakopoulos received the Diploma degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2002, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 2004 and 2007, all in electrical and computer engineering.

He is a Reader at the School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Senior Researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is a coauthor (with John Baras) of the book Path Problems in Networks (Morgan & Claypool, 2010).

He received the Best Paper award at the ACM Workshop on Wireless Security, October 2004, for "Trust evaluation in ad-hoc networks" and the 2007 IEEE ComSoc Leonard Abraham prize for "On trust models and trust evaluation metrics for ad hoc networks." He coauthored the paper "Quantifying Location Privacy," which was runner-up for the 2012 PET Award (Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies) and received a Test of Time award at 2021 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

Education and qualifications

  • 2007: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  • 2004: MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  • 2002: Diploma (5yr BSc) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Honours and awards

Professional memberships

Member of the IEEE

Academic positions

  • 2018 - present: Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, School of Computer Science and Informatics
  • 2012 - 2018: Lecturer, Cardiff University, School of Computer Science and Informatics
  • 2011 - 2012 Lecturer, University of Derby, School of Computing and Mathematics
  • 2007 - 2011 Senior Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Committees and reviewing

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • Grant reviewer for EPSRC, Royal Society, Leverhulme Trust, Dutch Research Council (NWO), German Research Foundation (DFG), Swiss Research Council (SNF)
  • Book proposal reviewer for Elsevier, CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group, NOW Publishers (Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security)

Supervisions

I am open to new topics, but I am particularly interested in supervising PhD students on

  • security and privacy in IoT devices and networks
  • privacy in machine learning

Please look at my publications to see more details about the topics I am working on and about the methods I use in my research. I am more likely to supervise students that show me they have some idea of my research.

Current supervision