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Dr Georgios Theodorakopoulos
- Available for postgraduate supervision
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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
2025
- Alali, A. , Theodorakopoulos, G. and Emad, A. 2025. Efficient classification of partially faked audio using deep learning. Presented at: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Crete, Greece 4-6 August 2025. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). IEEE. , pp.963-968. (10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130153)
- Alali, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2025. Partial fake speech attacks in the real world using deepfake audio. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy 5 (1) 6. (10.3390/jcp5010006)
- Bian, P. et al., 2025. Optimal string sanitization against strategic attackers. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 20 , pp.11462-11476. (10.1109/TIFS.2025.3610245)
- Kurt, F. et al. 2025. POSTER: Automating ICS Malware Analysis with MITRE ATT&CK. Presented at: ACM AsiaCCS Hanoi, Vietnam 25-29 August 2025. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.1806-1808. (10.1145/3708821.3735345)
- Song, R. et al. 2025. Digital roads and data ethics: Exploring the road users’ perspective. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 115 103330. (10.1016/j.trf.2025.103330)
2024
- Al Lelah, T. et al. 2024. Detecting the abuse of cloud services for C&C infrastructure through dynamic analysis and machine learning. Presented at: 2024 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC) Washington DC, USA 22-25 October 2024. 2024 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC). IEEE. , pp.1-7. (10.1109/isncc62547.2024.10758940)
- Alali, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2024. An RFP dataset for Real, Fake, and Partially fake audio detection. Presented at: Springer 9th International Conference on Cyber Security, Privacy in Communication Networks (ICCS2023) Cardiff, Wales, UK 11-12 December 2023. AI Applications in Cyber Security and Communication Networks. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems Vol. 1032. Springer(10.1007/978-981-97-3973-8_1)
- Alali, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2024. Review of existing methods for generating and detecting fake and partially fake audio. Presented at: 10th ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics (IWSPA 2024) Porto, Portugal 21 June 2024. IWSPA '24: Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics. New York, NY, USA: ACM. , pp.35-36. (10.1145/3643651.3659894)
2023
- Al lelah, T. et al. 2023. Machine learning detection of cloud services abuse as C&C Infrastructure. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy 3 (4), pp.858-881. (10.3390/jcp3040039)
- Al lelah, T. et al. 2023. Abuse of cloud-based and public legitimate services as command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure: a systematic literature review. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy 3 (3), pp.558-590. (10.3390/jcp3030027)
2022
- Subahi, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2022. Automated approach to analyze IoT privacy policies. In: Cagáňová, D. and Horňáková, N. eds. Industry 4.0 Challenges in Smart Cities. Cham: Springer. , pp.163-186. (10.1007/978-3-030-92968-8_12)
- Theodorakopoulos, G. et al. 2022. On-the-fly privacy for location histograms. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 19 (1), pp.566-578. (10.1109/TDSC.2020.2980270)
2021
- Bostanipour, B. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2021. Joint obfuscation of location and its semantic information for privacy protection. Computers and Security 107 102310. (10.1016/j.cose.2021.102310)
- Murakonda, S. K. , Shokri, R. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2021. Quantifying the privacy risks of learning high-dimensional graphical models. Presented at: 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) virtual 13-15 April 2021. , pp.2287-2295.
2020
- Alodhyani, F. , Theodorakopoulos, G. and Reinecke, P. 2020. Password managers—it’s all about trust and transparency. Future Internet 12 (11) 189. (10.3390/fi12110189)
- Alrayes, F. , Abdelmoty, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2020. Modelling perceived risks to personal privacy from location disclosure on online social networks. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 34 (1), pp.150-176. (10.1080/13658816.2019.1654109)
- Barati, M. et al. 2020. GDPR compliance verification in Internet of Things. IEEE Access 8 , pp.119697-119709. (10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3005509)
- Barati, M. , Theodorakopoulos, G. and Rana, O. 2020. Automating GDPR compliance verification for cloud-hosted services. Presented at: 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC) Virtual, Canada 20-22 October 2020. 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC). IEEE. , pp.1-6. (10.1109/ISNCC49221.2020.9297309)
- Loukides, G. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2020. Location histogram privacy by sensitive location hiding and target histogram avoidance/resemblance. Knowledge and Information Systems 62 , pp.2613-2651. (10.1007/s10115-019-01432-4)
- Pratomo, B. , Burnap, P. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2020. BLATTA: early exploit setection on network traffic with recurrent neural networks. Security and Communication Networks 2020 8826038. (10.1155/2020/8826038)
- Xu, Y. et al. 2020. A flexible n/2 adversary node resistant and halting recoverable blockchain sharding protocol. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 32 (19) e5773. (10.1002/cpe.5773)
2019
- Anthi, E. et al. 2019. A supervised intrusion detection system for smart home IoT devices. IEEE Internet of Things 6 (5), pp.9042-9053. (10.1109/JIOT.2019.2926365)
- Subahi, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2019. Detecting IoT user behavior and sensitive information in encrypted IoT -app traffic. Sensors 19 (21) 4777. (10.3390/s19214777)
2018
- Anthi, E. et al. 2018. EclipseIoT: A secure and adaptive hub for the Internet of Things. Computers and Security 78 , pp.477-490. (10.1016/j.cose.2018.07.016)
- Subahi, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2018. Ensuring compliance of IoT devices with their Privacy Policy Agreement. Presented at: 2018 IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud) Barcelona, Spain 6-8 August. 2018 IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud). Barcelona, Spain: IEEE. , pp.100-107. (10.1109/FiCloud.2018.00022)
2017
- Anthi, E. et al. 2017. Secure data sharing and analysis in cloud-based energy management systems. Presented at: Second EAI International Conference, IISSC 2017 and CN4IoT 2017 Brindisi, Italy 20-21 April 2017. Published in: Longo, A. et al., IISSC 2017, CN4IoT 2017: Cloud Infrastructures, Services, and IoT Systems for Smart Cities. Vol. 189.Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Springer. , pp.228-242. (10.1007/978-3-319-67636-4_24)
- Anthi, E. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2017. Sensitive data in Smartphone Applications: Where does it go? Can it be intercepted?. Technical Report.
- Mamais, S. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2017. Behavioural verification: preventing report fraud in decentralized advert distribution systems. Future Internet 9 (4) 88. (10.3390/fi9040088)
- Mamais, S. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2017. Private and secure distribution of targeted advertisements to mobile phones. Future Internet 9 (2) 16. (10.3390/fi9020016)
- Theodorakopoulos, G. 2017. An open framework for flexible plug-in privacy mechanisms in crowdsensing applications. Presented at: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops) Kona, HI, USA 13-17 March 2017. Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), 2017 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE. , pp.237-242. (10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917564)
2016
- Galini, T. et al., 2016. On the inference of user paths from anonymized mobility data. Presented at: 1st IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Saarbrücken, Germany 21-24 March 2016.
- Shokri, R. , Theodorakopoulos, G. and Troncoso, C. 2016. Privacy games along location traces: a game-theoretic framework for optimizing location privacy. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security 19 (4) 11. (10.1145/3009908)
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. Published in: 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
- Petri, I. et al. 2014. A broker based consumption mechanism for social clouds. International Journal of Cloud Computing 2 (1), pp.45-57.
- Shokri, R. et al., 2014. Hiding in the mobile crowd: location privacy through collaboration. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 11 (3), pp.266-279. (10.1109/TDSC.2013.57)
2013
- Theodorakopoulos, G. , Le Boudec, J. Y. and Baras, J. S. 2013. Selfish response to epidemic propagation. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 58 (2), pp.363-376. (10.1109/TAC.2012.2209949)
2012
- Shokri, R. et al., 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. Published in: 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. et al., 2011. Quantifying location privacy. Presented at: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) Berkeley, CA, USA 22-25 May 2011. Published in: 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
- Baras, J. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2010. Path problems in networks. Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks Morgan & Claypool Publishers. (10.2200/S00245ED1V01Y201001CNT003)
2008
- Theodorakopoulos, G. and Baras, J. 2008. Game theoretic modeling of malicious users in collaborative networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 26 (7), pp.1317-1327. (10.1109/JSAC.2008.080928)
2007
- Theodorakopoulos, G. 2007. Robust network trust establishment for collaborative applications and protocols. PhD Thesis , University of Maryland, College Park.
2006
- Theodorakopoulos, G. and Baras, J. S. 2006. On trust models and trust evaluation metrics for ad hoc networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 24 (2), pp.318-328. (10.1109/JSAC.2005.861390)
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 2004Published in: 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
- Al lelah, T. et al. 2023. Machine learning detection of cloud services abuse as C&C Infrastructure. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy 3 (4), pp.858-881. (10.3390/jcp3040039)
- Al lelah, T. et al. 2023. Abuse of cloud-based and public legitimate services as command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure: a systematic literature review. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy 3 (3), pp.558-590. (10.3390/jcp3030027)
- Alali, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2025. Partial fake speech attacks in the real world using deepfake audio. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy 5 (1) 6. (10.3390/jcp5010006)
- Alodhyani, F. , Theodorakopoulos, G. and Reinecke, P. 2020. Password managers—it’s all about trust and transparency. Future Internet 12 (11) 189. (10.3390/fi12110189)
- Alrayes, F. , Abdelmoty, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2020. Modelling perceived risks to personal privacy from location disclosure on online social networks. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 34 (1), pp.150-176. (10.1080/13658816.2019.1654109)
- Anthi, E. et al. 2018. EclipseIoT: A secure and adaptive hub for the Internet of Things. Computers and Security 78 , pp.477-490. (10.1016/j.cose.2018.07.016)
- Anthi, E. et al. 2019. A supervised intrusion detection system for smart home IoT devices. IEEE Internet of Things 6 (5), pp.9042-9053. (10.1109/JIOT.2019.2926365)
- Barati, M. et al. 2020. GDPR compliance verification in Internet of Things. IEEE Access 8 , pp.119697-119709. (10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3005509)
- Bian, P. et al., 2025. Optimal string sanitization against strategic attackers. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 20 , pp.11462-11476. (10.1109/TIFS.2025.3610245)
- Bostanipour, B. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2021. Joint obfuscation of location and its semantic information for privacy protection. Computers and Security 107 102310. (10.1016/j.cose.2021.102310)
- Loukides, G. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2020. Location histogram privacy by sensitive location hiding and target histogram avoidance/resemblance. Knowledge and Information Systems 62 , pp.2613-2651. (10.1007/s10115-019-01432-4)
- Mamais, S. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2017. Behavioural verification: preventing report fraud in decentralized advert distribution systems. Future Internet 9 (4) 88. (10.3390/fi9040088)
- Mamais, S. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2017. Private and secure distribution of targeted advertisements to mobile phones. Future Internet 9 (2) 16. (10.3390/fi9020016)
- Petri, I. et al. 2014. A broker based consumption mechanism for social clouds. International Journal of Cloud Computing 2 (1), pp.45-57.
- Pratomo, B. , Burnap, P. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2020. BLATTA: early exploit setection on network traffic with recurrent neural networks. Security and Communication Networks 2020 8826038. (10.1155/2020/8826038)
- Shokri, R. et al., 2014. Hiding in the mobile crowd: location privacy through collaboration. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 11 (3), pp.266-279. (10.1109/TDSC.2013.57)
- Shokri, R. , Theodorakopoulos, G. and Troncoso, C. 2016. Privacy games along location traces: a game-theoretic framework for optimizing location privacy. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security 19 (4) 11. (10.1145/3009908)
- Song, R. et al. 2025. Digital roads and data ethics: Exploring the road users’ perspective. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 115 103330. (10.1016/j.trf.2025.103330)
- Subahi, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2019. Detecting IoT user behavior and sensitive information in encrypted IoT -app traffic. Sensors 19 (21) 4777. (10.3390/s19214777)
- Theodorakopoulos, G. et al. 2022. On-the-fly privacy for location histograms. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 19 (1), pp.566-578. (10.1109/TDSC.2020.2980270)
- Theodorakopoulos, G. and Baras, J. S. 2006. On trust models and trust evaluation metrics for ad hoc networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 24 (2), pp.318-328. (10.1109/JSAC.2005.861390)
- Theodorakopoulos, G. and Baras, J. 2008. Game theoretic modeling of malicious users in collaborative networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 26 (7), pp.1317-1327. (10.1109/JSAC.2008.080928)
- Theodorakopoulos, G. , Le Boudec, J. Y. and Baras, J. S. 2013. Selfish response to epidemic propagation. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 58 (2), pp.363-376. (10.1109/TAC.2012.2209949)
- Xu, Y. et al. 2020. A flexible n/2 adversary node resistant and halting recoverable blockchain sharding protocol. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 32 (19) e5773. (10.1002/cpe.5773)
Book sections
- Subahi, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2022. Automated approach to analyze IoT privacy policies. In: Cagáňová, D. and Horňáková, N. eds. Industry 4.0 Challenges in Smart Cities. Cham: Springer. , pp.163-186. (10.1007/978-3-030-92968-8_12)
Books
- Baras, J. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2010. Path problems in networks. Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks Morgan & Claypool Publishers. (10.2200/S00245ED1V01Y201001CNT003)
Conferences
- Al Lelah, T. et al. 2024. Detecting the abuse of cloud services for C&C infrastructure through dynamic analysis and machine learning. Presented at: 2024 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC) Washington DC, USA 22-25 October 2024. 2024 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC). IEEE. , pp.1-7. (10.1109/isncc62547.2024.10758940)
- Alali, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2024. An RFP dataset for Real, Fake, and Partially fake audio detection. Presented at: Springer 9th International Conference on Cyber Security, Privacy in Communication Networks (ICCS2023) Cardiff, Wales, UK 11-12 December 2023. AI Applications in Cyber Security and Communication Networks. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems Vol. 1032. Springer(10.1007/978-981-97-3973-8_1)
- Alali, A. , Theodorakopoulos, G. and Emad, A. 2025. Efficient classification of partially faked audio using deep learning. Presented at: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Crete, Greece 4-6 August 2025. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). IEEE. , pp.963-968. (10.1109/CSR64739.2025.11130153)
- Alali, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2024. Review of existing methods for generating and detecting fake and partially fake audio. Presented at: 10th ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics (IWSPA 2024) Porto, Portugal 21 June 2024. IWSPA '24: Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics. New York, NY, USA: ACM. , pp.35-36. (10.1145/3643651.3659894)
- Anthi, E. et al. 2017. Secure data sharing and analysis in cloud-based energy management systems. Presented at: Second EAI International Conference, IISSC 2017 and CN4IoT 2017 Brindisi, Italy 20-21 April 2017. Published in: Longo, A. et al., IISSC 2017, CN4IoT 2017: Cloud Infrastructures, Services, and IoT Systems for Smart Cities. Vol. 189.Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Springer. , pp.228-242. (10.1007/978-3-319-67636-4_24)
- Barati, M. , Theodorakopoulos, G. and Rana, O. 2020. Automating GDPR compliance verification for cloud-hosted services. Presented at: 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC) Virtual, Canada 20-22 October 2020. 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC). IEEE. , pp.1-6. (10.1109/ISNCC49221.2020.9297309)
- Galini, T. et al., 2016. On the inference of user paths from anonymized mobility data. Presented at: 1st IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Saarbrücken, Germany 21-24 March 2016.
- Kurt, F. et al. 2025. POSTER: Automating ICS Malware Analysis with MITRE ATT&CK. Presented at: ACM AsiaCCS Hanoi, Vietnam 25-29 August 2025. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.1806-1808. (10.1145/3708821.3735345)
- Murakonda, S. K. , Shokri, R. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2021. Quantifying the privacy risks of learning high-dimensional graphical models. Presented at: 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) virtual 13-15 April 2021. , pp.2287-2295.
- Shokri, R. et al., 2011. Quantifying location privacy. Presented at: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) Berkeley, CA, USA 22-25 May 2011. Published in: 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)
- Shokri, R. et al., 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. Published in: 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)
- Subahi, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2018. Ensuring compliance of IoT devices with their Privacy Policy Agreement. Presented at: 2018 IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud) Barcelona, Spain 6-8 August. 2018 IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud). Barcelona, Spain: IEEE. , pp.100-107. (10.1109/FiCloud.2018.00022)
- Theodorakopoulos, G. 2017. An open framework for flexible plug-in privacy mechanisms in crowdsensing applications. Presented at: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops) Kona, HI, USA 13-17 March 2017. Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), 2017 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE. , pp.237-242. (10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917564)
- 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. Published in: 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)
- 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 2004Published in: 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)
Monographs
- Anthi, E. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2017. Sensitive data in Smartphone Applications: Where does it go? Can it be intercepted?. Technical Report.
Thesis
- Theodorakopoulos, G. 2007. Robust network trust establishment for collaborative applications and protocols. PhD Thesis , University of Maryland, College Park.
Teaching
I teach cryptography, malware analysis, and penetration testing. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
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
- 2021 - IEEE Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, for "Quantifying Location Privacy"
- 2012 - Runner-up for the PET Award (Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies), for "Quantifying Location Privacy"
- 2007 - IEEE Communication Society Leonard G. Abraham prize, for "On trust models and trust evaluation metrics for ad hoc networks"
- 2004 - Best Paper award at the ACM Workshop on Wireless Security, for "Trust evaluation in ad-hoc networks"
Professional memberships
Member of the IEEE
Academic positions
- 2022 - present: Reader, Cardiff University, School of Computer Science and Informatics
- 2018 - 2022: 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
Turki Al Lelah Al Lelah
Abdulazeez Alali
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Cybersecurity and privacy
- Data security and protection
