Research

Areas of active investigation and past contributions. See my publications for published work.

Current Research

Deception

  • Active Defenses and Deception-based Security
  • Bot Behavior and Analysis
  • Honeypots, Honey-x elements, and Decoy-based Defenses
  • Moving Target Defenses (MTDs)

Web Security

  • Web Application Security (CMS, LAMP stacks)
  • Authentication and Intrusion Detection
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Large scale In-the-Wild Studies

Past Research

Malware Analysis, Detection and Classification

  • Static and Dynamic Analysis
  • Reverse Engineering
  • API Call Graph-based Detection
  • Machine Learning & Deep Neural Networks Detection and Classification
  • Deobfuscation Techniques
  • Entropy & Cyclomatic Complexity

Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

  • Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems (IDS, IPS)
  • Deep Neural Network IDS
  • Signature-based & Anomaly-based Detection
  • Next Generation Firewalls
  • Cyber-Physical Systems Security

Online Misinformation and Rumor Propagation

  • Location and Language Independent Fake Rumor Detection
  • Graph-based Analysis of Rumor Propagation
  • Epidemiological Modeling of Rumor Spread
  • Development of Rumor Detection Tool
  • Improvement on State of the Art

Virtual Reality Surgery

  • VR Training System for Urogynecological Surgery
  • Medical Imagery (CT, MRI) to VR environment
  • Training Environment for Surgeon Training
  • Generative Adversarial Networks applications in Cybersecurity
Best Video Award AUGS/IUGA 2022

Other Research Interests

Graph Theory

Graph Neural Networks

IoT Edge Computing Security

Medical Data Privacy & HIPAA

Research Collaborations & Industry

Idaho National Laboratory (DoE)

While a member of the VCU Modern Heuristics Research Group, collaborated with the Idaho National Laboratory regarding ICS and SCADA security for the DoE (Solar and Wind Energy).

  • Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
  • Cyber and Physical Anomalies Detection
  • Human-In-the-Loop (HIL) Security Systems

University of Patras Malware Team