Research areas I am currently working on (publications)







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


Research areas I have worked on (publications)


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
  • Cyper-Physical Systems Security

  • 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

  • Best Video Abstract Presentation at AUGS/IUGA 2022
  • VR Training System for Urogynecological Surgery
  • Mediacl Imagery (CT,MRI) to VR environemtn
  • Training Environment for Surgeon Training
  • Generative Adversarial Networks applications in Cybersecurity

Other Research Interests

  • Graph Theory
  • Graph neural Networks
  • IoT Edge Computing Security
  • Medical data privacy and HIPAA

Research-based software solutions I have worked on (patents and industry)


While a member of the VCU Modern Heuristics Research Group, I 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


Security Research as a member of the University of Patras Malware Team