Computer Science Security

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Name: Georgios S. Kontaxis

Address: Department of Computer Science

Columbia University

**** ********* ******, *.*. 0401

New York, NY 10027-7003

email: ********@**.********.***

homepage: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ kontaxis/

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Research interests

Web Security, Privacy

Network Security

Systems Security

Applied Cryptography

Education

Sep. 2011 - Today Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science

Columbia University, NY, USA.

Advisor: Prof. Angelos D. Keromytis

Sep. 2009 - June 2011 M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science

University of Crete, Greece.

Thesis: A lightweight, censorship-

resistant Web access architecture

Advisor: Prof. Evangelos P. Markatos

Sep. 2003 - June 2009 B.Sc. Degree in Computer Science

University of Crete, Greece.

Thesis: Advanced intrusion detection using

shadow honeypots and network-level emulation

Advisor: Prof. Evangelos P. Markatos

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Professional Experience

Sep. 2011 - Today Ph.D. ResearcherNetwork Security Lab,

Computer Science Department,

Columbia University.

Supervisor: Prof. Angelos D. Keromytis

Sep. 2009 - Aug. 2011Graduate Research Assistant

Distributed Computing Systems Lab, Institute

of Computer Science, Foundation for Research

and Technology Hellas ICS-FORTHfl

Research on Web security & Honeypots

Participation in the EU-funded projects

NoAH Network of Affined Honeypotsfl,

WOMBAT malware collection and analysisfl and

SysSec network of excellence on systems securityfl.

Supervisor: Prof. Evangelos P. Markatos

Feb. 2006 - Aug. 2009Research Assistant Trainee

Distributed Computing Systems Lab, Institute

of Computer Science, Foundation for Research

and Technology Hellas ICS-FORTHfl

Research on Honeypots & Intrusion detection

Participation in the EU-funded project NoAH.

Supervisor: Prof. Evangelos P. Markatos

Feb. 2005 - Feb. 2006Systems Administrator

Network Operations Center, University of Crete

Teaching Experience

Teaching assistant for the following courses:

COMS-W4180 Network Security Spring 2012fl

Prof. Angelos D. Keromytis, Columbia University

CS-255 Programming Lab Spring 2011fl

Prof. Angelos Bilas, University of Crete

CS-345 Operating Systems Fall 2010fl

Prof. Evangelos P. Markatos, University of Crete

CS-459 Internet Measurements Spring 2010fl

Prof. Evangelos P. Markatos, University of Crete

CS-457 Information Systems Security

Fall 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006fl

Prof. Harry Manifavas, University of Crete

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Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Conference and Workshop papers

1. Georgios Kontaxis, Michalis Polychronakis and Evangelos P. Markatos.

Privacy-Preserving Social Plugins. In Proceedings of the 21st USENIX

Security Symposium. August 2012, Bellevue, WA.

Acceptance rate: 19.4% [43/222]fl

2. Georgios Kontaxis, Michalis Polychronakis and Evangelos P. Markatos.

SudoWeb: Minimizing Information Disclosure to Third Parties

in Single Sign-On Platforms. In Proceedings of the 14th Information

Security Conference ISCfl. October 2011, Xi an, China.

Best Student Paper Award. Acceptance rate: 26.3% [25/95]fl

3. Georgios Kontaxis, Iasonas Polakis, Michalis Polychronakis and Evan-

gelos P. Markatos. dead.drop: URL-based Stealthy Messaging. In

Proceeedings of 7th European Conference on Computer Network Defense

EC2NDfl. September 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Acceptance rate: 32% [8/25]fl

4. Georgios Kontaxis, Demetris Antoniades, Iasonas Polakis and Evangelos

P. Markatos. An Empirical Study on the Security of Cross-Domain

Policies in Rich Internet Applications. In Proceedings of the 4th Eu-

ropean Workshop on System Security EuroSecfl, co-located with EuroSys.

April 2011, Salzburg, Austria.

5. Demetris Antoniades, Iasonas Polakis, Georgios Kontaxis, Elias Athana-

sopoulos, Sotiris Ioannidis, Evangelos P. Markatos and Thomas Karagian-

nis. we.b: The Web of Short URLs. In Proceedings of the 20th Inter-

national World Wide Web Conference WWWfl. March 2011, Hyderabad,

India. Acceptance rate for full papers: 12.4% [82/658]fl

6. Georgios Kontaxis, Iasonas Polakis, Sotiris Ioannidis and Evangelos P.

Markatos. Detecting Social Network Profile Cloning. In Proceedings

of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Security and Social Networking

SESOCfl, co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive

Computing and Communications PerComfl. March 2011, Seattle, USA.

Acceptance rate: 26.9% [7/26]fl

7. Iasonas Polakis, Georgios Kontaxis, Spiros Antonatos, Eleni Gessiou,

Thanasis Petsas and Evangelos P. Markatos. Using Social Networks to

Harvest Email Addresses. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop

on Privacy in the Electronic Society WPESfl, co-located with the ACM

Conference on Computer and Communications Security CCSfl. October

2010, Chicago IL, USA. Acceptance rate for full papers: 20.8% [10/48]fl

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Awards

2010 ACM CCS Student Travel Grant

Fellowships

Sep. 2011 - Today Graduate Research Assistantship,

Columbia University, NY, USA.

Dec. 2009 - Aug. 2011Graduate Research Fellowship,

FORTH ICS, Greece.

Jun. 2006 - Sep. 2009 Undergraduate Research Fellowship,

FORTH ICS, Greece.

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