About me

I am a Graduate Research Assistant at the Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Cyber Operations Enquiry and Unconventional Sensing (COEUS), working on cutting-edge network security and software development projects. I am pursuing my Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, focusing on computer and network security.

I have over two years of professional experience as an Information Technology Engineer at Sigmatech Greece, where I developed and maintained the company's web services. I also served as the Vice Chair of the IEEE Student Branch at the University of Western Macedonia, where I organized and participated in several workshops and seminars. I have multiple honors and awards for my innovative and entrepreneurial ideas, such as the Youth Entrepreneurship Summer Program and the Junior Achievement Greece.

I am proficient in various cybersecurity techniques, programming languages, and software development tools. I am passionate about learning new technologies, solving complex problems, and contributing to advancing science and society.

What i'm doing

  • Computer Security

  • Software Engineering

  • Computer Networks

  • Machine Learning

  • DevOps Development

Resume

Education

  1. MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Georgia Institute of Technology August 2022 — August 2024
    • Minor: Computer Science
    • Related Coursework: Network Security, Enterprise Cybersecurity Management, Machine Learning, Statistical Machine Learning, Computer Communication Networks, Advanced Programming Techniques

  2. BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    University of Western Macedonia September 2016 — July 2021

    • Comparison of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for the Vehicle Routing Problem (Thesis)

    • Developed an Inventory and Invoicing with Java and SQL (Course Project)

Experience

  1. Graduate Research Assistant

    Georgia Institute of Technology August 2022 — Present

    • Developed, deployed and managed a system that collects and analyzes ≈7.5M malicious domains and IPs from Open-Source Intelligence Feeds daily.
    • Developed and deployed a Docker container that extracts network indicators from network traffic generated by sandbox malware execution.
    • Reproduced public research and improved the accuracy of a malicious/compromised domain classifier from 92% to 94%.
    • Aided in the design of a tool that clusters ≈2M alerts daily generated from Palo Alto's XDR firewall and visualized the clusters using Scikit-learn and Neo4j.
    • Clustered and visualized network infrastructure using Scikit-learn and Neo4j.
    • Built and deployed an REST API system, using Flask, that extracts statistical features and generates network attack scenario graphs from an Elastic database network flow records and Zeek logs.

  2. IT Engineer

    Sp. Skafidas & Co. July 2017 — July 2021

    • Developed and maintained the homepage and e-shop of the company..
    • Provided IT support services and maintained the company's Web Services.

  3. Lab Assistant

    University of Western Macedonia February 2018 — June 2018

    • Set up the experiments and assisted in the course "Digital Communications" lab sessions.

  4. IT Support

    University of Western Macedonia November 2017 — June 2018

    • Provided IT support for the School of ECE during the undergraduate practice course.

Publications

  1. Discovering and Measuring CDNs Prone to Domain Fronting

    Subramani Karthika, Perdisci Roberto, Skafidas Pierros-Christos, Antonakakis Manos

    In WWW '24: Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, Signapore, May 2024

My skills

  • Cybersecurity

    Network Security, Governance, NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, Threat Intelligence, Capture the Flag (CTF), Vulnerability Assessment, Zeek, Snort, Surricata, Wireshark, Nmap, Metasploit, Nessus
    Machine Learning

    Scikit-Learn, Feature Extraction, Numpy, Pandas
    Data Science

    Python, Data Mining, Numpy, Pandas
    Cloud Platforms

    Microsoft Azure
    Programming Languages

    Python, C++, C, Java, Bash, PHP, SQL, MATLAB, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
    Software Tools

    Elastic, Flask, Docker, Kubernetes, Neo4j, WordPress
    Languages

    English (fluent, C2), French (intermediate, B2), Greek (native)

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