Nektarios Tsoutsos

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He holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from New York University, the M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Columbia University, as well as the five-year diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.

Research Interests

His interests include applied cryptography, hardware security, as well as private and trustworthy computation.

Awards

Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award for doctoral research showing the greatest promise (NYU)

Deborah Rosenthal Award for outstanding performance on the Ph.D. Qualification Exam (NYU)

1st Place Award at CSAW Embedded Security Challenge '13 for the design of stealthy hardware Trojan horses to bypass the protections of FANCI (CCS '13)

Advisee Honor: 1st Place Award at CSAW Embedded Security Challenge '18 for designing robust covert channels to exfiltrate sensitive data using IoT smart bulbs