Nektarios Tsoutsos
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.
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Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award for doctoral research showing the greatest promise (NYU)
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Deborah Rosenthal Award for outstanding performance on the Ph.D. Qualification Exam (NYU)
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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)
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Advisee Honor: 1st Place Award at CSAW Embedded Security Challenge '18 for designing robust covert channels to exfiltrate sensitive data using IoT smart bulbs
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Advisee Honor: 1st Place Award at ECE Research Day '21 for privacy-preserving neural network inference
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Advisee Honor: Graduate Faculty Award on Computer Systems & Networks '21
