Georgios (George) Kyriakou is a systems and operations leader with over a decade of experience building and deploying complex hardware/software systems at the intersection of research, engineering, and real-world execution. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where his research focused on wireless networks, delay analysis, and distributed systems, and he collaborated with DARPA, U.S. Army CERDEC, and AT&T Labs.
George is the co-founder and former Chief Operating Officer of BotFactory, where he led the development and deployment of advanced electronics manufacturing systems used by Fortune 500 companies, research universities, and multiple branches of the U.S. Department of Defense. He served as Principal Investigator and Program Manager on several federally funded research programs (DoD, NASA, NSF), overseeing technical execution, cross-disciplinary teams, and manufacturing scale-up.
His work spans additive manufacturing of electronics, embedded systems, hardware/software integration, and operational system design under real-world constraints. He is a co-author of multiple patents in advanced electronics manufacturing.
In addition to his industry work, George teaches graduate-level Mobile Security at NYU, where students engage in hands-on analysis of Android/iOS vulnerabilities, wireless protocols, and applied system exploitation using modern tooling and reverse-engineering techniques.
Education
M.Sc. & Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
B.S. & M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece