Vasilios is Principal Research Scientist and Co-Lead at The Alan Turing Institute's AI for Cyberdefence (AICD) Research Centre. His research interests lie in the intersection of Systems Security and Machine Learning (i.e., ML4Sec). This includes autonomous network defence, large traffic analysis models, and active & adaptive adversaries. He is passionate about deep reinforcement learning, transformers and their applications in security problems and holds a PhD in Computer Security.
His research has been published in top-tier academic and industrial venues such as the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), NeurIPS, the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETs), the Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) etc. Moreover, he has frequented the top venues for security practitioners (BlackHat US and BlackHat EU, Defcon, the Chaos Communication Congress) and presented AICD's research results. He was listed in the 10-of-200 young researchers list by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, and is a recipient of the Werner Romberg Grant, as well as a finalist at the CSAW Europe 2018 Applied Research Competition.
