Michael Sirivianos is an Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering and Informatics.

He holds a PhD from Duke University since 2010. His current research interests lie in the fields of security in social networks, trust-aware design of distributed systems, device-centric authentication and federated ID, large scale data processing, and discrimination based on web personal data. He has published papers in the most influential conferences and journals of Networked Systems, including SIGCOMM, NSDI, INFOCOM, IMC and ACM Transactions on Networking.

He has extensive experience in EU-funded projects. Specifically, he is the technical manager of the ReCRED project (Horizon 2020 Innovation Action - 2014) and the coordinator of the ENCASE project (Horizon 2020 Marie Curie RISE - 2015).

He is also the co-director of the Network Systems and Science Research Laboratory and the president of CUT's Union of Academics since 2015.

For PhD studies, please see https://www.cut.ac.cy/eecei/research-opportunities/

• In-Memory Large Data Processing

• Cost Estimation and Pricing of Carrier Infrastructures

• Dynamic Scaling for Database as a Service Systems

• Detection of Fake Accounts in Online Social Networks

• Exploiting Social Networks to Assess the Credibility of Online Users

• Using Store and Forward Techniques for Delay Tolerant Bulk Transfers

• Cooperative (Peer-to-peer) Content Distribution using Cryptographic Fair Exchange as Incentives

Google Scholar profile
 

• Antigoni Parmaxi, Kostantinos Papadamou, Michael Sirivianos and Makis Stamatellatos.   E-safety in Web 2.0 learning environments: a research synthesis and implications for researchers and practitioners. HCI International 2017. pdf
   
• Ioannou, A., Blackburn J., Stringhini, G., De Cristofaro, E., Kourtellis N., Sirivianos, M., Zaphiris, P. (2017). From Risk Factors to Detection and Intervention: A Metareview and Practical Proposal for Research on Cyberbullying, in IST-Africa 2017. pdf
   
• K. Papadamou, R. Samaras, and M. Sirivianos. "Ensuring Authenticity and Fidelity of Captured Photos using Trusted Execution and Mobile Application Licensing Capabilities".  11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES). 2016. pdf
   
• Tsirtsis, N. Tsapatsoulis, M. Stamatelatos, K. Papadamou, M. Sirivianos. Cyber Security Risks for Minors: A Taxonomy and a Software Architecture. 11th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP). 2016. pdf  
   
• Savvas Zannettou, Michael Sirivianos, and Fragkiskos Papadopoulos. “Exploiting Path Diversity in Datacenters using MPTCP-aware SDN”. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). 2016. pdf  
   
• Savvas Zannettou, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, and Michael Sirivianos. “Exploiting Path Diversity with Multipath TCP”. Poster in USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI). 2015. pdf  
   
• L. Gyarmati, R. Stanojevic, M. Sirivianos and N. Laoutaris. "Quantifying the Cost of Backbone Networks". IEEE conference on computer communications workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS). 2012. pdf  
   
• M. Sirivianos, K. Kim, J.W. Gan and X. Yang. "Assessing the Veracity of Identity Assertions via OSNs".  Fourth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS). 2012. pdf   
    
• M. Sirivianos. "Toward Attack-Resistant Distributed Information Systems by Means of Social Trust". Duke PhD Thesis. 2011. pdf 
   
• Michael Sirivianos, Kyungbaek Kim and Xiaowei Yang. "SocialFilter: Introducing Social Trust to Collaborative Spam Mitigation". CollSec international conference on Collaborative methods for security and privacy. 2010. pdf
   
• M. Sirivianos, K. Kim and X. Yang. "FaceTrust: Assessing the Credibility of Online Personas via Social Networks". HotSec'09 USENIX conference on Hot topics in security. 2009. pdf
   
• M. Goodrich, M. Sirivianos, J. Solis, C. Soriente, G. Tsudik and E. Uzun. "Using Audio for Secure Device Pairing". International Journal of Security and Networks”. 2009. pdf
   
• M. Gjoka, M. Sirivianos, A. Markopoulou and X. Yang. "Poking Facebook: Characterization of OSN Applications”. WOSN '08 Proceedings of the first workshop on online social networks. 2008. pdf
   
• M. Sirivianos, D. Westhoff, F. Armknecht and J. Girao. "Non-Manipulable Aggregator Node Election Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks". Fifht International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks and Workshops. 2007. pdf 
   
• M. Sirivianos, X. Yang and S. Jarecki. "Dandelion:  Cooperative Content Distribution with Robust Incentives". Workshop on Economics of Networked Systems (NetEcon). 2006. pdf  
   
   

• A Multi-Hop and Multi-path store and forward System, Method and Product for Bulk Transfers. N. Laoutaris, M. Sirivianos, X. Yang, P. Rodriguez, WO Patent WO/2012/034,607

• Method and System for Detecting Fake Accounts in Online Social Networks, Q. Cao, M. Sirivianos and Xiaowei Yang, US Patent Granted,  2015

Enhancing Security and Privacy in the Social Web: A user-centered Approach

From Real-world Identities to Privacy-preserving and Attribute-based Credentials for Device-centric Access Control

Collaborative Spam Mitigation using Social Networks  

Efficient and Effective Sybil Detection in Online Social Networks source code

Inter-Datacenter Bulk Transfers

Crowd-vetting Online Identity Assertions via Social Networks  

Free-riding in BitTorrent with the Large View Exploit  

Loud and Clear: Human-Verifiable Authentication Based on Audio  

Dandelion: Cooperative Content Distribution with Robust Incentives  

• ReCRED: From Real-world Identities to Privacy-Preserving and Attribute-based CREDentials for Device-centric Access Control. H2020 Digital Security-Access Control. Total project funding: 4997K Euro. Funding for CUT: 525K Euro; Principal Investigator and Technical Manager of the consortium, 2015-2018.
• ENCASE: ENhancing seCurity and privAcy in the Social wEb: a user-centered approach for the protection of minors. H2020 Marie Curie RISE. Total project funding: 2160K Euro. Funding for CUT: 580K Euro; Coordinator of the consortium, 2016-2020.

TPC co-chair, HotPost 2016, co-located with MobiHoc 2016

TPC co-chair, HotPost 2015, co-located with MobiHoc 2015

Reviewer for ACM Transactions on the Web, 2014, 2015

Program committee member for IEEE INFOCOM 2015

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing 2015

Reviewer for ACM PODC  2014

Program committee member for IEEE Global Internet 2014

Program committee member for IEEE INFOCOM 2014

Program committee member for WWW 2013

Program committee member for NetEcon 2012

Program committee member for IEEE Global Internet 2012

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing  2011, 2014

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems  2011

Reviewer for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking  2011

Reviewer for ACM CoNext 2010

External reviewer for IEEE ICDCS 2011

Reviewer for Computer Networks 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014

Reviewer for Performance Evaluation Journal 2008

Web Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology 2012.

Data Structures and Algorithms, Cyprus University of Technology 2013.

Advanced and Distributed Operating Systems, Cyprus University of Technology 2013. 

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For PhD studies, please see http://www.cut.ac.cy/eecei/research-opportunities/