About me

My name is Constantinos Patsakis and currently I'm an associate professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus and adjunct researcher at the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) of Athena Research and Innovation Centre.

My first degree is in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece and then I continued with a M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London. I obtained my PhD in Security from the Department of Informatics of University of Piraeus. My main areas of research include cryptography, security, privacy and data anonymization.

In the past I worked as Researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, as a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, and Senior Researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).

My publications can be found on Google Scholar and DBLP.

I'm an editor of several journals, including:

  • Computers and Security
  • International Journal of Information Security
  • Scientific Reports
  • Blockchain: Research and Applications


In this academic year I will be teaching the following courses:

Undergraduates

  • Information & Code theory
  • Security Governance
  • Introduction to Computer Science
  • Cryptography

Postgraduates

  • Digital Forensics & Malware Analysis
  • Cryptographic protocols
  • Cryptography
  • Introduction to Computer Science
  • Secure programming
  • Blockchain development

For more info about the courses, students may refer to our GUNet. Dissertation topics can be found here.

Latest news

Some recent news regarding publications, projects, events, etc.

R&D projects

A consolidated list of recent R&D projects I have been participating in the past few years.
ALUNA
ALUNA

ISFP-2021-AG-CYBER

  • Role: Principal Investigator
LAZARUS
LAZARUS

HORIZON-CL3-2021-CS-01

  • Role: Coordinator
CTC
Cut the Cord

ISFP-2020-AG-CYBER

  • Role: Principal Investigator
heroes
HEROES

H2020-FCT-01-2020

  • Role: Principal Investigator
heroes
GLASS

H2020-DT-GOVERNANCE-05-2020

  • Role: Researcher
heroes
LOCARD

FCT-02-2018-2019

  • Role: Coordinator
CyberSec4Europe
CyberSec4Europe

SU-ICT-03-2018

  • Role: Researcher
melity
ΜΕΛΙΤΥ

ΕΠΑνΕΚ T1ΕΔΚ-01958

  • Role: Researcher
inteltriage
IntelTriage

ΕΠΑνΕΚ

  • Role: Researcher
cost
Digital forensics: evidence analysis via intelligent systems and practices (DigForASP)

COST Action CA17124

  • Role: Substitute MC
cost
YAKSHA

ICT-39-2016-2017

  • Role: Principal investigator
cost
SAURON

CIP-01-2016-2017

  • Role: Researcher
practicies
PRACTICIES

SEC-06-FCT-2016

  • Role: Principal Investigator
operando
OPERANDO

DS-01-2014

  • Role: Principal Investigator
mitigate
MITIGATE

DS-6-2014

  • Role: Researcher
mitigate
CRYPTACUS

COST Action IC1403

  • Role: Substitute MC
SIMPATIC
SIMPATIC

ICT RECERCAIXA'12

  • Role: Researcher
ideac
Inter-cultural Dimension for European Active Citizenship (IDEA-C)

Citizens Strand2

  • Role: Researcher
TACTICS
TACTICS

FP7

  • Role: Researcher

Datasets


Malicious MS Office documents dataset

A dataset with several thousands of tagged malicious and benign MS Office documents with dynamic features (e.g. VBA, DDE) and their extracted static features in CSV format.

Social Live Streaming Service Grooming dataset

A large-scale dataset of the messages exchanged publicly by the streamers and viewers during the live broadcasts of users identified as adult content producers from the LiveMe platform, a major Social Live Streaming Service (SLSS). The dataset comprises 39,382,838 chat messages exchanged by 1,428,284 users, in the context of 293,271 live broadcasts during a period of approximately two years, from July 2016 to June 2018. The analysis of this dataset can be found in our paper "Large-scale analysis of grooming in modern social networks" (arXiv:2004.08205 [cs.SI]).

Dictionary-based DGAs dataset

This repository contains a dataset for the research of domain generation algorithms (DGAs) and machine learning. More precisely, it targets dictionary-based DGAs. The associated paper is the following:
Constantinos Patsakis, Fran Casino: "Exploiting Statistical and Structural Features for the Detection of Domain Generation Algorithms", Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2021.

The HYDRA dataset

This repository contains a large dataset for the research of domain generation algorithms (DGAs) and machine learning. At the time of writing the dataset contains more than 90m of domains and more than 100 families. The associated paper is the following:
Fran Casino, Nikolaos Lykousas, Ivan Homoliak, Constantinos Patsakis, Julio Hernandez-Castro: "Intercepting Hail Hydra: Real-Time Detection of Algorithmically Generated Domains"

Contact details

Address:

Office 540, 5th floor
Department of Informatics
University of Piraeus
80, Karaoli & Dimitriou str.
Piraeus 18534, Greece.

Phone:

+30-210-414-2261

Hours:

Will be announced once the semister schedule is published by the university.