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44
Citations
8952
World Ranking
7528
National Ranking
3273

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to network coding systems and network measurement
  • 2020 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Athina Markopoulou is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within computer science and social sciences, with a primary focus on privacy, security, and data protection.

Their work is distributed across various subfields, including artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, signal processing, computer networks and communications, and information systems.

Markopoulou's research topics include:

  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Cryptography and Data Security

Their publication record features contributions to several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 16 publications
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies with 6 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing with 3 publications
  • Emerging Science Journal
  • ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Markopoulou are:

  • FedPacket: A Federated Learning Approach to Mobile Packet Classification, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • Industrial, Collaborative and Mobile Robotics in Latin America: Review of Mechatronic Technologies for Advanced Automation, 2023, Emerging Science Journal
  • The TV is Smart and Full of Trackers: Measuring Smart TV Advertising and Tracking, 2020, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • NoMoATS: Towards Automatic Detection of Mobile Tracking, 2020, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Privacy by Projection: Federated Population Density Estimation by Projecting on Random Features, 2023, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Collaborations have been an element in their research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Rahmadi Trimananda
  • Evita Bakopoulou
  • Anastasia Shuba
  • Hao Cui
  • Salma Elmalaki

Throughout their career, Athina Markopoulou has received formal recognitions such as becoming an IEEE Fellow in 2021 for contributions to network coding systems and network measurement, as well as an ACM Senior Member in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs

    Minas Gjoka;Maciej Kurant;Carter T. Butts;Athina Markopoulou

  • Characterization of failures in an IP backbone

    A. Markopoulou;G. Iannaccone;S. Bhattacharyya;Chen-Nee Chuah

  • Characterization of failures in an operational IP backbone network

    Athina Markopoulou;Gianluca Iannaccone;Supratik Bhattacharyya;Chen-Nee Chuah

  • Demo: Microcast: cooperative video streaming on smartphones

    Lorenzo Keller;Anh Le;Blerim Cici;Hulya Seferoglu

  • Practical Recommendations on Crawling Online Social Networks

    M. Gjoka;M. Kurant;C. T. Butts;A. Markopoulou

  • Assessment of VoIP quality over Internet backbones

    A.P. Markopoulou;F.A. Tobagi;M.J. Karam

  • Assessing the quality of voice communications over Internet backbones

    Athina P. Markopoulou;Fouad A. Tobagi;Mansour J. Karam

  • Wireless Network Coding: Opportunities & Challenges

    Christina Fragouli;Dina Katabi;Athina Markopoulou;Muriel Medard

  • PhishDef: URL names say it all

    Anh Le;Athina Markopoulou;Michalis Faloutsos

  • On the bias of BFS (Breadth First Search)

    Maciej Kurant;Athina Markopoulou;Patrick Thiran

  • Towards Unbiased BFS Sampling

    M. Kurant;A. Markopoulou;P. Thiran

  • Poking facebook: characterization of osn applications

    Minas Gjoka;Michael Sirivianos;Athina Markopoulou;Xiaowei Yang

  • Walking on a graph with a magnifying glass: stratified sampling via weighted random walks

    Maciej Kurant;Minas Gjoka;Carter T. Butts;Athina Markopoulou

  • I 2 NC: Intra- and inter-session network coding for unicast flows in wireless networks

    Hulya Seferoglu;Athina Markopoulou;K. K. Ramakrishnan

  • MicroCast: cooperative video streaming on smartphones

    Lorenzo Keller;Anh Le;Blerim Cici;Hulya Seferoglu

  • Assessing the potential of ride-sharing using mobile and social data: a tale of four cities

    Blerim Cici;Athina Markopoulou;Enrique Frias-Martinez;Nikolaos Laoutaris

  • Multigraph Sampling of Online Social Networks

    M. Gjoka;C. T. Butts;M. Kurant;A. Markopoulou

  • A Walk in Facebook: Uniform Sampling of Users in Online Social Networks

    Minas Gjoka;Maciej Kurant;Carter T. Butts;Athina Markopoulou

  • Opportunistic network coding for video streaming over wireless

    Hulya Seferoglu;Athina Markopoulou

  • Packet-Level Signatures for Smart Home Devices

    Rahmadi Trimananda;Janus Varmarken;Athina Markopoulou;Brian Demsky

  • Network Coding Meets Multimedia: A Review

    Enrico Magli;Mea Wang;Pascal Frossard;Athina Markopoulou

Frequent Co-Authors

Carter T. Butts
Carter T. Butts University of California, Irvine
Christina Fragouli
Christina Fragouli University of California, Los Angeles
Fouad A. Tobagi
Fouad A. Tobagi Stanford University
Syed A. Jafar
Syed A. Jafar University of California, Irvine
Alexandros G. Dimakis
Alexandros G. Dimakis The University of Texas at Austin
Sriram Vishwanath
Sriram Vishwanath The University of Texas at Austin
John G. Apostolopoulos
John G. Apostolopoulos Cisco Systems (United States)
Nikolaos Laoutaris
Nikolaos Laoutaris Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies
Christophe Diot
Christophe Diot Google (United States)
Nicholas Bambos
Nicholas Bambos Stanford University

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