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Michalis Polychronakis

Michalis Polychronakis

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Computer Science

D-Index
44
Citations
6750
World Ranking
7667
National Ranking
3317

Overview

Michalis Polychronakis is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with significant contributions across subfields such as artificial intelligence, computer networks and communications, information systems, signal processing, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including network security and intrusion detection, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, advanced malware detection techniques, spam and phishing detection, security and verification in computing, IPv6 and mobility networks security, as well as software testing and debugging techniques.

They have published research in various venues, with frequent publications in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Computers & Security
  • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michalis Polychronakis include:

  • "C2C" (2022), Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • "Domain name encryption is not enough: privacy leakage via IP-based website fingerprinting" (2021), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • "How Great is the Great Firewall? Measuring China's DNS Censorship" (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Confine: Fine-grained system call filtering for container attack surface reduction" (2023), Computers & Security
  • "A Flexible Framework for Expediting Bug Finding by Leveraging Past (Mis-)Behavior to Discover New Bugs" (2020), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

Frequent collaborators include Nguyen Phong Hoang, Phillipa Gill, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Seyedhamed Ghavamnia, and Tapti Palit.

Best Publications

  • Gnort: High Performance Network Intrusion Detection Using Graphics Processors

    Giorgos Vasiliadis;Spiros Antonatos;Michalis Polychronakis;Evangelos P. Markatos

  • Smashing the Gadgets: Hindering Return-Oriented Programming Using In-place Code Randomization

    V. Pappas;M. Polychronakis;A. D. Keromytis

  • Transparent ROP exploit mitigation using indirect branch tracing

    Vasilis Pappas;Michalis Polychronakis;Angelos D. Keromytis

  • Rage against the virtual machine: hindering dynamic analysis of Android malware

    Thanasis Petsas;Giannis Voyatzis;Elias Athanasopoulos;Michalis Polychronakis

  • Size does matter: why using gadget-chain length to prevent code-reuse attacks is hard

    Enes Göktaş;Elias Athanasopoulos;Michalis Polychronakis;Herbert Bos

  • MIDeA: a multi-parallel intrusion detection architecture

    Giorgos Vasiliadis;Michalis Polychronakis;Sotiris Ioannidis

  • Regular Expression Matching on Graphics Hardware for Intrusion Detection

    Giorgos Vasiliadis;Michalis Polychronakis;Spiros Antonatos;Evangelos P. Markatos

  • Combining static and dynamic analysis for the detection of malicious documents

    Zacharias Tzermias;Giorgos Sykiotakis;Michalis Polychronakis;Evangelos P. Markatos

  • SoK: The Challenges, Pitfalls, and Perils of Using Hardware Performance Counters for Security

    Sanjeev Das;Jan Werner;Manos Antonakakis;Michalis Polychronakis

  • Network–Level polymorphic shellcode detection using emulation

    Michalis Polychronakis;Kostas G. Anagnostakis;Evangelos P. Markatos

  • Spotless Sandboxes: Evading Malware Analysis Systems Using Wear-and-Tear Artifacts

    Najmeh Miramirkhani;Mahathi Priya Appini;Nick Nikiforakis;Michalis Polychronakis

  • Emulation-based detection of non-self-contained polymorphic shellcode

    Michalis Polychronakis;Kostas G. Anagnostakis;Evangelos P. Markatos

  • Rise of the planet of the apps: a systematic study of the mobile app ecosystem

    Thanasis Petsas;Antonis Papadogiannakis;Michalis Polychronakis;Evangelos P. Markatos

  • Network-level polymorphic shellcode detection using emulation

    Michalis Polychronakis;Kostas G. Anagnostakis;Evangelos P. Markatos

  • STRIDE: Polymorphic Sled Detection Through Instruction Sequence Analysis

    Periklis Akritidis;Evangelos P. Markatos;Michalis Polychronakis;Kostas G. Anagnostakis

  • ret2dir: rethinking kernel isolation

    Vasileios P. Kemerlis;Michalis Polychronakis;Angelos D. Keromytis

  • E 2 xB: A Domain-Specific String Matching Algorithm for Intrusion Detection.

    Kostas G. Anagnostakis;Spyros Antonatos;Evangelos P. Markatos;Michalis Polychronakis

  • Exclusion-based Signature Matching for Intrusion Detection

    Evangelos P. Markatos;Spyros Antonatos;Michalis Polychronakis;Kostas G. Anagnostakis

  • Ghost turns zombie: exploring the life cycle of web-based malware

    Michalis Polychronakis;Panayiotis Mavrommatis;Niels Provos

  • Comprehensive shellcode detection using runtime heuristics

    Michalis Polychronakis;Kostas G. Anagnostakis;Evangelos P. Markatos

Frequent Co-Authors

Evangelos P. Markatos
Evangelos P. Markatos University of Crete
Angelos D. Keromytis
Angelos D. Keromytis Georgia Institute of Technology
Sotiris Ioannidis
Sotiris Ioannidis Technical University of Crete
Kostas G. Anagnostakis
Kostas G. Anagnostakis Institute for Infocomm Research
Fabian Monrose
Fabian Monrose University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Herbert Bos
Herbert Bos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Nikita Borisov
Nikita Borisov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Guofei Gu
Guofei Gu Texas A&M University
Thomas Karagiannis
Thomas Karagiannis Microsoft (United States)
Federico Maggi
Federico Maggi University of Sydney

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