EDUCATION

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2002 - 2006)
    - M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    - B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering
    - GPA: 4.9 / 5
    - Concentration: Distributed Systems, Computer Networks, Security, Distributed Algorithms, Human Computer Interaction

WORK EXPERIENCE


Security 

  • Google Inc (June 06 - present)
    - Software Engineer, Anti-Malware team.
  • Mazu Networks, Inc (Summer 2005)
    - Worked on a system for automatic identification and signature generation of (possibly new) worms in networks. The system successfully identified the Zotob worm spreading on a university network.
  • MIT (Fall 2005)
    - Developed a system for identifying P2P traffic in large networks. We analyze only the headers in the transport layer, which results to an efficient implementation that can also identify previously unknown P2P protocols.

Distributed Computing

  • M.Eng Thesis (2005-2006)
    - Designed and implemented the TIOA Simulator, a tool for testing and analyzing distributed systems with desired guarantees such as correctness, fault-tolerance, availabilty and efficiency.
  • Veromodo, Inc (2005-2006)
     - Specified and analyzed distributed systems with the TIOA Simulator. Created a Graphical User Interface for developing TIOA and using the TIOA Simulator.
  • University of Cyprus (Summer 2004)
     - Developed complex distributed algorithms on asynchronous networks from code that was proved correct. Implemented algorithms such as the distributed Minimum Spanning Tree formation (GHS).

PUBLICATIONS

  • All Your Iframes Point to Us
    Niels Provos, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose
    Google Technical report, http://research.google.com/archive/provos-2008a.pdf, Feb 2008
  • Ghost Turns Zombie: Exploring the Life Cycle of Web-based Malware
     Michalis Polychronakis, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos
    USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET), April 2008
    http://www.usenix.org/event/leet08/tech/full_papers/polychronakis/polychronakis.pdf
  • The Ghost in the browser Analysis of web-based malware.
    Niels Provos, Dean McNamee, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Ke Wang, and Nagendra Modadugu
    USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets    , April 2007.
  • Signature Metrics for Accurate and Automated Worm Detection.
    Prem Gopalan, Kyle Jamieson, Panayiotis Mavrommatis and Massimiliano Poletto
    4th ACM workshop on Recurring malcode (WORM 06) 
  • Automated Implementation of Complex Distributed Algorithms Specified in the IOA Language.
    C. Georgiou, N. Lynch, P. Mavrommatis and J. Tauber
    18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2005)
  • Identifying Known and Unknown P2P Traffic.
    Fivos Constantinou and Panayiotis Mavrommatis
    5th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA06).

AWARDS

  • USA Computing Research Association
    - Outstanding Undergraduate Award 2005 (Hon. Mention) 
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    - Final Project Design Award, Laboratory in Software Engineering, Fall 2003 
  • International Olympiads
    - Bronze Medal, International Chemistry Olympiad, Denmark 2000
    - Balkan Mathematics Olympiad, Moldova 2000
    - Selected in National Team for International Mathematical Olympiad, Korea, 2000

CONTACT

  • mavrommatis@gmail.com