image alt < Costas Iordanou is an Assistant Professor in Network Security at the European University Cyprus . Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Network Systems and Science Research Laboratory (NetSySci ) at Cyprus University of Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany. During his PhD studies he was fully funded by an FP7 EU grant (Marie Curie, Metrics ITN program), a collaborative project with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid , the Technical University of Berlin , and Telefonica I + D.

His research focuses on network and distributed systems, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), applied ML, online privacy and cybersecurity. His work has been featured in top-tier conferences and journals, including SigComm, CoNext, PRL, IMC and WWW.

He holds a BSc in Computer Engineering and Informatics (2013) and MSc in Computer Engineering and Informatics (2014) from Cyprus University of Technology . In 2015 he earned a second MSc. in Telematic Engineering from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid . He completed his PhD (-Dr. -Ing.) at Technische Universität Berlin in 2019.

Dr. Iordanou is passionate about designing and implementing crowdsourced, web-based distributed systems that help internet users understand how their personal data is collected and used online. A short list of such tools is provided below:

  • eyeWnder , a new Real Time Web Advertisement Analyser.
  • $heriff , a browser add-on for detecting price discrimination in e-commerce.
  • EITR , a real time system that combines a browser extension and a distributed federated learning model to identifying sensitive URLs in real-time while the user browse the web.
  • (NEW) pageInspector is an experimental web-page analyzer/visualizer to help users and web admins to inspect third party domain inclusions.
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