CV

Education

• PhD in Computer Science and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, 2022.
  • PhD Thesis: Secure multi-user Communications: An Information-theoretic and Coding Approach (Advisor: Nicholas Kalouptsidis)
• MSc in Computer Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Tripoli, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, 2016.
  • MSc Thesis: Security of Wireless Communication against Passive Attacks at Physical Layer (Advisor: Nicholas Kolokotronis)
• BSc in Computer Science and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, 2013.
  • BSc Thesis: Study of extreme events in time-series, in terms of Complexity Theory (Advisor: Konstantinos Eytaxias, Dimitris Sybridis)

Work experience

• Early Stage Researcher on development of Bayesian machine learning networks, aRTIFICIAL iNTELLIGENCE for the Deaf, H2020 Marie Curie RISE Project, 2022.
• Machine Learning consultant, 2023.

Publications

• M. Athanasakos, ``Secure Coding for the Gaussian Wiretap Channel with Sparse Regression Codes’’, 55th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), USA, 2021.
• M. Athanasakos, ``Output Statistics of Random Binning for Multiple Access Channels and Strong Secrecy’’, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking(CommNet), 2021.
• M. Athanasakos and G. Karagiannidis, `` Secure Polar Coding for the Primitive Relay Wiretap Channel’’, in Entropy, Information-Theoretic Approach on security and Privacy, 2020.
• M. Athanasakos and G. Karagiannidis, `` Strong Secrecy for Relay Wiretap Channels with Polar Codes and Double-Chaining’’, in IEEE GLOBECOM, Taiwan, 2020.
• M. Athanasakos and N. Kalouptsidis, `` Strong Secrecy for general multiple-access wiretap channels’’, in BalkanCom, Skopia, 2019.
• N. Kolokotronis and M. Athanasakos, `` Improving Physical Layer Security in DF relaying via Two-Stage Cooperative jamming’’, in EUSIPCO, Budapest, 2016.

Sholarships and Awards

Academic Scholarship for pursuing PhD, co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund- ESF) through the Operational Programme ``Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning’’, implemented by the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY).

Teaching

• Information Theory and Coding
• Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Games

Service

Regular Reviewer at: (IEEE Transactions on Communications, Access, Communication Letters, Journal of Communications and Networks, Entropy, GlobeCom, ISIT, ICC, CISS)

Skills

• Programming skills
  • Programming Languages : C, C++, C#, Python, Java
  • Databases (Implementation/Design/Use): MySQL
  • Markup and Web : HTML, Javascript, PHP, node, jQuery, CSS
  • Scientific Computing: Matlab, Origin Pro, NumPy, Gnuplot
  • Scripting: bash programming, awk, sed
• Computer skills
  • Operating systems: Windows, Unix based (Mac OS X, Linux)
  • Text Editors : MS Office/ Open Office, Latex, Vim
  • Network monitoring: Nagios, OpenNMS
  • Systems Analysis: UML, Case Tools