Poster #34 - Michail Maniatakos

New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Biography

Michail Maniatakos is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., and a research assistant professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY, USA. He is the director of the MoMA Laboratory, NYU Abu Dhabi. He received his PhD in electrical engineering, as well as MSc and MPhil degrees from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. He also received BSc and MSc degrees in computer science and embedded systems, respectively, from the University of Piraeus, Greece. His research interests, funded by industrial partners, the US government, and the UAE government, include robust microprocessor architectures, privacy-preserving computation, smart cities, as well as industrial control systems security. Prof. Maniatakos has authored several publications in IEEE transactions and conferences, holds patents on privacy-preserving data processing, and he serves in the technical program committee for various international conferences. He has organized several workshops on security, and he currently is the faculty lead for the Embedded Security challenge held yearly worldwide as part of the NYU Cyber Security Awareness Week. His latest vulnerability discovery was featured at BlackHat USA 2017, and extensively covered by Reuters and BBC.