Dr Georgios Chatzivasilis
- Research Associate (School of Computing Science)
Biography
I hold a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering by the Technical University of Crete (Greece) and a MBA by the Wrexham Glyndwr University (UK). I hold a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete (Greece). I have been certified for Cybersecurity by (ISC)2, for Privacy and Data Protection by Vellum International as GDPR Specialist and DPO, as well as for Management of Information Systems (MIS) by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Recently, I founded TALOSOFT IKE, a startup for cybersecurity and AI solutions.
I am currently a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow. In the past, I was post-doc researcher and project manager at the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) and the EU funded projects VirtuWind, SEMIoTICS, CERTCOOP, Threat-Arrest (Coordination), SPIDER, ASCAPE, PUZZLE, SMART BEAR, and CONSOLE, and at the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and the EU funded projects SecOPERA (Coordination), INTACT, SecAwarenessTruss, and GR-SME-SOC. Also, I was post-doc researcher and project manager at the TUC’s Telecommunication Systems Institute (TSI) and the EU funded project SENTINEL. Also, I worked as Chief Security Engineer and project manager at the Swiss company SPHYNX Technology Solutions AG and the projects CYRENE, COLLABS, MARVEL, and FISHY. I was a seconded researcher at the Internet provider CABLENET in Cyprus, under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant and the project CyberSure. I have worked as R&D engineer for the Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI) at the EU founded project nSHIELD and for TSI/TUC at the EU founded projects OSMOSIS and COSSIM. I was system administrator during my military service in the Greek Army. During my postgraduate studies, I was research assistant at the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Programme of FORTH, and later, researcher for the Technical University of Crete.
Concerning education, I was lecturer for Information Systems Security at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and for Computer Science at the Social Work Department of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (former Technological Educational Institute of Crete), as well as for Computer and Network Security at the Faculty of Computing of the Metropolitan College. In the past, I was lecturer for the Advance Digital Forensics at the Department of Science and Technology at the International Hellenic University (in English language).
My research interests include information systems security and privacy, risk assessment, security monitoring and management in supply-chains, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and robotics, AI and ML in cybersecurity, Circular Economy, Big Data analysis, blockchaining, digital forensics and cyber threat intelligence, security training and cyber-ranges, ambient intelligence and disaster mitigation planning in critical infrastructures.
Research interests
Research Interests:
- Information systems security and privacy
- Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
- Risk management
- System monitoring and security assurance
- Incident response and post-incident analysis
- Use of AI in cybersecurity
- Regulatory compliance
