is key researcher at SBA Research working on mathematical aspects of information security and an adjunct lecturer at TU Wien. He is currently leading the combinatorial security testing research team of SBA Research.

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Research Interests

Dimitris has a keen interest on combinatorial designs and error-correcting codes, where he studied construction methods and algorithms for the generation of the latter objects.

His research interests extend to the application of combinatorial designs to software testing, combinatorial testing in particular, error-correcting codes and their applications to post-quantum cryptography, optimization algorithms, symbolic computation and in general all mathematical aspects of information security.

Bio

He received his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (2006) from the University of Athens. He holds a master’s degree in Applied Mathematical Sciences (2007) and a Ph.D. in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics (2011), both obtained from the National Technical University of Athens. He also held the status of a Marie Curie Fellow within a 3-year ERCIM grant (2012-2015) awarded by the European Commission. In particular, after his Ph.D. and before joining SBA Research, he was an ERCIM/Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow within Project-Team SECRET of INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt research center working on the design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms, especially through the study of the involved discrete structures. He is the author of around sixty papers in discrete mathematics and their applications to computer science and a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (FTICA), an achievement awarded on the basis of the quality of his scientific publications. He is a member of the editorial board of three international peer-reviewed journals and has served as a program committee (PC) member for various international conferences, ESORICS 2015, BalkanCryptSec 2014, 2015, ARES 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, IWCT 2015 among others. He was also MoCrySEn 2012, 2013, Program Chair and he will serve in the organizing committee of IWCT 2016. He is also a member of IEEE, ICA, ERCIM expert group on security and privacy, various COST actions and MIR Labs.

Publications

• Ilias Kotsireas and Temur Kutsia and Dimitris Simos, "Constructing Orthogonal Designs in Powers of Two: Groebner Bases Meet Equational Unification," in 26th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2015), 2015. BibTeX | PDF
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  Author = {Ilias Kotsireas and Temur Kutsia and Dimitris Simos},
  title = {Constructing Orthogonal Designs in Powers of Two: Groebner Bases Meet Equational Unification},
  booktitle = {26th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2015)},
  year = {2015},
  month = {6},
  pdf = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5200/pdf/20.pdf},
  }
• Paris Kitsos and Dimitris Simos and Jose Torres-Jimenez and Artemios G. Voyiatzis, "Exciting FPGA Cryptographic Trojans using Combinatorial Testing," in 26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015), 2015. BibTeX | PDF
  @INPROCEEDINGS{Kitsos2015Exciting,
  Author = {Paris Kitsos and Dimitris Simos and Jose Torres-Jimenez and {Artemios G.} Voyiatzis},
  sbahotlist = {true},
  title = {Exciting FPGA Cryptographic Trojans using Combinatorial Testing},
  booktitle = {26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015)},
  year = {2015},
  month = {11},
  pdf = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7381800/?section=abstract},
  }
• Josip Bozic and Bernhard Garn and Ioannis Kapsalis and Dimitris Simos and Severin Winkler and Franz Wotawa, "Attack Pattern-Based Combinatorial Testing with Constraints for Web Security Testing," in IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security 2015, 2015. BibTeX | PDF
  @INPROCEEDINGS{Bozic2015Attack,
  Author = {Josip Bozic and Bernhard Garn and Ioannis Kapsalis and Dimitris Simos and Severin Winkler and Franz Wotawa},
  title = {Attack Pattern-Based Combinatorial Testing with Constraints for Web Security Testing},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security 2015},
  year = {2015},
  month = {8},
  pdf = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7272934/},
  }
• Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos, "Eris: A tool for combinatorial testing of the linux system call interface," in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, 2014. BibTeX | PDF
  @INPROCEEDINGS{Garn2014Eris,
  Author = {Bernhard Garn and Dimitris Simos},
  title = {Eris: A tool for combinatorial testing of the linux system call interface},
  booktitle = {2014 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops},
  year = {2014},
  month = {3},
  pdf = {CT-Eris_ICSTW_2014.pdf},
  }
• Nicolas Sendrier and Dimitris Simos, "The Hardness of Code Equivalence over Fq and its Application to Code-based Cryptography," in Post quantum cryptography PQCrypto, 2013. BibTeX | PDF
  @INPROCEEDINGS{_The_Hardness_of_Code_Equivalen_2013,
  Author = {Nicolas Sendrier and Dimitris Simos},
  title = {The Hardness of Code Equivalence over Fq and its Application to Code-based Cryptography},
  booktitle = {Post quantum cryptography PQCrypto},
  year = {2013},
  month = {6},
  pdf = {codeqapp3_pqcrypto_fin.pdf},
  }

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Publications prior to joining SBA Research
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