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I am a Security Research Engineer at Thales Group, working on applied cryptography for secure and privacy-preserving systems. I recently completed my PhD in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, supervised by Prof. William Knottenbelt. My research sits at the intersection of applied cryptography, privacy engineering, and information security. I work across fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), secure multi-party computation (MPC), and post-quantum cryptography (PQC), with a particular interest in turning these techniques into systems that are practical to deploy. My doctoral research developed methods for privacy-preserving biometric recognition, designing a homomorphically encrypted iris identification system that performs 1:N matching directly over encrypted data, without ever exposing the underlying biometric template.
Before joining Thales, I was a Research Engineer at Toshiba Research Europe, where I built proof-of-concept systems for decentralised digital identity and privacy-preserving data sharing. Side roles include consultancy work applying blockchain, smart contracts, and zero-knowledge proofs to data-entitlement problems, and applied data-science projects in sports analytics and sentiment analysis.
Prior to my PhD, I completed a Master of Science (MSc) on Applied Economics and Data Analysis at University of Patras, conducting my Master’s thesis on “Trust Issues in Sharing Economy: A study based on Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks” under the supervision of Prof. Manolis Tzagarakis and Dr. Victoria Daskalou.
Research interests:
- Privacy-preserving biometrics and identity
- Zero-knowledge proofs and verifiable computation
- Fully homomorphic encryption and encrypted computation
- Secure multi-party computation and post-quantum cryptography
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