Stavros Nikolaou

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University

E-Mail: snikolaou[AT]cs[DOT]cornell[DOT]edu

413 Gates Hall,
Ithaca, NY 14853
Curriculum Vitae (updated September 2015)

About Me

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. My research interests lie in Distributed Systems and more specifically in their scalability and self-organization aspects. I am also interested in Algorithms, especially those designed for distributed computation. My advisor is Robbert van Renesse and we are currently working on the moving target defense problem and how we can improve a system's fault-tolerance by introducing dynamicity at the protocol level. In the past, we have worked on cache placement strategies for cooperative caches in the context of online social networks. My committee also includes  Prof. Johannes Gehrke, Prof. Dexter Kozen and Prof. Éva Tardos. My graduate minor is in Applied Mathematics.
I interned with the Computer Systems and Networking group at R.A. Microsoft Research, Cambridge during June-August 2013. I have also worked as a research member at R.A. Computer Technology Institute, Research Unit 1 from 2010-2011. I received my Dimploma in Computer Science and Engineering from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics at the University of Patras, Greece in 2010.


Publications

Turtle Consensus: Moving Target Defense for Consensus. Middleware 2015 (to appear).
S. Nikolaou, R. van Renesse

Proactive cache placement on cooperative client caches for online social networks. TPDS 2015.
S. Nikolaou, R. van Renesse, N. Schiper

Cooperative client caching strategies for social and web applications. LADIS 2013.
S. Nikolaou, R. van Renesse, N. Schiper

The Computational Power of Simple Protocols for Self-Awareness on Graphs. SSS 2011.
I. Chatzigiannakis, O. Michail, S. Nikolaou, and P. G. Spirakis.

Passively Mobile Communicating Machines that Use Restricted Space. (Journal Version) TCS, volume 412, number 46, pages 6469-6483, 2011
I. Chatzigiannakis, O. Michail, S. Nikolaou, A. Pavlogiannis, and P. G. Spirakis.

All Symmetric Predicates in NSPACE(n2) are Stably Computable by the Mediated Population Protocol Model. MFCS 2010
I. Chatzigiannakis, O. Michail, S. Nikolaou, A. Pavlogiannis, and P. G. Spirakis.