I like to build robust and efficient distributed systems!

I am currently a Researcher at Azure Research (Security and Privacy Group), where I work on next-generation secure storage stacks and filesystems. I got my PhD from the the University of Edinburgh (UoE), advised by Prof. Pramod Bhatotia, where I designed and built dependable distributed data management systems leveraging state-of-the-art hardware in confidential computing (e.g., TEEs, CVMs) and networking (direct I/O and SmartNICs). During my PhD I interned twice at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK and Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA. I also served as a Research Assistant and a member of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA) and the Chair of Distributed and Operating Systems.

My research focuses on leveraging the state-of-the-art trusted hardware to design and build secure, robust and effiecient software systems, ranging from distributed datastores, transactions and storage systems to replicated KV stores.

Before joining ICSA, I graduated from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece.

Interests: Distributed and dependable systems, filesystems, transactional datastores, replication protocols, storage architectures.