Andreas Pitsillidis PhD Student University of California, San Diego Department of Computer Science and Engineering     Office: EBU3B 3144 Email: apitsill AT cs.ucsd.edu Phone: (858) 534-8173 Mail: UCSD Dept of CSE 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0404 La Jolla, CA 92093-0404
About Me I am currently a PhD student working in the Systems and Networking and Security groups. My advisors are Stefan Savage and Geoff Voelker. Research Interests My research interests lie in the general area of computer security, networking and distributed systems. My current work focus is botnets. Publications A. Pitsillidis, K. Levchenko, C. Kreibich, C. Kanich, G. M. Voelker, V. Paxson, N. Weaver and S. Savage. Botnet Judo: Fighting Spam with Itself. NDSS 2010. Work Experience Summer Internship at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley, CA - Mentor: Yinglian Xie (2009) Misc I was born in Cyprus, a small island located in the eastern Mediterranean. In 2007 I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus. I initially joined UCSD as a Master's student, after receiving a scholarship for graduate studies in the US from Fulbright. I spent a big part of my undergraduate studies working part-time and during the summers on project DITIS. Specifically, I helped with the design and development for both desktop systems and mobile devices.