Nicolas Nicolaou

PhD. Student in Computer Science & Engineering
University of Connecticut

Resume: [ pdf ], [ doc ]

Research Interests:

• Fault-Tolerant Distributed Algorithms
• Wireless Mobile & Sensor Networks
• Theory and Practice of robust distributed computing
• Security Evaluation and Analysis of Voting Technologies

Degrees:

• PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut (in progress)
  Major Advisor: Alexander A. Shvartsman
• MS in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2006
• BS in Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 2003

Teaching Experience:

• Fall 2006, Teaching Assistant, CSE123C-Introduction to Computing and Programming in C++, University of Connecticut
• Spring 2006, Teaching Assistant, CSE230-Software Engineering, University of Connecticut
• Spring 2005, Teaching Assistant, CSE259-Algorithms and Complexity, University of Connecticut
• Fall 2003, Teaching Assistant, EPL033-C programming language for Civil Engineers, University of Cyprus

Publication List:

Journals:

J1.	Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas C. Nicolaou, and Alexander A. Shvartsman, Fault-Tolerant SemiFast Implementations of Atomic Read/Write Registers, in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 69(1): 62-79, Elsevier, 2009.


Refereed Conferences:

C6	S. Kentros, A. Kiayias, N. Nicolaou and A. A. Shvartsman: At-Most-Once Semantics in Asynchronous Shared Memory, In Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2009), to appear, 2009.
C5	Seda Davtyan, Sotiris Kentros, Aggelos Kiayias, Laurent Michel, Nicolas Nicolaou, Alexander Russell, Andrew See, Narasimha Shashidhar, Alexander A. Shvartsman: Taking Total Control of Voting Systems: Firmware Manipulations on an Optical Scan Voting Terminal, In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 09),pages 2049-2053, March 8–12, Hawaii, 2009.
C4	Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas Nicolaou, and Alexander A. Shvartsman, On the Robustness of (Semi)Fast Quorum-Based Implementations of Atomic Shared Memory, In Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2008), pages 289-304, Arcachon, France, 2008.
C3	K.M. Konwar, P.M. Musial, N.C. Nicolaou, A.A. Shvartsman: Implementing Atomic Data through Indirect Learning in Dynamic Networks. In Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA 2007), pages 223-230, 2007.
C2	Nicolas C. Nicolaou, Andrew G. See, Peng Xie, Jun Hong Cui, Dario Maggiorini, Improving the Robustness of Location-Based Routing for Underwater Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS 2007, pages 1-6, 2007.
C1	Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas C. Nicolaou, Alexander A. Shvasrtsman, Fault-Tolerant SemiFast Implementations of Atomic Read/Write Registers. In Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2006), pages 281-290, 2006.


Workshops:

W2	T. Antonyan, S. Davtyan, S. Kentros, A. Kiayias, L. Michel, N. Nicolaou, A. Russell and A. Shvartsman: Automating Voting Terminal Event Log Analysis, In Proceedings of Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop of Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE'09), to appear, 2009.
W1	Seda Davtyan, Sotiris Kentros, Aggelos Kiayias, Laurent Michel, Nicolas Nicolaou, Alexander Russell, Andrew See, Narasimha Shashidhar, Alexander A. Shvartsman: Pre-Election Testing and Post-Election Audit of Optical Scan Voting Terminal Memory Cards, In Proceedings of the 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '08), July 28–29, San Jose, 2008.


Brief Announcements:

B3	S. Kentros, A. Kiayias, N. Nicolaou and A. A. Shvartsman, At-Most-Once Semantics in Asynchronous Shared Memory, In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2009), to appear, 2009.
B2	Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas C. Nicolaou, Alexander A. Shvasrtsman, On the Robustness of (Semi) Fast Quorum-Based Implementations of Atomic Shared Memory, In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2008), pages 425-425, 2008.
B1	Chryssis Georgiou, Nicolas C. Nicolaou, Alexander A. Shvasrtsman, Brief Announcement: Fault-Tolerant SemiFast Implementations of Atomic Read/Write Registers. In Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2006), pages 537-539, 2006.


Technical Reports, Thesis and Other:

O2	Kishori K. Konwar, Piotr Musial, Nicolas C. Nicolaou, Alexander A. Shvasrtsman, Using Indirect Learning to Improve Operation Liveness of a Consistent Data Service for Dynamic Networks, Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2006-070, MIT CSAIL, October 2006.
O1	Nicolas Nicolaou, Robot as a Museum Guide, BS Thesis, University Of Cyprus, June 2003.