Nikos Vasilakis Source Confirmed

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Researcher

John Brown University

faculty

10 h-index 41 pubs 383 cited

Research Areas

Security and Verification in Computing Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Software Testing and Debugging Techniques

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Nikos Vasilakis is a faculty member at John Brown University whose research encompasses security and verification in computing, parallel computing, and advanced malware detection. Vasilakis investigates vulnerabilities in software supply chains, as demonstrated by publications analyzing the event-stream incident and exploring active learning and regeneration techniques for supply-chain vulnerability elimination. He also develops methods for preventing dynamic library compromise in Node.js, including RWX-based privilege reduction and hybrid protection strategies against native Node.js add-ons. Additional interests include software testing/debugging, as well as distributed and parallel computing systems.

Metrics

  • h-index: 10
  • Publications: 41
  • Citations: 383

Selected Publications

  • Guarding LLM-aided Software Transformation Tasks via Component Exoskeletons (2025) DOI
  • From Ahead-of- to Just-in-Time and Back Again: Static Analysis for Unix Shell Programs (2025) DOI
  • BinWrap: Hybrid Protection against Native Node.js Add-ons (2023) DOI
  • Towards Practical Application-level Support for Privilege Separation (2022) DOI

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Evangelos Lamprou John Brown University 2 shared publications Vasileios P. Kemerlis John Brown University 1 shared publication Lukas Lazarek John Brown University 1 shared publication Sungjoon Jung John Brown University 1 shared publication Eric Zhao John Brown University 1 shared publication ZhuoHan Li John Brown University 1 shared publication

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