Eleftheria Makri









About

I am an Information Security professional, specialized in Cryptography, and my career is focused on research and education. Since March 2023, I function as an Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University. My research interests lie mainly in the field of Applied Cryptography, and Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Specifically, I am interested in technologies and applications of Computing on Encrypted Data (e.g., homomorphic encryption, and multiparty computation).

Formerly (2014-2023), I worked as a Senior Lecturer/Researcher at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, where I was affiliated with the Bachelor programme Security Management, and the research group Social Safety & Security -lectoraat Maatschappelijke Veiligheid-. As a Saxion lecturer, I integrated theory and practice to disseminate the information security specialist's key professional aspirations. In the past, I have also functioned as a junior researcher in the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Twente (2012-2014), where I conducted research in the area of Privacy-Preserving Data Mining in Electronic Health Records.

I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science, Electrical Engineering, from COSIC, KU Leuven (2021), with the Thesis entitled "Secure and Efficient Computing on Private Data", under the supervision of Dr. Frederik Vercauteren, and Dr. Bart Preneel. I obtained my M.Sc. in Information & Communication Systems Security from the University of the Aegean, School of Engineering (2011). I completed my Master's Thesis, entitled "Constant Round Group Key Agreement Protocols: A Comparative Study", under the supervision of Dr. Elisavet Konstantinou. I received my B.Sc. in Informatics from the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, School of Technological Applications (2009), with the Thesis entitled "Implementation of an Intrusion Detection Mechanism Specialized on Insider Attacks" (supervision Dr. Ioanna Kantzavelou).




Teaching

Advanced School for Computing and Imaging - ASCI, The Netherlands

Lecturer and co-organizer

LIACS, Leiden University

Lecturer

Master's Thesis Supervisor

Master's Thesis Co-Supervisor

Bachelor Thesis Supervisor

imec-COSIC, KU Leuven

Master's Thesis Co-Supervisor

Bachelor's in Security Management, Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Coordinator

Lecturer

Bachelor's Thesis Supervisor

Bachelor's Thesis Co-Supervisor

Minor Cyber Security, Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Coordinator

Lecturer

Minor De Digitale Revolutie, Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Lecturer

Minor in IT Security, Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Lecturer

Saxion Part-Time School - SPS, Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Lecturer

Bachelor's in Integrated Safety Studies, Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Lecturer

Master's in Computer Science, University of Twente

Teaching Assistant

Publications

PhD Thesis

  1. E. Makri. "Secure and Efficient Computing on Private Data". Supervisors: Prof. dr. ir. Bart Preneel; Prof. dr. ir. Frederik Vercauteren. July, 2021.

Journals

  1. C. Bonte, E. Makri, A. Ardeshirdavani, J. Simm, Y. Moreau, F. Vercauteren. "Towards Practical Privacy-Preserving Genome-Wide Association Study". In BMC Bioinformatics, 19(1), 1-12, 2018.
  2. E. Makri, J. ten Brinke, R. Evers, P. Man, H. Olthof. "Privacy-Friendly Wi-Fi-Based Occupancy Estimation with Minimal Resources". In International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI), 9(4), 34-51, 2018.
  3. E. Makri and E. Konstantinou. "Constant Round Group Key Agreement Protocols: A Comparative Study". In Computers & Security, 30(8), 643-678, 2011.

Conferences and Workshops

  1. C. Delpech de Saint Guilhem, E. Makri, D. Rotaru, T. Tanguy. "The return of Eratosthenes: Secure Generation of RSA Moduli using Distributed Sieving". In ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 594-609. 2021.
  2. E. Makri, T. Wood. "Full-Threshold Actively-Secure Multiparty Arithmetic Circuit Garbling". In International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, pp. 407-430. Springer, Cham, 2021.
  3. E. Makri, D. Rotaru, F. Vercauteren, S. Wagh. "Rabbit: Efficient Comparison for Secure Multi-Party Computation". In International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, pp. 249-270. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2021.
  4. E. Makri, D. Rotaru, N. P. Smart, F. Vercauteren. "EPIC: Efficient Private Image Classification (or: Learning from the Masters)". In Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference, pp. 473-492. Springer, Cham, 2019.
  5. E. Makri, M. H. Everts, S. de Hoogh, A. Peter, H. op den Akker, P. H. Hartel, W. Jonker. "Privacy-Preserving Verification of Clinical Research". In GI Sicherheit 2014, Lecture Notes in Informatics, S. Katzenbeisser, V. Lotz, and E. Weippl (eds.), pp. 481-500, 2014.




Invited Talks

January 19, 2024 Digital Security Group, Radboud University, Lunch talk.
April 14, 2023 CWI Cryptology Seminar.
October 6-8, 2021 Latincrypt 2021, Virtual Conference.
May 27, 2021 TU Eindhoven, Ei/Ψ Virtual Seminar.
March 1 - 5, 2021 Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021, Virtual Conference.
May 25 - June 4, 2020 Theory and Practice of Multiparty Computation - TPMPC 2020, Virtual Workshop.
March 4-8, 2019 RSA Conference 2019 - Cryptographers' Track: Multiparty Computation and Application, San Francisco, USA.
July 15, 2018 PiMLAI Worshop 2018: Privacy in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden.
January 17, 2018 GMI 2018: Genomics Medicine Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Industry invited talk on the use of multiparty computation, and homomorphic encryption in genomic analysis.
April 18-22, 2016 University of New Haven, Connecticut, USA: "National Security" and "Criminal Justice" studies. Guest lectures on:
  • Business Continuity
  • Cryptography (1/2)   
  • Cryptography (2/2)  
    • April 14, 2015 Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Enschede, The Netherlands: School of Business, Building & Technology, Minor in Information Management; Security & Privacy Masterclass (guest lecture).
    November 27-28, 2013 ICT.OPEN 2013: The interface for Dutch ICT-Research, Cyber Security track, TU Eindhoven.
    July 24-26, 2013 WEWoRC 2013: Western European Workshop on Research in Cryptology, KIT Karlsruhe.
    June 20-21, 2013 CTIT Symposium 2013: Big Data & the Emergence of Data Science, University of Twente.
    June 4, 2013 CrossFyre Workshop 2013: International Workshop on Cryptography, Robustness, and Provably Secure Schemes for Female Young Researchers, University of Leuven.




    Miscellaneous

    Program Committee Member

    (Sub-)reviewer

    PhD (Opposition) Committee Member

    Event Organization

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    Contact Me

    Address: Gorlaeus Building, LIACS, Leiden University,
                Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden,
                The Netherlands

    Phone: +31 (0) 71 527 2727

        E-mail: e.makri@liacs.leidenuniv.nl

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