Athanasios (Thanos) ANDREOU

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: a..@nyu.edu, a..@gmail.com

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About

Welcome!

I am a postdoctoral researcher at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Damon McCoy's team. I obtained my PhD in Sorbonne Université (while being based in EURECOM), under the supervision of Patrick Loiseau & Oana Goga.

I acquired my Diploma (5 years) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NTUA. I also have a MSc in Communications & Computer Security from EURECOM.

I am broadly interested in security and privacy, and bringing transparency to complex algorithms and social media platforms.

News

September 2023. I started working as a postdoctoral researcher at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Damon McCoy's team.

Publications

Conferences

Collaborative Ad Transparency: Promises and Limitations

E. Gkiouzepi, A. Andreou, O. Goga, P. Loiseau

IEEE S&P 2023 (IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)

Facebook Ads Monitor: An Independent Auditing System for Political Ads on Facebook

M. Silva, L. Santos de Oliveira, A. Andreou, PO. Vaz de Melo, O. Goga, F. Benevenuto

WWW 2020 (The Web Conference)

Honorable Mention Paper at WWW 2020

Winner of the 2020 CNIL-Inria Award for Privacy Protection

Measuring the Facebook Advertising Ecosystem

A. Andreou, M. Silva, F. Benevenuto, O. Goga, P. Loiseau, A. Mislove

NDSS 2019 (The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium)

Presentation

Auditing Data Brokers' Advertising Interfaces: Privacy Risks with Facebook's PII-based Targeting

G. Venkatadri, A. Andreou, Y. Liu, A. Mislove, K. Gummadi, P. Loiseau, O. Goga

IEEE S&P 2018 (IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Symposium)

Runner-up for the Caspar Bowden PET award for outstanding research in privacy enhancing technologies

Press coverage: WIRED The Telegraph Siècle digital Naked Security

Investigating Ad Transparency Mechanisms in Social Media: A Case Study of Facebook’s Explanations

A. Andreou, G. Venkatadri, O. Goga, K. Gummadi, P. Loiseau, A. Mislove

NDSS 2018 (The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium)

Presentation

Runner-up for the 2019 CNIL-Inria Award for Privacy Protection

Press coverage: The Guardian QUARTZ Bloomberg Businessweek ABC

Identity vs. Attribute Disclosure Risks for Users with Multiple Social Profiles

A. Andreou, O. Goga, P. Loiseau

ASONAM 2017 (IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining) (17.2% acceptance rate)

Best paper award runner-up

Assessing the coverage of data collection campaigns on Twitter: A case study

V. Plachouras, Y. Stavrakas, A. Andreou

OTM Confederated International Conferences "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, September 2013"

Thesis

Tools

AdAnalyst

A tool to help you make sense of the ads you receive on Facebook

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