WORK EXPERIENCE

01/05/2018
Nikolaos
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Mouzakitis
National Matching Funds 2017-2018 of the Greek Govt
Date of birth: 21/11/1989
(GSRT) related to “FP7-DREAMS”
Design and implementation of security protocols extending CAN
Nationality: Greek communication protocol, developing energy efficient security devices
(firmware) preventing maquerade/replay attacks in distributed
Gender: Male embedded control  networks.
Heraklion, Greece

CONTACT Grenoble, France

 Avliotes, null Internship and Thesis for University Degree

49081 Corfu, Greece Virtual Open Systems
mzktsn@gmail.com Working on building SeaBIOS and OVMF(edk2) firmware for emulation
 on Qemu,
 (+30) 6949924626 and EDK2 specific platform firmware build for flashing on real HW
(MinnowBoard Turbot D-E).
Purpose of internship includes altering the functionality of firmware
and working mainly on System Management Mode of x86's
processors, in order to support a new company product.

Also completed my thesis required for the Bachelor of Informatics

Engineering on Hellenic Mediterranean University titled
"Design of a system partitioning solution in x86 architecture".

Thesis was related to internship in the French company Virtual Open

Systems, and so decided not to be in public library repository.
A paper containing results of this work has been submitted to
Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and
Society,2020 conference and was selected to be presented in the
conference which was held virtually due to coronavirus restrictions in
November 2020.

14/09/2020 – 31/12/2020 – Grenoble, France

R&D Engineer
Virtual Open Systems
Continued working on topics related to thesis(vosysmonitorX86
development) and new customer assignments.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

15/09/2007 – 14/04/2013 – Samos, Greece
Bachelor in Mathematics
University of Aegean

01/10/2016 – CURRENT – Heraklion, Greece

Bachelor in Informatics Engineering
Technological Educational Institute of Crete

13/11/2018 – 16/11/2018 – ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium

 Technology Transfer Innovation Workshop 2018
ESA Academy
Selected to attend the pilot edition of the Technology Transfer &
Innovation Workshop that was offered by European Space Agency
Education Office. The Workshop was developed in close collaboration
with the Technology Transfer & Business Incubation Office. During the
ESA workshop, participating students learnt through various lectures
about different disciplines within the field of Technology Transfer &
Innovation, including patenting, entrepreneurship, and business
incubation.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
MOTHER TONGUE(S): Greek
OTHER LANGUAGE(S):
English

Listening Reading Spoken Spoken Writing

C1 C1 production interaction B2
B2 B2

DIGITAL SKILLS
Microsoft Word / Microsoft Excel / Microsoft Powerpoint / Instagram /
Microsoft Office / Google Docs / Skype / Internet user / Google Drive
/ Power Point
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Conferences
Publication : "On-the-fly Secure Group Communication on CAN Bus"
:Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and
Society,   26-27 September 2018, Pisa.
To appear in  Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2018

Authors: M.D. Grammatikakis, N. Mouzakitis, E. Ntallaris, V. Piperaki, K.

Patelis, and G. Vougioukalos
TEI of Crete
 
Abstract: vatiCAN is a data link protocol which supports authentication
and integrity
for critical messages, thwarting masquerade and replay attacks on in-
vehicle
networks, such as CAN bus. Our extension to vatiCAN (called vatiCAN-G)
supports
on-the-fly secure group communications, improving security through
separate 32-bit
authentication for group mask, and 64-bit authentication for data.
Experimental
results from running vatiCAN-G on small CAN networks with Atmel AVR-
based
microprocessors indicate limited overhead compared to vatiCAN, in the ms
range.
19/11/2020 – 21/11/2020 > – Virtually held due to coronavirus
x86 SMM Evaluation for Mixed Critical Systems

Publication "x86 SMM Evaluation for Mixed Critical Systems"

Authors: N.Mouzakitis, M.Paolino, M.D. Grammatikakis, D.S.Raho
Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and
Society,ApplePies2020.
Proceedings on Springer Lecture Notes on Electrical Engineering
Presented on ApplePies2020 conference in November 2020.

Abstract. As autonomous driving, industry 4.0, smart cities, etc. be-

come very popular, safety relevant computing is demanding high
performance
processors to manage an increasing number of sensors, actuators
and control units. In this context, safety critical environments (typically
run by real time operating systems) have to co-exist with one or mul-
tiple functional rich environments, e.g., Linux. Existing virtualization
technologies today are considered not secure enough to isolate these two
execution environment types. For this reason this paper evaluates x86
System
Management Mode (SMM) as a technology for building mixed critical
virtualization solutions. Considering them as key performance indicators,
interrupt context switch and the minimal round trip time overheads have
been measured. The obtained results on an Intel platform of respectively
1.39 μS and 12.73 μS, confirm a high potential for SMM. At the best of
our knowledge, this is the first work considering SMM as possible solution
for mixed critical environments.

DoS Detection on In-Vehicle Networks: Evaluation on

an Experimental Embedded System Platform
Publication :" DoS Detection on In-Vehicle Networks: Evaluation on
an Experimental Embedded System Platform"
 Applications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and
Society,  22-24 September 2021, Pisa.
To appear in Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2021
Authors: M. Grammatikakis, N. Mouzakitis, L. Kypraios and N.
Papatheodorou 

Abstract: Modern vehicles involve engine control units that communicate

over multiple in-vehicle networks via a
traditional Gateway. In this context, we develop an open, experimental
distributed embedded platform that
integrates CAN networks of different criticalities, populated with Raspberry
Pi 3 nodes and an Odroid XU3 device
that acts as the Gateway. During normal operation, a critical CAN (CAN2)
emulates engine traffic (i.e., Korean
car dataset). In contrast, a non-critical CAN (CAN1) sends packet requests
related to the dashboard display (e.g.,
engine speed, RPM, temperature, airflow, etc.). Responses to these packets
are forwarded back to CAN1, forming
a request-response path. In our DoS attack scenario, a malicious CAN1
node broadcasts packet requests that are
relayed by the Gateway towards CAN2. At the Gateway-level, we detect a
DoS attack by monitoring perturbations
of system metrics (Cortex-A15 power consumption, temperature gradients,
and packet ID frequency) from preestablished
thresholds using a sliding window-based cumulative sum approach. Also,
we monitor variations of
inter-arrival time in the request-response path at the periphery (CAN1). Our
results on the experimental automotive
platform indicate that frequency count at the Gateway and inter-arrival
time at the network periphery are promising
techniques for fast and accurate DoS detection using CUSUM. Furthermore,
preliminary experimental results
indicate that CUSUM is a more precise metric than entropy for detecting
DoS.
https://applepies.eu/2021/09/27/2021-edition/

JOB-RELATED SKILLS
Job-related skills
- Good analytical and problem solving skills (Mathematics).
- Systems/network  programming.
- Embedded software development.
- R&D experience on CAN Bus security protocols.
- Worked with Linux Kernel modules.
- Worked with USB-to-CAN communication.

SUBJECT GRADES
Subject Grades
- Operating Systems :                10.0 / 10.0
- Programming in C :                  10.0 / 10.0
- Data Structures :                      9.75 / 10.0
- Computer Architecture :         9.75 / 10.0
- Numerical Linear Algebra :    10.0 / 10.0  
- Digital Signal Processing:       9.28 / 10.0
- Microelectronics :                    9.75 / 10.0 
- Introduction to Telecommunications:  10.0 / 10.0