Vasileios (Vasilis) Giotsas is a research engineer focusing on network measurements and telemetry, mapping of the Internet topology, and Internet routing.
He has worked as a Lecturer at the Computer and Communications department of Lancaster University, as a research scientist at the Internet Measurement and Analysis group of Technischen Universität Berlin, and as postdoctoral researcher at CAIDA (Center of Advanced Internet Data Analysis) at the University of California San Diego. He has led the work of multiple mission-critical research projects funded by the UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), through which he developed expertise in the operational aspects of risk assessment and mitigation for national cyber-defence and security.
His work has been distinguished with the CoNEXT 2015 best paper award and the IETF Applied Networking Research Prize 2016, and his datasets have been shortlisted in 2013 and 2014 for the ACM SIGCOMM Community Contribution Award. He was the recipient of two RIPE NCC Community Projects funds and two RIPE NCC fellowships.

Research Areas (incomplete)

Internet Measurement, Network Privacy

Projects

Publications

• Fayed, Marwan, Lorenz Bauer, Vasileios Giotsas, Sami Kerola, Marek Ma- jkowski, Pavel Odinstov, Jakub Sitnicki, Taejoong Chung, Dave Levin, Alan Mislove, Christopher A. Wood, Nick Sullivan. "The Ties that un-Bind: Decoupling IP from web services and sockets for robust addressing agility at CDN-scale." In ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference (SIGCOMM ’21), August 23–28, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. 2021. To appear.