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Papamanthou, Charalampos

Papamanthou, Charalampos

Adjunct Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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EDUCATION

  • PhD in Computer Science (2011), Brown University
  • MSc in Computer Science (2007), Brown University
  • MSc in Computer Science (2005), University of Crete
  • BSc in Applied Informatics (2003), University of Macedonia

BACKGROUND

Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou is an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the former director of the Maryland Cybesecurity center (MC2). He obtained his PhD and MSc in Computer Science from Brown University in 2007 and 2011 respectively. While at Brown, he was the recipient of the Kanellakis and van Dam fellowships and he also interned at Intel Research (2008) and Microsoft Research (2010). Before graduate school, he studied in Greece at the University of Crete (MSc) and the University of Macedonia (BSc).  He has published in venues and journals spanning theoretical and applied cryptography, systems and database security, graph algorithms and visualization and operations research.

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2017
  • NetApp Faculty Fellowship, 2016
  • Google Faculty Research Award, 2015
  • Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program Fellowship, 2015
  • University of Maryland George Corcoran Award for Teaching, 2015
  • University of Maryland Invention of the Year Award, 201

Computer Security and Applied Cryptography


  • Emil Stefanov, Charalampos Papamanthou and Elaine Shi. Practical dynamic searchable encryption with small leakage. In Proc. Int. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego CA, USA, 2014.
  • Elaine Shi, Emil Stefanov and Charalampos Papamanthou. Practical dynamic proofs of retrievability. In Proc. Int. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Berlin, Germany, 2013.
  • Charalampos Papamanthou, Elaine Shi, Roberto Tamassia, and Ke Yi. Streaming authenticated data structures. In Proc. Int. Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (EUROCRYPT), Athens,Greece, 2013.
  • Seny Kamara and Charalampos Papamanthou. Searching dynamic encrypted data in parallel. In Proc. Int. Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference (FC), Okinawa, Japan, 2013.
  • Charalampos Papamanthou, Elaine Shi, and Roberto Tamassia. Signatures of correct computation. In Proc. Int. Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC), volume 7785 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 222–242, Tokyo, Japan, 2013.
  • Prateek Mittal, Charalampos Papamanthou, and Dawn Song. Preserving link privacy in social network-based systems. In Proc. Int. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego CA, USA, 2013.
  • Seny Kamara, Charalampos Papamanthou, and Tom Roeder. Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption. In Proc. Int. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), pages 965–976, Raleigh NC, USA, 2012.
  • Michael T. Goodrich, Duy Nguyen, Olga Ohrimenko, Charalampos Papamanthou, Roberto Tamassia, Nikos Triandopoulos, and Cristina Videira Lopes. Efficient verification of web-content searching through authenticated web crawlers. In Proc. Int. Conference Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), volume 5(10) of PVLDB, pages 920–931, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012.
  • Charalampos Papamanthou, Roberto Tamassia, and Nikos Triandopoulos. Optimal verification of operations on dynamic sets. In Proc. Int. Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO), volume 6841 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 91–110, Santa Barbara CA, USA, 2011.

MC2 Researchers Present Six Papers at ACM Security Conference

Two of the six papers received honorable mention awards at the annual conference.

MC2 Researchers Have 13 Papers Accepted to Upcoming Cybersecurity Events

The papers highlight the center’s cutting-edge research in programming languages, encrypted databases, and more.

Graduating Students and Postdocs Affiliated with MC2 Accept Positions in Academia and Industry

Being hired by top universities and companies is a testament to their creativity, hard work and ambition.

ECE Names 2019-2020 Distinguished Dissertation Fellows

Das, Demertziz, Nguyen, and Zou have been selected as ECE Distinguished Dissertation Fellows for 2019-20.

Papamanthou Named Director of MC2

Papamanthou will provide leadership to the unique center that joins computer scientists and engineers with researchers from across campus in fields such as economics, supply-chain management and the social sciences.

MC2 Researchers Awarded $600K NIST Grant

The grant will allow researchers to continue developing next-generation cryptography protocols.

Papamanthou & Visiting Postdoc Working on Encrypted Databases

They have joined forces this month in MC2 to study pressing security issues in encrypted databases.

Khaligh, Dumitras, and Papamanthou Receive Academic Promotions

Faculty promoted to full professor, associate professor with tenure.
 

MC2 Faculty, Students Have Five Papers Accepted to ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

MC2 researchers are presenting work covering a wide array of security-related topics

Yupeng Zhang to join Texas A&M faculty    

Zhang will join the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2019.