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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.

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 Graduate Student Advised by Papamanthou Awarded Symantec Fellowship

Ioannis Demertzis is one of three doctoral students awarded a Symantec fellowship in 2018

Papamanthou Receives NSF CAREER Award to Improve Security in Cloud Computing

Project will design new frameworks, protocols that can provide security & privacy to common cloud applications

UMD Cybersecurity Symposium to Focus on Latest Trends in Cybersecurity

Fourth Annual MC2 Symposium on Dec. 7 will explore cutting-edge cybersecurity research

UMD & Army Researchers Discover Salty Solution to Better, Safer Batteries

Greatest potential uses seen in safety-critical, automotive and grid-storage applications

Papamanthou Receives Yahoo! Labs Award

Papamanthou receives award to develop new algorithms for searchable encryption

UMD Among Largest Recipients of NSF Funding for Cybersecurity Research and Education

UMD research awards are part of the NSF’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program

Papamanthou Receives $500K NSF Grant on Advanced Data Structures and Security

Papamanthou will use NSF grant to make advanced data structures more secure

UMD Researchers Awarded $1M from NIST to Work on Next-Generation Cryptography

Katz, Papamanthou and Dachman-Soled will collaborate with NIST on post-quantum cryptography project

Papamanthou Receives Google Research Award

Google awards research grant to Papamanthou for his research in navigating e-mail encryption.

MC2 Researchers Receive $1.2M NSF Grant for Verifiable Computation

Papamanthou leads team of MC2 Researchers on Verifiable Computing Project

Clark School Faculty Recognized at Celebration of Innovation and Partnerships

Clark School researchers sweep three categories for 2013 Invention of the Year

Clark School Welcomes New Faculty

Ten new faculty members join the Clark School for the 2013-2014 school year.