My name is Grigoris Ntousakis, born and raised in Chania, Crete. I hold a Master of Science in Computer Science from Brown University,
where I conducted research under the guidance of Professor Nikos Vasilakis and Professor Vasileios Kemerlis.
My research interests include computer security—with a particular focus on AI agent security—programming languages, dynamic program analysis, and techniques for improving software development workflows.
Interests. Dynamic Analysis, Security, Programming Languages
Interests. Dynamic Analysis, Security, Programming Languages
Education
- Brown University MSc in Computer Science (May 2026) Providence, USA
- Technical University of Crete (TUC) MSc in Computer Science and Engineering (Sept. 2024) Chania, Greece
- Technical University of Crete (TUC) BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Sept. 2020) Chania, Greece
Experience
- IBM Research Security Research Intern (May 2025 - Aug. 2025) Yorktown Heights, NY Conducted security research on LLM agents, focusing on threat modeling, data leakage prevention, and runtime policy inference.
- Telecommunication Systems Research Institute (TSI) Research Scientist (Mar. 2021 - Sept. 2024) Chania, Greece Lead the development of PRINCIPALS, enhancing security through cybersecurity primitives. Automated Kubernetes cluster deployments for R&D.
- Brown University Visiting Research Fellow (Mar. 2023 - Nov. 2023) Providence, USA Designed systems combining dynamic and static analysis for fine-grained security policies. Co-led development of BinWrap.
- Aegis Technologies Ltd. Cyber Security Engineer (Jan. 2022 - Jan. 2023) Remote, Singapore Implemented a high-performance deep packet inspection engine. Optimized packet processing for network monitoring.
Publications
- Controlling Opaque-Component Effects with Semisolates and Try pdf code Evangelos Lamprou, Tianyu (Ezri) Zhu, Di Jin, Grigoris Ntousakis, Georgios Liargkovas, Calvin Eng, Konstantinos Kallas, Michael Greenberg, and Nikos Vasilakis 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ‘26) ★ Received Best Paper Award ★
- Securing MCP-based Agent Workflows pdf Grigoris Ntousakis, Julian James Stephen, Michael V. Le, Sai Sree Laya Chukkapalli, Teryl Taylor, Ian M Molloy, and Frederico Araujo Practical Adoption Challenges of ML for Systems (PACMI ’25)
- Automated Annotation Inference for MCP-based Agents pdf Grigoris Ntousakis, Julian James Stephen, Michael V. Le, Sai Sree Laya Chukkapalli, Teryl Taylor, and Frederico Araujo 1st Workshop on Systems for Agentic AI (SAA ’25)
- Lexo: Eliminating Stealthy Supply-Chain Attacks via LLM-Assisted Program Regeneration pdf arxiv Evangelos Lamprou, Julian Dai, Grigoris Ntousakis, Martin C. Rinard, and Nikos Vasilakis arXiv
- BinWrap: Hybrid Protection Against Native Node.js Add-ons pdf code blog George Christou, Grigoris Ntousakis, Eric Lahtinen, Sotiris Ioannidis, Vasileios P. Kemerlis, and Nikos Vasilakis 18th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS 2023) ★ Received Distinguished Paper Award ★
- HoneyChart: Automated Honeypot Management Over Kubernetes pdf code George Kokolakis, Grigoris Ntousakis, Irodotos Karatsoris, Spiros Antonatos, Manos Athanatos, and Sotiris Ioannidis 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection (CPS4CIP 2022)
- A Systematic Analysis of the Event-Stream Incident pdf code Iosif Arvanitis, Grigoris Ntousakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Nikos Vasilakis ACM 15th European Workshop on Systems Security (EuroSec 2022)
- Preventing Dynamic Library Compromise on Node.js via RWX-Based Privilege Reduction pdf code arxiv Nikos Vasilakis, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu, Grigoris Ntousakis, Konstantinos Kallas, Ben Karel, André DeHon, and Michael Pradel ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2021)
- Efficient Module-Level Dynamic Analysis for Dynamic Languages with Module Recontextualization pdf code Nikos Vasilakis, Grigoris Ntousakis, Veit Heller, and Martin Rinard 29th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference & Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2021) ★ Received Distinguished Paper Award ★
Awards
- Best Paper Award July 2026 - OSDI 2026
- RSA Conference Security Scholar March 2026 - RSA Conference
- Noteworthy Artifact Reviewer August 2025 - USENIX Security 2025
- Artifact Ninja August 2025 - USENIX Security 2025
- Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship June 2025 - Gerondelis Foundation
- Distinguished Paper Award July 2023 - ASIA CCS 2023
- UniWA CTF - 1st Place July 2022 - University of West Attica
- Distinguished Paper Award August 2021 - ESEC/FSE 2021
- Pancretan Scholarship of Excellence December 2020 - Pancretan Endowment Fund