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
- 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
- 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