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Nektarios Georgios Tsoutsos

Nektarios Georgios Tsoutsos 

Nektarios Georgios Tsoutsos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Delaware
Co-Director, FinTech Innovation Hub
Associate Director, Center for Cybersecurity, Assurance, and Privacy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
139 The Green, Evans Hall, Newark, DE 19716

Department of Computer and Information Sciences
18 Amstel Ave, Smith Hall, Newark, DE 19716

FinTech Innovation Hub
591 Collaboration Way, FinTech Innovation Hub, Newark, DE 19713

Office: 201F Evans Hall [Map]
Phone: (302) 831–6655
Email: lastname at udel dot edu [PGP]

Vita

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. I have received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from New York University, and the M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Columbia University. My research interests are in cybersecurity and applied cryptography, with a special focus in hardware security, trustworthy computing, and privacy outsourcing. My research has been recognized with a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in 2023.

At UD, I serve as the Co-Director of the FinTech Innovation Hub (since September 2024) and the Associate Director of the Center for Cybersecurity, Assurance and Privacy (since June 2021). I also serve the State of Delaware as a member of the Cyber Security Advisory Council (appointed May 2025) and the Delaware Blockchain Digital Innovation Task Force (appointed May 2026). In 2025, I was elevated to a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Honors and Awards

  • National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award from the Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace program

  • Recognition: Delaware's 15 Most Influential Business Leaders by the Delaware News Journal (2023)

  • University of Delaware Research Foundation (UDRF) Award in 2021

  • New York University Ph.D. Student Fellowship for the duration of doctoral studies

  • Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award for doctoral research showing the greatest promise (NYU)

  • Deborah Rosenthal Award for outstanding performance on the Ph.D. Qualification Exam (NYU)

  • Advisee Honor: 1st Place Award at CSAW Embedded Security Challenge '18 for designing robust covert channels to exfiltrate sensitive data using IoT smart bulbs (C. Gouert)

  • Advisee Honor: 3rd Place Award at CSAW Hack3D '20 for for reverse engineering additive manufacturing files (N. Kater)

  • Advisee Honor: Graduate Fellowship by the Gerondelis Foundation (D. Mouris)

  • Advisee Honor: 1st Place Award at ECE Research Day '21 for privacy-preserving neural network inference (L. Folkerts and C. Gouert)

  • Advisee Honor: Graduate Faculty Award on Computer Systems & Networks '21 (C. Gouert)

  • Advisee Honor: 1st Place Best Presentation Award at IEEE R2DM Workshop '21 (D. Mouris)

  • Advisee Honor: 2nd Place Best Presentation Award at IEEE R2DM Workshop '21 (L. Folkerts)

  • Advisee Honor: Graduate Block Funding Fellowship of ECE department '21 (C. Gouert)

  • Advisee Honor: Excellence in Teaching Award of UD's College of Engineering '22 (L. Folkerts)

  • Advisee Honor: 1st Place Award at ECE Research Day '22 for attacks in privacy-preserving multi-exit neural networks (L. Folkerts)

  • Advisee Honor: Graduate Fellowship Finalist in 2022 by NVIDIA (C. Gouert)

  • Advisee Honor: Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence of UD's Graduate College in 2023 (C. Gouert)

  • Advisee Honor: Travel Grant from NDSS Symposium '23 (L. Folkerts)

  • Advisee Honor: Travel Grant from PETS Symposium '23 (D. Mouris)

  • Advisee Honor: 1st Place Award at ECE Research Day '23 for Accelerated Encrypted Computing on GPUs (C. Gouert)

  • Advisee Honor: First-year Scholarship of UD's ECE department '24 (O. Gutierrez)

  • Advisee Honor: ECE Faculty Award for Computer Engineering '24 (L. Folkerts)

  • Advisee Honor: Builder Bounty 2024 Award by Nillion for secure biometric authentication using private facial recognition (O. Ahmed, L. Folkerts)

  • Advisee Honor: Best Paper Award Candidate at the IEEE ICCD '25 conference (R. Shokri)

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