About Me

I’m Theodoros Trochatos (in Greek they call me Θοδωρή, but you can call me Theo, my efforts are futile at this point) and I am a fourth year PhD student in Electrical Engineering at Yale University, where I am fortunate enough to be advised by Professor Jakub Szefer. My current research interests include the broad area of hardware security, specializing (but not limited) on uncovering security vulnerabilities and building defenses for quantum computers.

Before joining Yale, I received my bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. I will be forever grateful to have been supervised by Prof. Dionisios Pnevmatikatos and Prof. Vasilis Karakostas in my diploma thesis studying side-channels attacks due to speculative execution and their defenses.

News

[Personal News]: I was selected for the ACM Student Research Competition at MICRO 2024. See you in Austin, Texas!
[Personal News]: I was selected to present my thesis in the Doctoral Symposium at ACM CCS 2024. See you in Salt Lake City, Utah!
[Paper Acceptance]: Our paper “Protecting Quantum Computers with a Trusted Controller” got accepted to IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering 2024 (QCE24). See you in Montréal, Canada!
[Personal News]: For summer 2024, I will be joining Caterpillar in Chicago, Illinois, as a Corporate Intern in ML/AI and Gen AI models.
[Paper Award]: Extending and Defending Attacks on Reset Operations in Quantum Computers awarded the Best Paper Award in SEED 2024!
[Paper Acceptance]: CASQUE paper got accepted to IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) 2024.
[Paper Acceptance]: Extending and Defending Attacks on Reset Operations in Quantum Computers got accepted to International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED) 2024.
[Personal News]: I won the 3-Minutes Thesis competition of the Engineering division at Yale and qualified for the final round!
[Paper Award]: Our paper A Quantum Computer Trusted Execution Environment is the winner of the Best of CAL for 2023 and will be presented in International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2024. See you in Edinburgh, Scotland!
[Paper Acceptance]: Our paper Covert-channels in FPGA-enabled SmartSSDs got accepted to ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems journal and will appear during the main program of FPT 2023 in Yokohama, Japan.
[Paper acceptance]: A Quantum Computer Trusted Execution Environment accepted in the IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 2023.
[Personal News]: By the end of summer 2023, I was awarded the Gerondelis Foundation Award and the A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship!
[Paper acceptance]: Design of Quantum Computer Antivirus got accepted to HOST 2023.
[Personal News]: I am attending the ACACES 2022 summer school in Fiuggi, Italy!
[Paper acceptance]: Our paper, Towards and antivirus for quantum computers, got accepted to HOST 2022.