About Me

I’m Theodoros, a fifth year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Yale University, advised by Professor Jakub Szefer. My research establishes the architectural foundations for trustworthy hybrid quantum-classical computing , bridging the fields of computer architecture, hardware security, and quantum systems. I focus on uncovering vulnerabilities and building secure architectures for both NISQ and fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) systems. Separately, I am also actively interested in QEC-aware compilers and decoders.

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.

I am on the tenure-track faculty job market.

News 2025

• [Paper Acceptance]: Our paper “TraceQ” got accepted to HPCA 2026. See you in Sydney, Australia!
• [Personal News]: I was selected to attend the IBM Quantum Developer Conference in Atlanta, GA!
• [Personal News]: I won the SandBoxAQ Research Excellence Scholarship!
• [Personal News]: I won the John F. Enders Research Grant!
• [Paper Acceptance]: Our paper “Quantum Circuit Cutting: A Security Methodology” got accepted to IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering 2025 (QCE25). See you in Albuquerque, New Mexico!

News 2024

• [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!

News 2023

• [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.