Meet Our Team
John Carter
PhD student at Drexel University studying under Dr. Spiros Mancoridis and Dr. Pavlos Protopapas at Harvard University.
Education
M.Sc. in Computer Science from Drexel University
Research
Router security, anomaly detection, machine learning, IoT security, and malware detection.
Recent Work
Co-author of "sysBERT: Improved Behavioral Malware Detection using BERT Trained on sys2vec Embeddings" (HICSS 2025)
Spiros Mancoridis, Ph.D.
Auerbach Berger Endowed Chair in Cybersecurity and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto
Research
Software security, reverse engineering, autonomic computing, software design and architecture, and genetic algorithms. Author of over 100 refereed technical publications.
Awards
National Science Foundation's CAREER Award (1998), Outstanding Researcher Award from Drexel's College of Engineering (2008)
Recent Work
Co-author of "sysBERT: Improved Behavioral Malware Detection using BERT Trained on sys2vec Embeddings" (HICSS 2025)
Pavlos Protopapas, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Director at the Institute for Applied Computational Science at Harvard University.
Education
Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania
Research
Physics, applied machine learning
Recent Work
Co-author of "sysBERT: Improved Behavioral Malware Detection using BERT Trained on sys2vec Embeddings" (HICSS 2025)