Nicolas Sklavos

Position: Professor, Director of SCYTALE Group
Research Areas: Cybersecurity, Hardware Security, Cryptography, Hardware Design, Embedded Systems
Phone: +30 2610 996 383
E-mail: nsklavos AT upatras DOT gr, nsklavos AT ieee DOT org

Table of Contents

Scientific Activities

A. Scientific Committees and Task Forces

  • Member of ACM Europe Awards Group, (2025-today).
  • Task Force CS2023: ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI Computer Science Curricula, (2022-today).
    1. Member of Global Representation Board, 
    2. Member of Knowledge Area: Security Board. 
  • EURASIP, Technical Area Committee Member, BForSec: Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security, (2024-today).
  • IEEE Standards Association: Cyber Security for Next Generation Connectivity Systems Board Member, (2022-2026).
  • Judge in the IEEEDuino Student Hardware Contest 2025, 2024.
  • Chair of IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group, Greece Section, (2007-2016).

B. International Publishers

  • Associate Editor, ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP), (2022-today).
  • Associate Editor, IEEE VLSI Circuits and Systems Letter, (2019-today).
  • Editor-in-Chief, Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, The Official Journal of (ISC)2, A Taylor & Francis Group Publication, (2011-2014).
  • Associate Editor, IET Networks, (2021-2024).
  • Handling Editor, Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design (MICPRO), Elsevier, (2018-2022).
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Latin America Transactions, (2010-2013).
  • Associate Editor, Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, (2007-2015).
  • Associate Editor, Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, The Official Journal of (ISC)2, A Taylor & Francis Group Publication, (2009-2020).
  • Nicolas Sklavos, Nesrine Kaaniche, Special Issue on: “On the Design of Secure Primitives for Real World Applications”, Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design (MICPRO), Elsevier, Vol. 80, 2021.
  • Nicolas Sklavos, Sherali Zeadally, Cristina Alcaraz Tello, Special Issue on: “Modern Trends in Applied Security: Architectures, Implementations and Applications”, Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier Science Press, Vol. 37, Number 02, 2011.
  • Nicolas Sklavos, Maire McLoone, Xinmiao Zhang, Special Issue on: “Next Generation Hardware Architectures for Secure Mobile Computing”, Mobile, Networks and Applications (MONET), Springer-Verlag Publishers, Vol. 12, Number 4, pp. 229-230, 2007.
  • Paris Kitsos, Nicolas Sklavos, Special Issue on: “Security of Computers & Networks”, Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier Science Press, Vol. 33, Numbers 5-6, September-November, 2007.

C. International Conferences

Chair Positions

  • General Co-Chair, 2026 IEEE CSR Workshop on Hardware Cybersecurity Systems (HACS), Lisbon, Portugal, August 3-5, 2026.
  • Publication Co-Chair, 11th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference, (SEEDA-CECNSM 2026), Thessaloniki, Hellas, September 18-20, 2026.
  • General Co-Chair, 2025 IEEE CSR Workshop on Hardware Cybersecurity Systems (HACS), Chania – Crete, Hellas, August 4-6, 2025.
  • General Chair, 2024 IEEE CSR Workshop on Hardware Cybersecurity Systems (HACS), London, UK, September 2-4, 2024.
  • Program Co-Chair, 2024 PAnhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET), Thessaloniki, Hellas, March 28-29, 2024.
  • General Chair, 2023 IEEE CSR Workshop on Hardware Cybersecurity Systems (HACS), Venice, Italy, July 31 – August 2, 2023.
  • Local Chair, 30th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration 2022 (VLSI-SOC’22), Patra, Hellas, October 3-5, 2022.
  • Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, 1st International Workshop on Social Internet of Anything (SIoA’22), collocated with the 18th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob’22), Thessaloniki, Hellas, October 10, 2022.
  • Publicity Co-Chair, 3rd International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT’22), Qingdao, China, May 20-22, 2022.
  • General Chair, 2nd IFIP NTMS CyberSecurity on Hardware Workshop 2021 (CyberSECHARD’21), in conjunction with the 11th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS’21), Paris, France, April 19-21, 2021.
  • Keynote/Tutorial Chair, 11th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS’21), Paris, France, April 19-21, 2021.
  • Publicity Chair, Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure Devices Workshop, Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE’20), Paris, France, March 09-13, 2020.
  • Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE 32nd International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM’20), Jordan, December 14-17, 2020.
  • General Chair, 1st IFIP NTMS CyberSecurity on Hardware Workshop 2019 (CyberSECHARD’19), in conjunction with the 10th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), Canary Islands, Spain, June 24-26, 2019.
  • Publicity Chair, PAnhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET’19), Volos, Hellas, November 8-9, 2019.
  • Publicity Chair, International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS’19), Crete, Hellas, May 5-7, 2019.
  • Publicity Chair, 19th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design, Architectures, Methods, Tools (DSD’16), Limassol, Cyprus, August 31 – September 2, 2016.
  • Program Committee Vice-Chair, Workshop on Trustworthy Manufacturing and Utilization of Secure Devices (TRUDEVICE’16), in conjunction with Design Automation and Test in Europe 2016 (DATE’16), Dresden, Germany, March 14-16, 2016.
  • Liaison Chair, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium in VLSI 2015 (IEEE ISVLSI’15), Montpellier, France, July 8-10, 2015.
  • Liaison Chair, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium in VLSI 2014 (IEEE ISVLSI’14), Florida, USA, July 9-11, 2014.
  • Publicity Chair, 4th FTRA International Conference on Information Technology Convergence and Services (ITCS-12), Amherst, USA, August 19-21, 2012.
  • Steering Committee Member, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium in VLSI 2011 (IEEE ISVLSI’12), Amherst, USA, August 19-21, 2012.
  • Liaison Chair, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium in VLSI 2011 (IEEE ISVLSI’12), Amherst, USA, August 19-21, 2012.
  • Publicity Chair, 5th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS’12), Turkey, May 7-10, 2012.
  • Publications Chair, 21st International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL’11), Chania, Greece, September 5-7, 2011.
  • Steering Committee Member, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium in VLSI 2011 (IEEE ISVLSI’11), Chennai, India, July 4-6, 2011.
  • Publicity Chair, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium in VLSI 2011 (IEEE ISVLSI’11), Chennai, India, July 4-6, 2011.
  • Security Track Program Chair, 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS’11), France, February 7-10, 2011.
  • Program Chair, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium in VLSI 2010 (IEEE ISVLSI’10), Kefallinia, Greece, July 5-7, 2010.
  • Symposium Chair, “Communication and Information Security Symposium”, IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Information Security (IEEE WCNIS2010), China, June 25-27, 2010.
  • Workshops Chair, Third International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS’09), Egypt, December 20 – 23, 2009.
  • Program Committee Member, The 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Network Evolution and Routing Innovation (Routing’09), China, December 12-14, 2009.
  • Local Organizing Chair, 12th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design, Architectures, Methods, Tools, Greece, August 27-29, 2009.
  • Program Co-Chair, IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Security (N2S), France, June 24-26, 2009.
  • Publicity Co-Chair, 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (IEEE HPCC-2009), Korea, June 25-27, 2009.
  • General Co-Chair, Workshop on Security of Communication Systems (SCS), in conjunction with 3rd IEEE International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications (IEEE ICTTA’08), Syria, April 07-11, 2008.
  • General Co-Chair, 3rd International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia’07), Technically co-sponsored by ACM, Nafpaktos, Greece, August 27-29, 2007.
  • Publicity Co-Chair, the 2007 International Workshop on Service, Security and Its Data Management for Ubiquitous Computing (SSDU’07), in conjunction with the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD’07), China, May 22-25, 2007.

Committees Membership 2026, (tentative list, previous years are archived)

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D. Scientific Member

  • Senior Member of IEEE, (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers).
  • Professional Member of ACM, (Association for Computing Machinery).
  • Associated Member of HiPEAC, (European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation).
  • Member of IACR, (International Association for Cryptologic Research).