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General Information
Full Name | Konstantinos-Nikolaos Papadopoulos |
[email protected] | |
Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
Languages | Greek (Native), English (TOEFL iBT 108/120), German (B2 level) |
Education
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2025–30 (exp.) PhD in Computer Engineering
Northwestern University - Advisor: Prof. Jakub Szefer
- Research interests: quantum computing security, modular quantum architectures, quantum computer architecture
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2018–24 Joint BSc and MSc Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Technical University of Athens - GPA: 8.91/10 (top 5% of cohort)
- Related courses: Advanced Computer Architecture, Multi-Body Physics and Quantum Computers, Compilers, Digital VLSI Systems, Operating Systems, Wave and Quantum Physics
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2023 Master thesis (visiting exchange student)
Technical University of Denmark - Advisors: Prof. Dionisios Pnevmatikatos (NTUA), Prof. José M.G. Merayo (DTU Space)
- Title: Microarchitectural Approaches to Fault Tolerance in Spaceborne Processors
Experience
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2024-present Researcher - Security of Quantum Computers
Northwestern University - Advisor: Prof. Jakub Szefer
- Designing quantum circuit obfuscation schemes for untrusted quantum computing cloud providers
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2024-25 Researcher - Hardware Security for Machine Learning
National Technical University of Athens / IMDEA - Advisors: Prof. Dionisios Pnevmatikatos (NTUA) and Prof. Thaleia Doudali (IMDEA SW Institute)
- Designed a remote power side channel attack for FPGA LLM inference accelerators
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2023–24 Researcher - Microarchitectural Fault Tolerance
National Technical University of Athens / Technical University of Denmark - Advisors: Prof. Dionisios Pnevmatikatos (NTUA) and Prof. José M.G. Meray (DTU)
- Evaluated microarchitectural hardware fault detection in different safety-critical application scenarios
Publications
- Full list available at: Google Scholar
Teaching Experience
- Full details available at: teaching
Honors and Awards
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2020 - “Supporting Equity in Education" Award for Excellence — Awarded by the 2nd Experimental High-school of Athens for promoting educational equity through the “CS for All" program
- NASA “Space Apps Challenge Hackathon" Winner — 1st place nationwide and Global nominee for development of a mobile game motivating users to observe the night sky (github)
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2017 - NCSR Democritos Internship Award — Issued by the National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics “Democritos” to the top 4 students from over 300 participants passing qualifying exams
Service
- See full service record at: service
Research/Engineering Activities
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2021–22 Embedded/Motor control engineer
Prometheus Eco Racing NTUA Student Team - Member of student research team building efficient electric vehicles for global engineering competitions
- Developed embedded firmware for motor control
- Organized and presented two conference tutorials:
- “Embedded AI: application in real-time electric motor predictive maintenance", 13th Pan-Hellenic Electrical - Computer Engineering Students’ Conference, University of Patras (abstract, github)
- “Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Random Optimisation", 12th Pan-Hellenic Electrical - Computer Engineering Students’ Conference, University of Patras (held remote)