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General Information

Full Name Konstantinos-Nikolaos Papadopoulos
Email [email protected]
Location Chicago, IL, USA
Languages Greek (Native), English (TOEFL iBT 108/120), German (B2 level)

Education

  • 2025–30 (exp.)
    PhD in Computer Engineering
    Northwestern University
    • Advisor: Prof. Jakub Szefer
    • Research interests: quantum computing security, modular quantum architectures, quantum computer architecture
  • 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
  • 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

  • 2024-present
    Researcher - Security of Quantum Computers
    Northwestern University
    • Advisor: Prof. Jakub Szefer
    • Designing quantum circuit obfuscation schemes for untrusted quantum computing cloud providers
  • 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
  • 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

Teaching Experience

Honors and Awards

  • 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)
  • 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

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Research/Engineering Activities

  • 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)