Evangelos Bitsikas
PhD Student
Research interests
- Aviation, drones, and robotics
- Machine learning applications in cybersecurity
- System security and operations
- Wireless network security
Education
- MS in Cybersecurity, Northeastern University
- PGCert in Advanced Cybersecurity, King's College London — United Kingdom
- BSc in Computer Science, Athens University of Economics and Business — Greece
Biography
Evangelos Bitsikas is a PhD student in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He is advised by Aanjhan Ranganathan.
Bitsikas' work, which has earned him a Google PhD Fellowship in Networking, combines systems engineering and security research to find and fix practical weakness in wireless infrastructures. This includes automated over-the-air security testing for 5G SA devices, security analysis of 5G NR sidelink (V2X), the design of new adaptive 5G networks, privacy and security risks in the eSIM ecosystem, and more. He is also an inventor on a patent application related to SMS side-channel localization.
Outside of research, Bitsikas enjoys traveling, sports, and watching movies.
Recent publications
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eSIMplicity or eSIMplification? Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem
Citation: Maryam Motallebighomi, Jason Veara, Evangelos Bitsikas, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2025). eSIMplicity or eSIMplification? Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem USENIX Security Symposium, 5425-5444. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/presentation/motallebighomi -
Security Analysis of 5G NR Device-to-Device Sidelink Communications
Citation: Evangelos Bitsikas, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2025). Security Analysis of 5G NR Device-to-Device Sidelink Communications CoRR, abs/2502.16650. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.16650 -
ASTRA-5G: Automated Over-the-Air Security Testing and Research Architecture for 5G SA Devices
Citation: Syed Khandker, Michele Guerra, Evangelos Bitsikas, Roger Piqueras Jover, Aanjhan Ranganathan, Christina Pöpper. (2024). ASTRA-5G: Automated Over-the-Air Security Testing and Research Architecture for 5G SA Devices WISEC, 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643833.3656141
