Dr. Petros Efstathopoulos is a Sr Technical Director at Symantec Research Labs in Culver City, CA. He holds Ph.D. And M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (NTUA). During his Ph.D. he worked on the Asbestos operating system, which introduced decentralized information flow control to contain the effects of bugs and provide improved security.
Dr. Efstathopoulos has worked on the design and implementation of a variety of computer systems, including operating systems and kernel development, storage and file systems, security, distributed systems, virtualization, and systems networking. Since joining Symantec Research Labs in 2009 he focused particularly on next-generation storage/backup systems, portable storage security, network security and privacy. As a member of SRL he has authored multiple research papers and numerous patents. He is currently leading the Symantec Research Labs team in Europe.
Harbormaster: Policy Enforcement for Containers Mingwei Zhang, Daniel Marino, Petros Efstathopoulos. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom'15)
Building a High-performance Deduplication System Fanglu Guo, Petros Efstathopoulos, 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC ’11), Conference Best Paper Award
Selected academic papers:
- Harbormaster: Policy Enforcement for Containers
Mingwei Zhang, Daniel Marino, Petros Efstathopoulos. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom'15)
- Building a High-performance Deduplication System
Fanglu Guo, Petros Efstathopoulos, 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC ’11), Conference Best Paper Award.