Publications

Tianyi Ma, Francesca Toni, Soteris Demetriou (2026). ArgMLLMs: Argumentative Multimodal Safety Judgements with Contestable Reasoning. Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on EXplainable, Trustworthy, and Responsible AI and Multi-Agent Systems (EXTRAAMAS 2026).

Mansi, Avinash Kori, Francesca Toni, Soteris Demetriou (2026). Selective Fine-Tuning for Targeted and Robust Concept Unlearning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.07919.

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Anastasios Lepipas, Dominika C Woszczyk, Yiying Guan, Soteris Demetriou, others (2025). Understanding Dementia Speech Alignment with Diffusion-Based Image Generation. Proc. Interspeech 2025.

Anastasios Lepipas, Marios Charalambides, Jiani Liu, Yiying Guan, Dominika C Woszczyk, Thanh Hai Le, Soteris Demetriou (2025). Leaky Diffusion: Attribute Leakage in Text-Guided Image Generation. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

Dominika Woszczyk, Soteris Demetriou (2025). DiDOTS: Knowledge Distillation from Large-Language-Models for Dementia Obfuscation in Transcribed Speech. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

Dominika C Woszczyk, Ranya Aloufi, Soteris Demetriou (2025). ClaritySpeech: Dementia Obfuscation in Speech. Proc. Interspeech 2025.

Matt Guo, Soteris Demetriou, Joey Yang, Michael Leighton, Diedi Hu, Tong Bao, Amit Adhikari, Thawan Kooburat, Annie Kim, Chunqiang Tang (2024). MobileConfig: Remote Configuration Management for Mobile Apps at Hyperscale. 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24).

Anastasios Lepipas, Anastasia Borovykh, Soteris Demetriou (2024). Username Squatting on Online Social Networks: A Study on X. Proceedings of the 19th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

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Richard Capraru, Emil C. Lupu, Soteris Demetriou, Jian-Gang Wang, Boon Hee Soong (2024). Rain-Reaper: Unmasking LiDAR-based Detector Vulnerabilities in Rain. 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Dominika Woszczyk, Ranya Aloufi, Soteris Demetriou (2024). Prosody-Driven Privacy-Preserving Dementia Detection. Interspeech.

Chengzeng You, Zhongyuan Hau, Binbin Xu, Soteris Demetriou (2024). Adversarial 3D Virtual Patches using Integrated Gradients. 2024 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW).

Alireza Sahraei, Soteris Demetriou, Amirali Sobhgol, Haoran Zhang, Abhigna Nagaraja, Neeraj Pathak, Girish Joshi, Carla Souza, Bo Huang, Wyatt Cook, Andrii Golovei, Pradeep Venkat, Andrew Mcfague, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Vipul Patel, Ravinder Thind, Ernesto Gonzalez, Yun Jin, Chunqiang Tang (2023). XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta. Proceedings of the 29th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 23).

Harshit Saokar, Soteris Demetriou, Nick Magerko, Max Kontorovich, Josh Kirstein, Margot Leibold, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Hitesh Khandelwal, Chunqiang Tang (2023). ServiceRouter: Hyperscale and Minimal Cost Service Mesh at Meta. 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 23).

Hsiao-Ying Huang, Soteris Demetriou, Muhammad Hassan, Güliz Seray Tuncay, Carl A Gunter, Masooda Bashir (2023). Evaluating User Behavior in Smartphone Security: A Psychometric Perspective. USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).

Boris Grubic, Yang Wang, Tyler Petrochko, Ran Yaniv, Brad Jones, David Callies, Matt Clarke-Lauer, Dan Kelley, Soteris Demetriou, Kenny Yu, others (2023). Conveyor: One-Tool-Fits-All Continuous Software Deployment at Meta. 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 23).

Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin, José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón, Lynne Coventry, Soteris Demetriou, Charles Weir (2022). Vision: Design Fiction for Cybersecurity: Using Science Fiction to Help Software Developers Anticipate Problems. Proceedings of the 2022 European Symposium on Usable Security.

Zhongyuan Hau, Soteris Demetriou, Emil C Lupu (2022). Using 3D Shadows to Detect Object Hiding Attacks on Autonomous Vehicle Perception. 2022 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW).

Dominika Woszczyk, Anna Hlédiková, Alican Akman, Soteris Demetriou, Björn W. Schuller (2022). Data Augmentation for Dementia Detection in Spoken Language. Interspeech 2022, 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Incheon, Korea, 18-22 September 2022.

Chengzeng You, Zhongyuan Hau, Soteris Demetriou (2021). Temporal consistency checks to detect LiDAR spoofing attacks on autonomous vehicle perception. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Security and Privacy for Mobile AI.

Zhongyuan Hau, Soteris Demetriou, Luis Muñoz-González, Emil C Lupu (2021). Shadow-catcher: Looking into shadows to detect ghost objects in autonomous vehicle 3d sensing. Computer Security–ESORICS 2021: 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Darmstadt, Germany, October 4–8, 2021, Proceedings, Part I 26.

Fan Mo, Anastasia Borovykh, Mohammad Malekzadeh, Soteris Demetriou, Deniz Gündüz, Hamed Haddadi (2021). Quantifying and Localizing Usable Information Leakage from Neural Network Gradients. arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13929.

Dominika Woszczyk, Alvin Lee, Soteris Demetriou (2021). Open, Sesame! Introducing Access Control to Voice Services. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Security and Privacy for Mobile AI.

Zhongyuan Hau, T Kenneth, Soteris Demetriou, Emil C Lupu (2021). Object Removal Attacks on LiDAR-based 3D Object Detectors. Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security (AutoSec).

Fan Mo, Anastasia Borovykh, Mohammad Malekzadeh, Hamed Haddadi, Soteris Demetriou (2021). Layer-wise characterization of latent information leakage in federated learning. Distributed and Private Machine Learning (DPML) workshop..

Sojhal Ismail Khan, Dominika C Woszczyk, Chengzeng You, Soteris Demetriou, Muhammad Naveed (2021). Characterizing Improper Input Validation Vulnerabilities of Mobile Crowdsourcing Services. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference.

Soteris Demetriou, Puneet Jain (2020). Determination of a next state of multiple IoT devices within an environment. Google Patents.

XiaoFeng Wang, Kan Yuan, Xiaoyong Zhou, Muhammad Naveed, Soteris Demetriou, Carl Gunter (2020). External resource control of mobile devices. Google Patents.

Fan Mo, Ali Shahin Shamsabadi, Kleomenis Katevas, Soteris Demetriou, Ilias Leontiadis, Andrea Cavallaro, Hamed Haddadi (2020). Darknetz: towards model privacy at the edge using trusted execution environments. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services.

Puneet Jain, Soteris Demetriou, Kyu-Han Kim (2019). Determining car positions. Google Patents.

Thomas Bower, Sergio Maffeis, Soteris Demetriou (2019). Identifying JavaScript skimmers on high-value websites. Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College London.

Avesta Hojjati, Yunhui Long, Soteris Demetriou, Carl A Gunter (2019). BEEER: distributed record and replay for medical devices in hospital operating rooms. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Symposium on Hot Topics in the Science of Security.

Soteris Demetriou, Nathaniel D Kaufman, Jonah Baim, Adam J Goldsher, Carl A Gunter (2018). Toward an Extensible Framework for Redaction. 1st International Workshop on Security and Privacy for the Internet-of-Things.

Güliz Seray Tuncay, Soteris Demetriou, Karan Ganju, C Gunter (2018). Resolving the predicament of android custom permissions. The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).

Soteris Demetriou, Puneet Jain, Kyu-Han Kim (2018). Codrive: Improving automobile positioning via collaborative driving. IEEE INFOCOM 2018-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications.

Demetriou Soteris (2018). Analyzing & Designing the Security of Shared Resources on Smartphone Operating Systems.

Nan Zhang, Soteris Demetriou, Xianghang Mi, Wenrui Diao, Kan Yuan, Peiyuan Zong, Feng Qian, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Chen, Yuan Tian, others (2017). Understanding IoT security through the data crystal ball: Where we are now and where we are going to be. arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09809.

Soteris Demetriou, Nan Zhang, Yeonjoon Lee, XiaoFeng Wang, Carl A Gunter, Xiaoyong Zhou, Michael Grace (2017). HanGuard: SDN-driven protection of smart home WiFi devices from malicious mobile apps. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks.

Yeonjoon Lee, Tongxin Li, Nan Zhang, Soteris Demetriou, Mingming Zha, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Chen, Xiaoyong Zhou, Xinhui Han, Michael Grace (2017). Ghost installer in the shadow: Security analysis of app installation on android. 2017 47th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN).

Animesh Srivastava, Puneet Jain, Soteris Demetriou, Landon P Cox, Kyu-Han Kim (2017). CamForensics: Understanding visual privacy leaks in the wild. Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems.

Soteris Demetriou, Whitney Merrill, Wei Yang, Aston Zhang, Carl A Gunter (2016). Free for all! assessing user data exposure to advertising libraries on android.. The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).

Güliz Seray Tuncay, Soteris Demetriou, Carl A Gunter (2016). Draco: A system for uniform and fine-grained access control for web code on android. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

Soteris Demetriou, Xiao-yong Zhou, Muhammad Naveed, Yeonjoon Lee, Kan Yuan, XiaoFeng Wang, Carl A Gunter (2015). What's in Your Dongle and Bank Account? Mandatory and Discretionary Protection of Android External Resources.. The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).

Muhammad Naveed, Xiao-yong Zhou, Soteris Demetriou, XiaoFeng Wang, Carl A Gunter (2014). Inside Job: Understanding and Mitigating the Threat of External Device Mis-Binding on Android.. The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).

Soteris Demetriou (2014). Android at risk: current threats stemming from unprotected local and external resources.

Xiaoyong Zhou, Soteris Demetriou, Dongjing He, Muhammad Naveed, Xiaorui Pan, XiaoFeng Wang, Carl A Gunter, Klara Nahrstedt (2013). Identity, location, disease and more: Inferring your secrets from android public resources. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security.

Christos Sintoris, Nikoleta Yiannoutsou, Soteris Demetriou, Nikolaos M Avouris (2013). Discovering the invisible city: Location-based games for learning in smart cities.. IxD&A.

Christos Sintoris, Dimitrios Raptis, Nikoleta Yiannoutsou, Sotirios Dimitriou, Nikolaos Avouris (2011). Content creation by end users for location-sensitive mobile educational games. Proceedings, IS-EUD 2011 Workshop Involving End Users and Domain Experts in Design of Educational Games.