Biography
Dr. Mancoridis serves as the Auerbach Berger Endowed Chair in Cybersecurity and Distinguished Professor of computer science at the College of Computing & Informatics (CCI). He holds a BCSH in computer science from Acadia University and MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto. He joined Drexel's faculty in 1996, has served as interim department head of the
Department of Computer Science, and then as senior associate dean of CCI, and interim dean of CCI. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s 1998 CAREER Award. He served as interim dean of CCI from July 2015 to August 2016. He is a member of the IEEE (senior member), ACM and SIGSOFT. He has authored or co-authored more than 70 refereed technical publications. In 2008, Mancoridis was recognized with an Outstanding Researcher Award from the College of Engineering. His expertise includes autonomic computing, software design and architecture, reverse engineering, software clustering, software visualization, software security, genetic algorithms and software engineering education.
Research Areas
- Computer Security and Privacy
Research Interests
Software engineering, software security, code analysis, evolutionary computation
Academic Distinctions
- 1996: PhD (Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science) University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science.
- Thesis: Controlling the Interactions of Architectural Design Components Using Scoping Rules.
- Supervisor: Prof. Richard C. Holt
- 1992: MSc (Master of Science in Computer Science) University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science.
- Thesis: A Visual Programming Environment for Object-Oriented Turing
- Supervisor: Prof. Richard C. Holt
- 1990: BCSH (Bachelor of Pure and Applied Science with in Computer Science with Honors) Acadia University, Department of Computer Science.