Apostolos Mavrogiannakis

About Me

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I work on scalable privacy-preserving systems and applied cryptography. My research focuses on developing practical cryptographic protocols that enable secure computation over sensitive data while meeting the demanding efficiency guarantees of real-world applications.

I am particularly interested in the intersection of theory and practice — designing cryptographic systems that are not only provably secure but also efficient enough for real-world deployment. My recent work introduces scalable oblivious operators for secure databases in shared-memory environments.