Nikos Vasilakis

Nikos Vasilakis is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, affiliated with the Brown Data Science Institute and the Archimedes Unit on AI and Data Science. His research focuses on software systems, programming languages, and computer security, with emphasis on automated program analysis, parallelization, and supply-chain security. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

• Current affiliations: Brown University School of Engineering, ATLAS research group
• Industrial collaborations: technologies applied in software supply-chain security and open-source ecosystems

Research interests include enhancing program capabilities through automation, securing software dependencies, and enabling scalable distributed systems. Key projects include BinWrap (Node.js security), PaSh (shell parallelization), and systems for automated regeneration of programs.

Recent awards: ACM ASIACCS '23 Distinguished Paper Award for BinWrap. Active in organizing EuroSec'25 and Brown Systems Week. Current courses include Distributed Computing Systems (CS1380) and Systems Transforming Systems (CS1952R).

Labs/Teams: Leads the ATLAS group, which collaborates on systems research and secure computing paradigms. Current students/postdocs focus on topics like shell script parallelization, decentralized computing, and confidential computing transformations.