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Dimitri Kokkonis

I'm a PhD student in the BINSEC team, working under the supervision of Stefano Zacchiroli and Michaël Marcozzi. My research is focused on automating the detection of advanced vulnerabilities in binary programs. I graduated from Polytech Sorbonne in 2020 with a Master's degree in Embedded Systems.

I like to code and generally tinker around with stuff and I've been doing it since I was little. I also have a YouTube channel where I upload programming and electronics tutorials (in greek) (sometimes).

I enjoy doing other things too, like (both experiencing and writing/performing) music and theater, as well as going climbing/bouldering.

I would really like to go to space some day.

publications

• ROSA: Finding Backdoors with Fuzzing ‧ Dimitri Kokkonis, Michaël Marcozzi, Emilien Decoux, Stefano Zacchiroli

  47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'25) ‧ Ottawa, ON, Canada

  

  🏆 Award winner: Best Artifact

  [10.1109/ICSE55347.2025.00183] [preprint] [bibtex] [slides] [artifact] [rosa] [rosarum]

teaching

• Intro to Fuzzing

  Télécom SudParis ‧ Paris, France ‧ Jan 2025 ‧ 3 hours

  Creation and supervision of an introductory fuzzing lab for final-year engineering students. The lab was taught in both English and French.

• Algorithms and programming (IN101)

  ENSTA Paris ‧ Paris, France ‧ Oct 2023 - Jan 2024, Oct 2024 - Feb 2025 ‧ 27 hours

  Supervision of the lab/seminar sessions of IN101, an introductory algorithms course based on C for first-year engineering students.

• From logic gates to operating systems (INF107)

  Télécom Paris ‧ Paris, France ‧ Sep 2024 - Oct 2024 ‧ 19.5 hours

  Supervision of the lab/seminar sessions of INF107 (ECE_3TC31_TP), a course exploring the full stack of a computer, starting from logic gates and building up to operating systems.

• Web Development (INF203)

  Télécom Paris ‧ Paris, France ‧ Feb 2024 - Apr 2024 ‧ 9 hours

  Supervision of the lab/seminar sessions of INF203, a web development and web security course for second-year engineering students. The course was fully taught in English.

• Finding Software Vulnerabilities with Fuzzing: Capture The Flag

  Summer School on Security Testing and Verification ‧ Brussels, Belgium ‧ Sep 2023 ‧ 3 hours

  Co-presentation with my PhD supervisor Dr. Michaël Marcozzi. Specifically, I performed a demo of how to use AFL++ followed by a capture-the-flag challenge.

  [slides]

talks

• Automatic backdoor detection at the binary level

  16ème Workshop Interdisciplinaire sur la Sécurité Globale (WISG'24) ‧ Rennes, France ‧ Mar 2024

  🏆 Best short presentation award (1st place)

• Software Composition Analysis using open-source tools

  Open Source Experience ‧ Paris, France ‧ Nov 2021

  [video]