I am an R&D Engineer at Technical University of Crete (TUC), and a AI Consultant at the Distributed Computing Systems and Cybersecurity (DiSCS) Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. My research interests include Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Explainable AI and Data Analytics.
Publications
Fingerprinting the Shadows: Unmasking Malicious Servers with Machine Learning-Powered TLS Analysis
2024 - ACM on Web Conference
Authors: Andreas Theofanous, Eva Papadogiannaki, Alexander Shevtsov and Sotiris Ioannidis
WRIT: Web Request Integrity and Attestation against Malicious Browser Extensions
2023 - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Authors: Giorgos Vasiliadis, Apostolos Karampelas, Alexandros Shevtsov, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Sotiris Ioannidis, Alexandros Kapravelos
Russo-Ukrainian War: Prediction and explanation of Twitter suspension
2023 - International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
Authors: Alexander Shevtsov, Despoina Antonakaki, Ioannis Lamprou, Ioannis Kontogiorgakis, Polyvios Pratikakis and Sotiris Ioannidis
What Tweets and YouTube comments have in common? Sentiment and graph analysis on data related to US elections 2020
2023 - Plos one
Authors: Alexander Shevtsov, Maria Oikonomidou, Despoina Antonakaki, Polyvios Pratikakis, Sotiris Ioannidis
Identification of twitter bots based on an explainable machine learning framework: the US 2020 elections case study
2022 - International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Authors: Alexander Shevtsov, Christos Tzagkarakis, Despoina Antonakaki, Sotiris Ioannidis
Explainable machine learning pipeline for Twitter bot detection during the 2020 US Presidential Elections
2022 - Software Impacts (Elsevier)
Authors: Alexander Shevtsov, Christos Tzagkarakis, Despoina Antonakaki, Sotiris Ioannidis
Discovery and classification of Twitter bots
2022 - SN Computer Science (Springer Nature Singapore)
Authors: Alexander Shevtsov, Maria Oikonomidou, Despoina Antonakaki, Polyvios Pratikakis, Alexandros Kanterakis, Paraskevi Fragopoulou, Sotiris Ioannidis