Konstantinou Elisavet

address   University of Patras Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics 26500 Rio-Patra, Hellas office phone +30 2610 960445 email konstane@ceid.upatras.gr office Building B

Personal
	07/05 PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, titled "Theory and Applications of Public Key Cryptosystems based on Elliptic Curves" since 10/01 PhD student and teaching assistant in the Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece (supervised by Prof. Christos Zaroliagis) 06/01 Master in Signal and Image Processing Systems from the Computer Science Department, University of Patras,Greece. since 09/00 Scientific Partner at Computer Technology Institute, Greece. 06/99 Bachelor in Computer Science from the Computer Science Department, University of Ioannina, Greece.

Teaching
	At Computer Engineering and Informatics Department: winter semester Teaching assistant for the postgraduate course Selected Topics in Algorithms and the undergraduate course Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization

Research
	Areas of interest include: elliptic curve cryptography pseudorandom generators algorithm engineering number theory signal and image processing

Publications

E. Konstantinou, V. Liagkou, P. Spirakis, Y. Stamatiou, M. Yung, "Trust Engineering: from requirements to system design and maintenance -- a working national lottery system experience" in Information Security Conference - ISC 2005, LNCS 3650, Springer, pp.44-58, 2005. E. Konstantinou, A. Kontogeorgis, Y. Stamatiou, C. Zaroliagis, "Generating Prime Order Elliptic Curves: Difficulties and Efficiency Considerations" in International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2004, LNCS 3506, Springer, pp.261-278, 2005. E.Konstantinou, Y. Stamatiou, C. Zaroliagis, "On the Use of Weber Polynomials in Elliptic Curve Cryptography" in Public Key Infrastructure: First European PKI Workshop, Research and Applications - EuroPKI 2004, LNCS 3093, Springer, pp.335-349, 2004. E. Konstantinou, V. Liagkou, P. Spirakis, Y. Stamatiou, M. Yung, "Electronic National Lotteries" in Financial Cryptography - FC 2004, LNCS 3110, Springer, pp.147-163, 2004. E. Konstantinou, Y. Stamatiou, C. Zaroliagis, "On the Construction of Prime Order Elliptic Curves" in Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2003 , LNCS 2904, Springer, pp.309-322, 2003. E. Konstantinou, Y.C. Stamatiou, C. Zaroliagis, "On the selection of class field polynomials in elliptic curve cryptography" Technical Report CTI TR 2003/06/01. E. Konstantinou, Y. Stamatiou, C. Zaroliagis, "On the Efficient Generation of Elliptic Curves over Prime Fields" in Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2002, LNCS 2523, Springer, pp.333-348, 2002. E. Konstantinou, Y. Stamatiou, C. Zaroliagis, "A Software Library for Elliptic Curve Cryptography" in European Symposium on Algorithms - ESA 2002 (Engineering and Applications Track), LNCS 2461, Springer, pp.625-637, 2002. The library is available in ECC_LIB