Bio
Pantelitsa Leonidou is a Special Scientist-C Researcher at the Network Systems and Science Research Laboratory since 2020 and a PhD Student at the Cyprus University of Technology since 2021. Her primary interests lie in user (cyber)safety and pertinent cybersecurity matters, with a specific focus on online social media platforms. She actively works to address concerns related to digital harm, including abusive content and the dissemination of false information, aiming to promote a safer online environment for users.
In 2022, she received her MSc in Data Science and Engineering from the Cyprus University of Technology.
In 2019, she received her BSc in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus.
Publications
- Nikos Salamanos, Pantelitsa Leonidou, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Michael Sirivianos, Maria Aspri, Marius Paraschiv. "HyperGraphDis: Leveraging Hypergraphs for Contextual and Social-Based Disinformation Detection". International AAAI Conference On Web And Social Media (ICWSM), 2024. pdf
- Pantelitsa Leonidou, Nikos Salamanos, Aristeidis Farao, Maria Aspri, Michael Sirivianos. A Qualitative Analysis of Illicit Arms Trafficking on Darknet Marketplaces. 3rd International Workshop on Advances on Privacy Preserving Technologies and Solutions (IWAPS) co-located with the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security(ARES), 2023. pdf
- Pantelitsa Leonidou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Nikos Salamanos, Michael Sirivianos. "Privacy-Preserving Online Content Moderation: A Federated Learning Use Case". Cyber Social Threads (CySoc) workshop co-located with the ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2023. pdf
- Pantelitsa Leonidou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Nikos Salamanos, Michael Sirivianos. "Privacy-Preserving Online Content Moderation with Federated
Learning". Posters and Demos, ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2023. pdf
- Markos Charalambous, Petros Papagiannis, Antonis Papasavva, Pantelitsa Leonidou, Rafael Constaninou, Lia Terzidou, Theodoros Christophides, Pantelis Nicolaou, Orfeas Theofanis, George Kalatzantonakis, Michael Sirivianos. "A Privacy-Preserving Architecture for the Protection of Adolescents in Online Social Networks" The Fifth International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems (CYBER), 2020. pdf, presentation
- Pantelitsa Leonidou, Argyris Constantinides, Marios Belk, Christos Fidas, Andreas Pitsillides. "Eye Gaze and Interaction Differences of Holistic Versus Analytic Users in Image-Recognition Human Interaction Proof Schemes". HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. HCII 2021. Springer, Cham, 2021. pdf
Teaching
Teaching Experience
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Pantelitsa Leonidou
PhD Student/Special Scientist-C Researcher
NetSySci Research Laboratory
Cyprus University of Technology