Nick Nikiforakis
Co-Founder And CEO at Stony Brook University
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNick Nikiforakis is a cybersecurity researcher-turned-founder with 14 years of experience bridging academic rigor and practical defenses; he is Associate Professor at Stony Brook, leads the PragSec Lab, and in 2025 co-founded LinkSentry as CEO. His research on web security, privacy, DNS hardening, attack-surface reduction and deception has produced 70+ peer-reviewed papers cited over 4,000 times and earned NSF CAREER and ONR Young Investigator awards. Known for analyzing large online ecosystems—from file-hosting to remote JavaScript inclusions—he combines empirical measurement with deployable countermeasures against real-world web threats. Based in Brookhaven, NY, he brings both deep low-level protocol insight and a track record of translating academic findings into startup-grade security products.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Web security & privacy low-level security, PhD Web security & privacy low-level security at KU LeuvenMSc Distributed Systems, MSc Distributed Systems at University of Crete
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Github Skills (12)
buffer10
science10
computer-science10
react10
ranking10
testbed9
buffer-overflow7
ada7
cardano6
plutus6
docker4
cybersecurity3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
johnwilander/RIPE
Oct 2011 - Feb 2016
Buffer overflow testbed, research paper published at ACSAC 2011
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 4 years 4 months
buffer-overflowbuffertestbedpublishedresearch-paper
nikifor/fingerprinting-training
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 months
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