Stavrou has served as principal investigator on contracts from NSF, DARPA, IARPA, AFOSR, ARO, ONR, and he is an active member of NIST's Mobile Security team and has written more than 40 peer-reviewed conference and journal articles. Over the past few years, Dr. Stavrou's research has focused on two aspects of security: Systems' Security and Reliability. In the context of the first, he is working with NIST as part of the DARPA “Transformative Applications” effort that seeks to secure Android mobile phone devices against kernel-level attacks. Furthermore, Stavrou is the GMU PI participating along with Columbia, Stanford, and Symantec in the IARPA “StoneSoup” effort. Emily Kopp