Manos Antonakakis

Professor

Manos Antonakakis is a professor with an adjunct appointment in the College of Computing (CoC). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech in 2012.

Antonakakis is responsible for the Astrolavos Lab, where students conduct research in the areas of Attack Attribution, Network Security and Privacy, Intrusion Detection, and Data Mining.

Antonakakis has raised several tens of millions in research funding as primary investigator from government agencies and the private sector. He is the author of several U.S. patents and more than 20 academic publications in top academic conferences. He has served as a program committee member for all top tier security conferences.

Before joining the Georgia Tech ECE faculty ranks, Antonakakis held the chief scientist role at Damballa. He currently serves as the co-chair of the academic committee for the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG).

Theeradetch Detchprohm

Principal Research Engineer

Theeradetch Detchprohm received his Ph.D. in electrical and electronics engineering from Nagoya University, Japan in 1996 and has been researching III-N semiconductors since 1991. In his early career, he pioneered work on developing free-standing Gallium nitride (GaN) substrates by hydride vapor phase epitaxy technique. For the past 3 decades, he has been working on the metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) based III-N semiconductor epitaxy and device technologies.

He has been working at the Compound Semiconductor Research Center under ECE professor emeritus Russell D. Dupuis since 2013. His research interests are focused on III-N and III-AsPSb based epitaxy, and fabrication technologies for optoelectronic and power device applications. He serves as a co-PI or task leader for projects supported by federal sponsors. He and his colleagues have contributed more than 140 papers in peer-review journals with h-index of 42 as well as more than 350 conference presentations, including 51 invited talks.

He is an active committee member of Electronic Materials Conference (EMC) and has helped organize III-N semiconductor sessions for EMC since 2009. Additionally, he has served and continues to serve as a committee member for III-N conferences such as the International Workshop on Nitride semiconductors (IWN). He is an active reviewer for many technical journals such as Nature-Scientific Reports and Applied Physics Letters.
 

Anil Babu Poda

Senior Research Engineer

Anil Poda has been working as a research engineer since October 2013 at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center (NEETRAC) within ECE. He currently holds the position of NEETRAC’s High Voltage Laboratory lead engineer. His research and testing expertise involves different components of electrical grid systems such as cable systems, insulator designs, switchgear, Ffuse cutouts, and more.

He has experience in performing forensic evaluation of cable system components, and performing work on the grounding and protection schemes. He has been actively participating and serving as a working group member in the IEEE Power and Energy Society substation committee working groups and ASTM F18 Committee Working Groups on behalf of NEETRAC. In this role he provides huge contributions in revising the standards based on the current needs of the electrical utility industry.