His research interests are in cryptography and computer security. At UConn he leads the Crypto-DRM laboratory which is dedicated to the study of cryptographic aspects of digital rights management and related technologies. He is also a founding member of the UConn Voting Technology Research (VoTeR) center that performs security evaluations of electronic voting equipment for the state of Connecticut. Aggelos is a graduate of the Mathematics department of the University of Athens, Greece and has a Ph.D. from the City University of New York. He has received an NSF Career award and was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship during his doctoral studies. He has published many articles in cryptographic and security subjects including traitor tracing schemes, digital signatures, encryption mechanisms, privacy primitives, electronic voting and others.