Maria Apostolaki joined Princeton University as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in August 2022. She is associated with the Computer Science Department, CITP, DeCenter, and AI Lab. She is also a fellow at Forbes college. Her research draws from networking, security, formal methods, and machine learning. Overall, her goal is to design and build networked systems that are secure, reliable, and performant.

Maria’s awards and honors include the Sloan Research Fellowship (2026), the NSF CAREER Award (2025), the Google Research Scholar Award (2023), multiple Commendations for Outstanding Teaching (2023, 2024, 2025), recognition as a Rising Star in Computer Networking and Communications (2021), and multiple IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prizes (2018, 2025).

Maria completed her PhD in 2021 at ETH Zurich under the guidance of Laurent Vanbever. During her studies, she was a visiting student at MIT and a research intern at Microsoft Research and Google. After her PhD, she spent a year at Carnegie Mellon University working with Vyas Sekar as a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to her PhD, she earned her diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

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