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Danai Chasaki received a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2006. She also received a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009 and 2012 respectively. In 2012, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University as an Assistant Professor. Before that, she was an Adjunct Instructor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Research Assistant at the Network Systems Lab of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Danai’s current research interests include embedded system design, network security and cyber-physical systems. She is a member of the IEEE, the ACM and the ASEE. She is active as program committee member of some professional conferences including IEEE ICNP and ACM/IEEE ANCS.