Michael Sirivianos is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He is the Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology at the Cyprus University of Technology, and he serves on the Board of the CYENS Centre of Excellence.  He is also the scientific coordinator of the Fact-check Cyprus Centre against Disinformation.  He researches ways to help social media users tell truth from lies.

He received his PhD from Duke University in 2010. His research interests include trust-aware design of distributed systems, device-centric authentication, federated identity management, discrimination based on personal data, cybersafety (disinformation and protection of minors), transactional workload scalability, and measurement of blockchain systems.

He has published articles in some of the most influential conferences and journals of Networked Systems and Social Computing, including ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX NSDI, ACM IMC, USENIX ATC, AAAI ICWSM, ACM CSCW, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and ACM Transactions on the Web. He has extensive experience leading EU-funded projects and has secured over €3.5M in research funding for the Cyprus University of Technology.

His team's work on fringe web communities, hate speech, disinformation and disturbing content on YouTube has received extensive coverage in major news outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New Scientist, Business Insider, Quartz, Wired, El País, and PolitiFact.