Vasileios Kouliaridis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1991. He holds a M.Sc. in Information and Communication Systems Security from the department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of the University of the Aegean. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, under the supervision of the Assistant Professor Georgios Kambourakis.

His research interests are in the fields of Mobile OS Security, Mobile Malware and Machine Learning.