Alexander Shevtsov

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3as first author
5since 2021 · last 2025
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 5 · 3 first-author · 5 since 2021Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 4 · 3 first-author · 4 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 2 first-author · 3 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 BotArtist: Generic Approach for Bot Detection in Twitter via Semi-automatic Machine Learning Pipeline
Alexander Shevtsov, Despoina Antonakaki, Ioannis Lamprou 0002, Polyvios Pratikakis, Sotiris Ioannidis
ASONAM (2)1
2024 Exploring Crisis-Driven Social Media Patterns: A Twitter Dataset of Usage During the Russo-Ukrainian War
Ioannis Lamprou 0002, Alexander Shevtsov, Despoina Antonakaki, Polyvios Pratikakis, Sotiris Ioannidis
ASONAM (1)2
2024 Fingerprinting the Shadows: Unmasking Malicious Servers with Machine Learning-Powered TLS Analysis
abstract
Over the last few years, the adoption of encryption in network traffic has been constantly increasing. The percentage of encrypted communications worldwide is estimated to exceed 90%. Although network encryption protocols mainly aim to secure and protect users' online activities and communications, they have been exploited by malicious entities that hide their presence in the network. It was estimated that in 2022, more than 85% of the malware used encrypted communication channels.
Andreas Theofanous, Eva Papadogiannaki, Alexander Shevtsov, Sotiris Ioannidis
WWW3
2023 Russo-Ukrainian War: Prediction and explanation of Twitter suspension
abstract
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting what is now known as the Russo-Ukrainian War, initiating an online discourse on SNs. Twitter one of the most popular SNs, with an open and democratic character, enables a transparent discussion among its large user base. Unfortunately, this often leads to Twitter's policy violations, propaganda, abusive actions, civil integrity violations, and consequently to user accounts' suspension and deletion. This study focuses on the Twitter suspension mechanism and the analysis of shared content and features leading to an accurate machine-learning suspension prediction. Toward this goal, we have obtained a dataset containing 107.7M tweets, originating from 9.8 million users, using Twitter API. We extract the categories of shared content of the suspended accounts and explain their characteristics, through the extraction of text embeddings in junction with cosine similarity clustering. Our results reveal scam campaigns taking advantage of trending topics regarding the Russia-Ukrainian conflict for Bitcoin and Ethereum fraud, spam, and advertisement campaigns. Additionally, we apply a ML methodology including a SHapley Additive explainability model to understand and explain how user accounts get suspended.
Alexander Shevtsov, Despoina Antonakaki, Ioannis Lamprou 0002, Ioannis Kontogiorgakis, Polyvios Pratikakis, Sotiris Ioannidis
ASONAM1
2022 Identification of Twitter Bots Based on an Explainable Machine Learning Framework: The US 2020 Elections Case Study
Alexander Shevtsov, Christos Tzagkarakis, Despoina Antonakaki, Sotiris Ioannidis
ICWSM1