Spyros Simos Magliveras (born 6 September 1938 in Athens)[1] is a Greek-born American mathematician and computer scientist.
He was from 1963 to 1964 an instructor of mathematics at Florida Presbyterian College and from 1964 to 1968 a teaching fellow in mathematics at the University of Michigan, as well as from 1965 to 1968 a programming analyst and a systems analyst at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.
[2] He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1970 with thesis advisor Donald Livingstone and thesis The subgroup structure of the Higman-Sims simple group.
[2] Magliveras does research on combinatorial designs, permutation groups, finite geometries, encryption of data (cryptography), and data security.
[5] He is a co-author of the 2007 book Secure group communications over data networks.