Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Research interests

• Distributed systems and network security
• Insider-resilient systems
• Analytics for security and fault tolerance
• Automated testing and verification

Education

• PhD, Johns Hopkins University
• MS, Politechnica University of Bucharest — Romania
• BS, Politechnica University of Bucharest —Romania

Biography

Cristina Nita-Rotaru is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. She is a founding member of Northeastern's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.

Nita-Rotaru's research lies at the intersection of security, distributed systems, and computer networks. Her overarching goal is to design and build secure and resilient distributed systems and network protocols.

Before joining Northeastern, Nita-Rotaru was a faculty member at Purdue University. While there, she received a host of university awards, including the College of Science Research Award, the Excellence in Research Award, the College of Science Leadership Award, the College of Science Undergraduate Advising Award, and the Teaching for Tomorrow Award. She also earned an NSF CAREER Award in 2006.

Nita-Rotaru has served on the technical program committee of numerous conferences in security, networking, and distributed systems, including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, ACM Wisec, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE/IFIP DSN, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, and WWW. She was an assistant director for CERIAS and is currently a member of the ACM Wisec and IEEE/IFIP DSN steering committees, as well as a member of the IFIP Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault-tolerance.

Nita-Rotaru was also a multi-year associate editor for Elsevier Computer Communications, IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security, Computer Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Systems.

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