Zurich, Switzerland, March 2009
Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
Contact information
LWSN 2142J, 305 N. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
phone: (765) 496-6757
email: crisn@cs.purdue.edu
Conferences I am involved with:
- IEEE S&P 2010 : - 31st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
- ACM WISEC 2010: - 3rd ACM Wireless Network Security Conference
- IEEE ICDCS 2010:
- International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
- ACM CCS 2009 - 16th ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference
- IEEE ICNP 2009 - 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
- SRDS 2009 - 28th
International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
- ACM STC 2009 - 4th Annual Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing, in conjunction with ACM CCS 2009
- ACM CCSW 2009 - The ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, in conjunction with ACM CCS 2009
Cristina Nita-Rotaru is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at Purdue University where she established the
Dependable and Secure Distributed Systems Laboratory (DS^2) ,
is a member of the Center for Education and Research
in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), and
is associated with the Center for Wireless Systems and Applications (CWSA).
Her research interests lie in
designing distributed systems, network protocols and applications that are
dependable and secure, while maintaining acceptable levels of performance.
Cristina Nita-Rotaru is a recipient of the NSF Career Award in 2006 and a recipient of the Purdue Teaching for Tomorrow Award in 2007. She has served on the Technical Program Committee of numerous conferences in security, networking and distributed systems. Her work is funded by the Center for Education and Research in Information Security and Assurance (CERIAS), by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Cristina Nita-Rotaru holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a MS from Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. She was born and grew up in Bucharest, Romania. She is an alumnus of ``Colegiul National Sfantul Sava''.
Current Graduate Students:
- Jing Dong , security and performance in wireless mesh networks
- Camille Gaspard , email and web security
- Andy Newell, wireless security
- Jeffrey Siebert , p2p streaming
- David Zage, survivable overlay networks
Current Undergraduate Students:
- Ankit Kuwadekar
- Jacob McDorman
Previous members of the DS2 Lab:
- Reza Curtmola, PhD Johns Hopkins University, 2007, Assistant Professor NJIT.
- Mercan Karahan Topkara (co-advised with Prof. Mike Atallah), Ph.D July 2007, joined IBM TJ Watson in Aug. 2007.
- Bogdan Carbunar (co-advised with Prof. A. Grama and Prof. J. Vitek), PhD, May 2005, joined Motorola in June 2005.
- Chi-Bun (Ben) Chan, MSc. Dec. 2004, joined Xilinx Inc.in April 2005.
- Aaron Walters, MS Thesis, May 2006, founding partner of Volatile Systems.
- Ruben Sethi, BS, joined Microsoft Spring 2009
- Kurt Erik Ackermann, BS, joined Amazon Summer 2008
- Dan Spaid, BS, 2007, joined Google 2008
- Jamie Swedler, BS. 2007. joined Amazon 2008
- Chris Kanich, BS. 2005, Graduate School UCSD, Fall 2005
- Ajith Kumar, BS. 2005, joined Microsoft, Feb. 2006.
- Mehmet Demirci, BS. 2006, Graduate School, Georgia Tech. Fall 2006
- Josh Olsen, BS. 2006, Graduate School, University of California, Irvine Fall 2006
- Dan Vacura, BS. 2006.
- Brett Bhavar, BS. 2007, Google, Fall 2007.
- David Inman, BS. 2007.
- Tom Scogland, BS. 2007, Graduate School, Virginia Tech, Fall 2007.