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 and workshops I am involved with:
- CCS 2008: CCS 2008 - the 15th ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference
- DSN 2008: IEEE/IFIP DSN 2008 - IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
- ICDCS 2008: ICDCS 2008 - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
- ICNP 2008: ICNP 2008 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
- INFOCOM 2008: IEEE INFOCOM 2008 - The Conference on Computer Communications
- SECURECOM 2008: SECURECOM 2008 - 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks
- WISP'08: WISP 2008 - The First International Workshop on Wireless Security and Privacy, in conjuction with the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'08)
- STC'08: ACM STC'08 - The Third ACM Workshop on Scalable Trusted Computing, ireless Security and Privacy, in conjuction with the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security(ACM CCS'08)
- NPSec'08: NPSec 2008 - The 4th Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), in conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2008)
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.
Current research focuses on :
designing intrusion-tolerant architectures for distributed services that scale
to wide-area networks, studying attacks and defenses in overlay networks,
investigating survivable routing in wireless ad hoc networks, and
designing group services for wireless mesh networks.
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 Post Doctoral Research Associates
- Reza Curtmola, PhD Johns Hopkins University, 2007.
Current Graduate Students:
- Jing Dong , security and performance in wireless mesh networks
- Camille Gaspard , email and web security
- Jeffrey Siebert , p2p streaming
- David Zage, survivable overlay networks
Current Undergraduate Students:
- Kurt Erik Ackermann
Previous members of the DS2 Lab:
- 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.
- 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.