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Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University

Assistant Director, CERIAS

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Conferences I am involved with:

SP2012: - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

NDSS 2012: - Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium

USENIX Security 2012: - 21st USENIX Security Symposium

IEEE ICDCS 2012: - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

IEEE/IFIP DSN 2012: - International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

ACM WiSec 2012: - ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

IEEE SECON 2012:9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks

IEEE WoWMoM 2012: 13th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks

ACM CoNEXT 2012 :8th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

Cristina Nita-Rotaru is an Associate 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). Her research lies at the intersection of information security, distributed systems, and computer networks. The overarching goal of her work is designing and building practical distributed systems and network protocols that are robust to failures and attacks while coping with the resource constraints existent in computing systems and 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. She is currently an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Computers.

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:

• Endadul Hoque , wireless networks
• Andrew Newell, network coding security
• Rahul Potharaju , wireless security
• Jeffrey Seibert , p2p streaming

Previous members of the DS2 Lab:

• Reza Curtmola, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 2007, Assistant Professor NJIT.

• David Zage, Ph.D., May 2010, joined Sandia National Labs.
• Jing Dong, Ph.D. Dec. 2009, joined Knight Knight Equity Markets.
• Mercan Topkara (co-advised with Prof. M. Atallah), Ph.D. July 2007, joined IBM T.J. Watson in Aug. 2007.
• Bogdan Carbunar (co-advised with Prof. A. Grama and Prof. J. Vitek), Ph.D., 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.
• Camille Gaspard, MSc. May 2009. CISCO
  
  
• Lauren Stuart, BS expected May 2011.
• Emily Raymond, BS, joined NSA Summer 2010.
• Jacob McDorman, BS 2010.
• 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.