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Chicago, Oct. 2009

Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University

On sabbatical Fall 2009

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Call for participation: CCS 2009

Conferences I am involved with:

ACM SIGCOMM 2010 : - Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communications, a special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery.

IEEE S&P 2010 : - 31st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

IEEE/IFIP DSN 2010 : - 40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

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

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 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), 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.

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
• Andrew Newell, network coding security
• Jeffrey Siebert , p2p streaming
• David Zage, survivable overlay networks

Current Undergraduate Students:

• Ankit Kuwadekar
• Jacob McDorman
• Emily Raymond
• Lauren Stuart
• Prateek Tandon

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.
• Camille Gaspard, MSc. May 2009. CISCO
  
  
• 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.