Associate Professor of Computer Science
Joined department: 2003
Education:
BS, Computer Science
Politehnica University of Bucharest (1995)
Politehnica University of Bucharest (1995)
MS, Computer Science
Politehnica University of Bucharest (1996)
Politehnica University of Bucharest (1996)
MSE, Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University (2000)
The Johns Hopkins University (2000)
PhD, Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University (2003)
The Johns Hopkins University (2003)
Cristina Nita-Rotaru joined Purdue in 2003, where she conducts her research within the Dependable and Secure Distributed Systems Laboratory (DS^2).
Cristina Nita-Rotaru's research interests lie in designing distributed systems and network protocols and applications that are dependable and secure, while maintaining acceptable levels of performance.
Her work is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Selected Publications
J. Seibert, HJ. Lee, C. Killian, and C. Nita-Rotaru., "Gatling: Automatic Attack Discovery in
Large-Scale Distributed Systems.", Proceedings of NDSS 2012, Feb. 2012.
J. Seibert, S. Becker, C. Nita-Rotaru, and R. State, "Securing Virtual Coordinates by Enforcing
Physical Laws.", Proceedings of ICDCS 2012, June 2012.
J. Dong, R. Curtmola, and C. Nita-Rotaru., "Practical Defenses Against Pollution Attacks in Wireless
Network Coding.", ACM Transactions on Systems and Information Security, vol. 14 no. 1, May
2011.
Research Funding
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Secure Networking Using Network
Coding, National Science Foundation, 9/1/2009-8/31/2013.
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Verisign Voluntary Support, Verisign, 7/1/2011.
Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Charles Killian, TWC: Small: AutomaticDetection of Protocol Manipulation
Attacks in Large Scale Distributed Systems Implementations, National Science Foundation,
8/15/2012-8/14/2015.
Last Updated: June 27, 2013 11:49am
