Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Joined department in 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 current research focuses on:
- designing intrusion-tolerant architectures for distributed services that scale to wide-area networks
- investigating survivable routing in wireless ad hoc networks
- providing access control mechanisms for secure group communication
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).
Selected Publications
Yair Amir, Yongdae Kim,Cristina Nita-Rotaru,John Schultz, Jonathan Stanton, and Gene Tsudik, "Secure
Group Communication Using Robust Contributory Key Agreement", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and
Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 468-480, May 2004, [PDF].
Yair Amir,Yongdae Kim,Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and Gene Tsudik, "On the Performance of Group Key
Agreement Protocols", ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security (TISSEC), vol. 7, no.
3, August 2004, [PDF].
Yair Amir, Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Jonathan Stanton and Gene Tzudik, "Secure Spread: An Integrated
Architecture for Secure Group Communication", In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure
Computing (TDSC), vol. 2, no. 3, 2005..
Funding Administered by Computer Science
Cristina Nita-Rotaru, CAREER: Scalable, Robust and Secure Group-Oriented Services for Wireless
Mesh Networks, National Science Foundation, 2/1/2006-1/31/2011.
Cristina Nita-Rotaru and Sanjay G Rao, CT-ISG: Towards Trustworthy Peer-to-Peer Overlay
Networks, National Science Foundation, 8/1/2007-7/31/2010.
Voicu Popescu, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Gary Bertoline, Melissa Dark, Laura Arns, and Carols Morales,
Effective Distance Learning Through Sustained Interactivity and Video Realism, National
Science Foundation, 9/15/2004-8/31/2008.
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