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Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Cristina Nita-Rotaru

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Computer Science

D-Index
44
Citations
8738
World Ranking
7536
National Ranking
3277

Overview

Cristina Nita-Rotaru is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Computer Science with a substantial contribution across 67 publications. Within this domain, their work covers subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Automotive Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Cryptography and Data Security
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies
  • Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Cristina Nita-Rotaru include:

  • Automated Attack Synthesis by Extracting Finite State Machines from Protocol Specification Documents, 2022, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • VisConnect: Distributed Event Synchronization for Collaborative Visualization, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • ShorTor: Improving Tor Network Latency via Multi-hop Overlay Routing, 2022, 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • Secure Communication Channel Establishment: TLS 1.3 (over TCP Fast Open) versus QUIC, 2021, Journal of Cryptology
  • Backdoor Attacks in Peer-to-Peer Federated Learning, 2024, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Max von Hippel
  • Ben Weintraub
  • Kenneth L. McMillan
  • Lenore D. Zuck
  • Georgios Syros

Their publications are often presented in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security

Cristina Nita-Rotaru has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by the Association for Computing Machinery titled ACM TechBrief: Automated Vehicles in 2024.

Best Publications

  • A survey of attack and defense techniques for reputation systems

    Kevin Hoffman;David Zage;Cristina Nita-Rotaru

  • Manipulating Machine Learning: Poisoning Attacks and Countermeasures for Regression Learning

    Matthew Jagielski;Alina Oprea;Battista Biggio;Chang Liu

  • An on-demand secure routing protocol resilient to byzantine failures

    Baruch Awerbuch;David Holmer;Cristina Nita-Rotaru;Herbert Rubens

  • Using probabilistic generative models for ranking risks of Android apps

    Hao Peng;Chris Gates;Bhaskar Sarma;Ninghui Li

  • Android permissions: a perspective combining risks and benefits

    Bhaskar Pratim Sarma;Ninghui Li;Chris Gates;Rahul Potharaju

  • On the performance of group key agreement protocols

    Yair Amir;Yongdae Kim;Cristina Nita-Rotaru;Gene Tsudik

  • ODSBR: An on-demand secure Byzantine resilient routing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks

    Baruch Awerbuch;Reza Curtmola;David Holmer;Cristina Nita-Rotaru

  • Why Do Adversarial Attacks Transfer? Explaining Transferability of Evasion and Poisoning Attacks

    Ambra Demontis;Marco Melis;Maura Pintor;Matthew Jagielski

  • Secure group communication using robust contributory key agreement

    Y. Amir;Y. Kim;C. Nita-Rotaru;J.L. Schultz

  • Taking a long look at QUIC: an approach for rigorous evaluation of rapidly evolving transport protocols

    Arash Molavi Kakhki;Samuel Jero;David Choffnes;Cristina Nita-Rotaru

  • Practical defenses against pollution attacks in intra-flow network coding for wireless mesh networks

    Jing Dong;Reza Curtmola;Cristina Nita-Rotaru

  • How secure and quick is QUIC?: provable security and performance analyses

    Robert Lychev;Samuel Jero;Alexandra Boldyreva;Cristina Nita-Rotaru

  • Plagiarizing smartphone applications: attack strategies and defense techniques

    Rahul Potharaju;Andrew Newell;Cristina Nita-Rotaru;Xiangyu Zhang

  • Mitigating Byzantine Attacks in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

    Baruch Awerbuch;Reza Curtmola;David Holmer;Cristina Nita-Rotaru

  • Steward: Scaling Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Replication to Wide Area Networks

    Y. Amir;C. Danilov;D. Dolev;J. Kirsch

  • Secure network coding for wireless mesh networks: Threats, challenges, and directions

    Jing Dong;Reza Curtmola;Cristina Nita-Rotaru

  • A flash(bot) in the pan: measuring maximal extractable value in private pools

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  • Secure spread: an integrated architecture for secure group communication

    Y. Amir;C. Nita-Rotaru;S. Stanton;G. Tsudik

  • Secure group communication in asynchronous networks with failures: integration and experiments

    Y. Amir;G. Ateniese;D. Hasse;Yongdae Kim

  • On the Survivability of Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

    B. Awerbuch;R. Curtmola;D. Holmer;H. Rubens

  • Scaling Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Replication toWide Area Networks

    Y. Amir;C. Danilov;D. Dolev;J. Kirsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Yair Amir
Yair Amir Johns Hopkins University
Alina Oprea
Alina Oprea Northeastern University
Gene Tsudik
Gene Tsudik University of California, Irvine
Ninghui Li
Ninghui Li Purdue University West Lafayette
Radu State
Radu State University of Luxembourg
Baruch Awerbuch
Baruch Awerbuch Johns Hopkins University
Sanjay Rao
Sanjay Rao Purdue University West Lafayette
David Choffnes
David Choffnes Northeastern University
Yongdae Kim
Yongdae Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Battista Biggio
Battista Biggio University of Cagliari

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