Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Northeastern University

Bio: Cristina Nita-Rotaru is a Professor of Computer Science in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University where she leads the Network and Distributed Systems Security Laboratory (NDS2) and is a founding member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. Prior to joining Northeastern she was a faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University (2003 – 2015). She served as an Associate Dean of Faculty at Northeastern University (2017 – 2020),
Director of the Undergraduate Cybersecurity Program (2024 – 2025), and as an Assistant Director for CERIAS at Purdue University (2011 – 2013). Her research lies at the intersection of cybersecurity, distributed systems, and computer networks. The overarching goal of her work is designing and building resilient distributed systems and network protocols that are resilient to faults, misconfigurations, and attacks. Her work received several best paper awards in NETYS 2023, ACM SACMAT 2022, IEEE SafeThings 2019, NDSS 2018, ISSRE 2017, DSN 2015, three IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize in 2018, 2016 and 2024, and Test-of-Time award in ACM SACMAT 2022. She is a recipient of the NSF Career Award in 2006.

Cristina Nita-Rotaru has served on the program committee of numerous conferences in networking, distributed systems and security such as ISOC NDSS, IEEE S&P, IEEE Euro S&P, IEEE/IFIP DSN, IEEE ICNP, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CCS, ACM Wisec, ACM SOCC, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM Web, ACM Eurosys, ASPLOS, USENIX Security, USENIX OSDI, USENIX ATC. She was an Associate Editor for Elsevier Computer Communications (2008 – 2011), IEEE Transactions on Computers (2011 – 2014), ACM Transactions on Information Systems Security (2009 – 2013), Computer Networks (2012 – 2014), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2011 – 2016), and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Systems (2013 – 2017). She was a member of the steering committee of ISOC NDSS, ACM Wisec, and IEEE/IFIP DSN. She was a general chair for IEEE DSN 2022 and ISOC NDSS 2023, 2024, and a chair of the Steering Group of NDSS 2024. She was a chair of the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Committee (2019, 2020). She is currently a member of the IFIP Working Group on Dependable Computing and Fault-tolerance and the Steering Committee of ACM SACMAT, the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Technical Community on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (TCFT), and the PC co-chair of IEEE S&P 2025 and S&P 2026.

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