I am an Associate Professor at Northeastern University in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. I have a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Bucharest, Romania, and MS and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. I joined Northeastern University in Fall 2016. Before that, I was a Research Scientist at RSA Laboratories for 9 years. I am the recipient of the Technology Review TR35 award for research in cloud security in 2011 and the Google Security and Privacy Award in 2019. I was on sabbatical at Google Research during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Students
I am fortunate to advise and work with the following students:

PhD students
Ethan Rathbun, Fall 2023 - present, co-advised with Chris Amato
Evan Rose, Fall 2023 - present
Georgios Syros, Fall 2023 - present, co-advised with Cristina Nita-Rotaru
John Abascal, Fall 2021 - present, co-advised with Jonathan Ullman
Harsh Chaudhari, Fall 2021 - present
Lisa Oakley, Fall 2020 - present
Giorgio Severi, Fall 2018 - Present
Alesia Chernikova, Fall 2017 - present

Alumni
Talha Ongun, PhD in Computer Science, Graduated 2023, First position: Crowdstrike
Matthew Jagielski, PhD in Computer Science, Graduated 2021, co-advised with Cristina Nita-Rotaru, First position: Google Research

Gokberk Yar, MS in Computer Science, Graduated May 2023
Alexander Gomez, MS in Computer Science, Graduated May 2020
Indranil Jana, MS in Computer Science, Graduated May 2019
Muazzam Asani, MS in Computer Science, Graduated May 2019

Pramodh Gopalan, IIT Kanpur, Graduated 2023
Andrew Yuan, BS in Computer Science, Graduated 2023
Stanley Wu, BS in Computer Science, Graduated 2022
Hava Kantrowitz, BS in Cybersecurity, Graduated 2022
Niklas Pousette-Harger, BS in Computer Science, Graduated 2021
Yuxuan Wang, BS in Computer Science, Graduated 2020
Oliver Spohngellert, BS in Computer Science, Graduated in 2019
Diego Delgado, BS in ECE, Graduated 2019
Gen Ohta, BS in ECE, Graduated May 2017

Afsah Anwar, Postdoc 2021 - 2022