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.

Service

I currently serve as associate editor for the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine and I serve on the steering committee of the IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium.

Current conferences

Program committee: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024

Program committee: IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML) 2024

Past conferences, journals, and workshops

• Associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) Journal, 2014 - 2023
• IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML) 2023
• Program committee co-chair: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021
• Program committee co-chair: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2020
• Program committee co-chair: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2019
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019
• RAID 2018
• USENIX Security Symposium 2018
• Program committee co-chair: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2018
• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2017
• USENIX Security Symposium 2017
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2017
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2016
• IEEE BIGDATA Workshop on Big Data for Cloud Operations Management (BDCOM), 2016
• ICDM Workshop on Data Mining for Cyber Security (DMCS), 2016
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2013,2015,2016,2017
• IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2016
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2014,2015
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2015
• ACM SIGMETRICS 2014
• ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW) 2010 - 2013, 2014 (co-chair)
• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2012,2013
• Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) 2013
• International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2009,2010,2013
• USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage) 2011
• Applied Cryptography and Network Security Conference (ACNS) 2008,2010
• European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2009
• USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) 2009
• International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS) 2008