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.

Teaching

[Fall 2023] CS 7775 Seminar in Computer Security: Machine Learning Security and Privacy

[Spring 2022] DS 4400 Machine Learning and Data Mining I

[Fall 2021] CY 7790 "Special Topics in Security and Privacy: Machine Learning Security and Privacy"

[Spring 2021] DS 4400 Machine Learning and Data Mining I

[Fall 2020] DS 4400 Machine Learning and Data Mining I

[Spring 2020] CY 2550 Foundations of Cybersecurity

[Fall 2019] DS 5220 Supervised Machine Learning and Learning Theory

[Spring 2019] DS 4400 Machine Learning and Data Mining I

[Fall 2018] DS 4400 Machine Learning and Data Mining I

[Spring 2018] CS 4770 Cryptography/CS-6750 Cryptography and Communication Security

[Spring 2017] CS 4770 Cryptography/CS-6750 Cryptography and Communication Security

[Fall 2016] CS 7775 Seminar in Computer Security
    "Security Analytics: Applications of machine learning in cybersecurity"