Tamara Bonaci
Associate Teaching Professor
Research interests
- Security and privacy of biomedical technologies
- Security and privacy issues of neural engineering systems
- Quantifying private information from electrophysiological signals
Education
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
- MS in Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
Biography
Tamara Bonaci is an associate teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University’s Seattle campus. She teaches security and privacy courses at Northeastern University’s Seattle campus and the University of Washington. Bonaci's research focuses on the security and privacy of emerging and forthcoming biomedical technologies.
Bonaci received her graduate degree and doctorate from the University of Washington, where she specialized in the security and privacy of emerging biomedical technologies. Since earning her doctorate, she has been a part of a pre-public local Seattle startup that focuses on biometric methods. Bonaci is passionate about diversity in engineering and hopes to lead and retain more women in the STEM field.
Recent publications
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Advancing Digital Privacy Education: A Global Curriculum Initiative
Citation: Gurvirender P. S. Tejay, Tamara Bonaci, Travis Breaux, Umit Cali, Ernesto Cuadross-Vargas, Sara Foresti, Andrew D. McGettrick, Rajendra K. Raj, Kai Rannenberg, Andrew Seely. (2025). Advancing Digital Privacy Education: A Global Curriculum Initiative World Conference on Information Security Education, 237-240. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-94924-1_16 -
Continuous Operator Authentication for Teleoperated Systems Using Hidden Markov Models
Citation: Junjie Yan, Kevin Huang , Kyle Lindgren, Tamara Bonaci, Howard Jay Chizeck. (2022). Continuous Operator Authentication for Teleoperated Systems Using Hidden Markov Models ACM Trans. Cyber Phys. Syst., 6, 6:1-6:25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3488901 -
Your signature is your password: Haptic Passwords on Mobile Devices
Citation: Junjie Yan, Tamara Bonaci, Howard Jay Chizeck. (2020). Your signature is your password: Haptic Passwords on Mobile Devices CoRR, abs/2010.14007. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14007