Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Full Professor, Khoury College, Northeastern University

Joined

July 2019

Names

Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Preferred)

Emails

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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

Khoury College, Northeastern University (northeastern.edu)

2015 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

security

1998 – 2023

Publications

SureFED: Robust Federated Learning via Uncertainty-Aware Inward and Outward Inspection
Nasimeh Heydaribeni, Ruisi Zhang, Tara Javidi, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Farinaz Koushanfar
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
Fingerprinting Implementations of Cryptographic Primitives and Protocols that Use Post-Quantum Algorithms
Tushin Mallick, Ramana Kompella, Ashish Kundu, Cristina Nita-Rotaru
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Backdoor Attacks in Peer-to-Peer Federated Learning
Georgios Syros, Gökberk Yar, Simona Boboila, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Alina Oprea
- ACM Trans. Priv. Secur. 2025
- Readers: Everyone
DROP: Poison Dilution via Knowledge Distillation for Federated Learning
Georgios Syros, Anshuman Suri, Farinaz Koushanfar, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Alina Oprea
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Phantom: General Trigger Attacks on Retrieval Augmented Language Generation
Harsh Chaudhari, Giorgio Severi, John Abascal, Matthew Jagielski, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Milad Nasr, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Alina Oprea
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Rolling in the Shadows: Analyzing the Extraction of MEV Across Layer-2 Rollups
Christof Ferreira Torres, Albin Mamuti, Ben Weintraub, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Shweta Shinde
- CCS 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Formal Model-Driven Analysis of Resilience of GossipSub to Attacks from Misbehaving Peers
Ankit Kumar, Max von Hippel, Panagiotis Manolios, Cristina Nita-Rotaru
- SP 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Exploiting Temporal Vulnerabilities for Unauthorized Access in Intent-based Networking
Ben Weintraub, Jiwon Kim, Ran Tao, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Hamed Okhravi, Dave Jing Tian, Benjamin E. Ujcich
- CCS 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Payout Races and Congested Channels: A Formal Analysis of Security in the Lightning Network
Ben Weintraub, Satwik Prabhu Kumble, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Stefanie Roos
- CCS 2024
- Readers: Everyone
A Formal Analysis of SCTP: Attack Synthesis and Patch Verification
Jacob Ginesin, Max von Hippel, Evan Defloor, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Michael Tüxen
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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