Alina Oprea
Alina Oprea
Alina Oprea
Alina Oprea
Research Interests
- Security analytics
- Cloud security
- Network security
- Applied cryptography
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- MS in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest – Romania
Biography
Alina Oprea is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Prior to her position at Northeastern, Oprea was a consultant research scientist at RSA Laboratories, where she performed research in cloud security, applied cryptography, foundations of cybersecurity, and security analytics. Oprea received a BS in mathematics and computer science from the University of Bucharest in Romania. She also earned MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003 and 2007, respectively.
Oprea is interested in extracting meaningful intelligence from different data sources for various security applications. By researching how she can design rigorous machine learning techniques to predict sophisticated attackers’ behavior, she hopes to identify techniques to protect cloud infrastructures against emerging threats. Oprea co-directs the Network and Distributed Systems Security Lab, which focuses on building distributed systems and network protocols that achieve security, availability, and performance.
As the co-author of numerous journal and peer-review conference papers, Oprea has participated in a large number of technical program committees (IEEE S&P, NDSS, ACM CCS, ACSAC, DSN) and is a co-inventor of 20 issued patents. She currently sits as an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) journal. At the 2005 Network and Distributed System Security Conference, Oprea was the recipient of the Best Paper Award, and in 2011, she received the Technology Review TR35 award for her research in cloud security.
Research Interests
- Security analytics
- Cloud security
- Network security
- Applied cryptography
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- MS in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- BS in Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest – Romania
Biography
Alina Oprea is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Prior to her position at Northeastern, Oprea was a consultant research scientist at RSA Laboratories, where she performed research in cloud security, applied cryptography, foundations of cybersecurity, and security analytics. Oprea received a BS in mathematics and computer science from the University of Bucharest in Romania. She also earned MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003 and 2007, respectively.
Oprea is interested in extracting meaningful intelligence from different data sources for various security applications. By researching how she can design rigorous machine learning techniques to predict sophisticated attackers’ behavior, she hopes to identify techniques to protect cloud infrastructures against emerging threats. Oprea co-directs the Network and Distributed Systems Security Lab, which focuses on building distributed systems and network protocols that achieve security, availability, and performance.
As the co-author of numerous journal and peer-review conference papers, Oprea has participated in a large number of technical program committees (IEEE S&P, NDSS, ACM CCS, ACSAC, DSN) and is a co-inventor of 20 issued patents. She currently sits as an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) journal. At the 2005 Network and Distributed System Security Conference, Oprea was the recipient of the Best Paper Award, and in 2011, she received the Technology Review TR35 award for her research in cloud security.
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