About CPI

Executive director

Cristina Nita-Rotaru is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. She is the executive director and a founding member of Northeastern’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. Nita-Rotaru’s research lies at the intersection of security, distributed systems, and computer networks. Her overarching goal is to design and build secure and resilient distributed systems and network protocols.