Scholar
Alina Oprea
Google Scholar ID: 16J3izoAAAAJ
Northeastern University
Computer Security
Adversarial Machine Learning
AI Security
Follow
Homepage
↗
Google Scholar
↗
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
9,373
H-index
35
i10-index
84
Publications
20
Co-authors
36
list available
Contact
CV
Open ↗
GitHub
Open ↗
LinkedIn
Open ↗
Publications
36 items
Localize-and-Detect: Auditing Task-Level Poisoning in Instruction-Tuned Models
2026
Cited
0
The Privacy Fallacy of Crowdsourced Fine-Tuning: Extracting Proprietary Data via Topic-Based Poisoning
2026
Cited
0
Beyond Predictable Paths: Redefining AI Security Incident Reporting for Agents
2026
Cited
0
BlueSTAR: Tiered Agentic Architecture for Autonomous Cyber Defense
2026
Cited
0
Targeting World Models to Compromise Robot Learning Pipelines
2026
Cited
0
A Bayesian Approach to Membership Inference for Statistical Release
2026
Cited
0
PoisonForge: Task-Level Targeted Poisoning Benchmark for Instruction-Tuned LLMs
2026
Cited
0
Who Owns This Agent? Tracing AI Agents Back to Their Owners
2026
Cited
0
Load more
Resume
Academic Achievements
Recipient of MIT Technology Review TR35 Award (2011) for cloud security research
Google Security and Privacy Award (2019)
CMU Cylab Distinguished Alumni Award (2024)
Published numerous papers in top venues including NDSS 2026, ACM CCS 2025, GameSec 2025, and arXiv
Developed multiple AI-based security systems: Beehive, MADE, PORTFILER, CELEST, PoolFlip, etc.
Created a comprehensive taxonomy of attacks and mitigations in adversarial ML (with NIST)
Introduced privacy auditing to empirically estimate ML model privacy leakage
Designed an auditing framework for verifying cloud data integrity, freshness, and availability
Co-authors
16 total
Ari Juels
Professor, Computer Science, Cornell Tech (Jacobs); Co-Director, IC3
Matthew Jagielski
Anthropic
Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Professor, Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Michael Reiter
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor, Duke University
Zhou Li
Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
Jonathan Ullman
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Battista Biggio
Professor of Computer Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy
Giorgio Severi
Microsoft