Alina Oprea
Scholar

Alina Oprea

Google Scholar ID: 16J3izoAAAAJ
Northeastern University
Computer SecurityAdversarial Machine LearningAI Security
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
9,373
 
H-index
35
 
i10-index
84
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
36
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Resume (English only)
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