Paper on secure inference for graph neural networks at ACM CCS 2025; Talks at NII, Japan, and University of Bologna, Italy, in 2025 on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Systems, Ad-supported Online Publishing Challenges, and Federated Learning for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices; Former student Xiaopeng Jiang won the Joseph Leung Award for Best CS Ph.D. Thesis in 2025 (ranked 2nd across all NJIT); General Chair of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2026).
Research Experience
Extensive research experience in areas such as distributed machine learning, mobile computing and sensing, online privacy, and computational advertising.
Education
Ph.D. from Rutgers University; M.S./B.S. from University Politehnica, Bucharest, Romania.
Background
Professor in the Computer Science Department at NJIT; Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan. Research interests include distributed machine learning, mobile computing and sensing, online privacy, and computational advertising.
Miscellany
Looking for high-quality candidates annually for the NSF CyberCorps Scholarship For Service project: NJIT Secure Computing Initiative; Typically teaches CS 643: Cloud Computing each semester.