Ph.D. in Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 2004
M.S. in Computer Science, "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj, Romania, 1999
B.S. in Computer Science, "Babes-Bolyai"
University, Cluj, Romania, 1998
August 2004 – present: Department of Computer Science, Northern Kentucky University, Kentucky (Assistant Professor)
August 1999 – August 2004: Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Michigan (Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, and Research Assistant)
October 1997 – August 1999: Department of Computer Science, "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant)
Principal Investigator, NKU CINSAM Grant titled “Achieving Privacy while Preserving Data Utility”, January 2009 – December 2009.
Principal Investigator, NKU Faculty Summer Fellowship titled “Extended p-Sensitive k-Anonymity for Privacy Protection”, May 2007 – August 2007.
Principal Investigator, NSF EPSCoR Research Enhancement Grant (REG) titled “P-Sensitive
K-Anonymity Property for Microdata”, June 2006 – May 2007.
Yahoo research! Best Paper Award for Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD 2008 (PinKDD) for the paper “A Clustering Approach for Data and Structural Anonymity in Social Networks”, Las Vegas, NE, 2008 (with Dr. Alina Campan)
Faculty Summer Fellowship, Northern Kentucky University, 2007
Certificate of Achievement awarded as a coach of the NKU Norse team for the ACM Mid-Central USA Programming Contest, Lexington, KY, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007
Michael E. Conrad Outstanding Graduate Research Publication Award, Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, 2004
Certificate of Recognition as a Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, 2002
Nominated for Herberlein Teaching Award, Wayne State University, 2001
Certificate of Recognition as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, 2000
“The Best Romanian Software” for Rocase, a CASE tool developed at Computer Science Research Laboratory lead by Dr. Dan Chiorean (team prize), CERF International Fare, Bucharest, 1998
Special Prize, The National Computer Science Contest for Students, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 1995
2nd place,
The National Mathematics
Contest "Grigore Moisil",
Romania, 1994
“The 2nd International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD2008),” Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2008
“The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2008),” Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2008
“A Three-day Grant Proposal Writing Workshop,” Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation, Highland Heights, Kentucky, May 2008
“IT Workforce: Trends and Implications Seminar,” Infrastructure Management Institute, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, May 2008
“International Workshop on Practical Preserving Data Mining (P3DM2008),” Atlanta, Georgia, April 2008
“International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS2008),” Nantes, France, March 2008
“IMI Security Symposium,” Infrastructure Management Institute, NKU METS Center, Highland Heights, Kentucky, October 2007
“Building Team Science,” 13th Annual Kentucky EPSCoR Statewide Conference, Lexington Convention Center, Lexington, Kentucky, October 2007
“The 4th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM2007),” Vienna, Austria, September 2007
“The 2007 ACM Symposium of Applied Computing (SAC2007),” Seoul, South Korea, March 2007
Workshop on “Summer Fellowship, Project Grant and Sabbatical Applicants,” Professional & Organizational Development Center, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, August 2006
“The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN2006),” In Conjunction with WORLDCOMP’06, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2006
“International Workshop of Privacy Data Management (PDM2006),” In Conjunction with 22th International Conference of Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006
“International Conference on Mathematics and Informatics (ICTAMI2005),” Albac, Romania, September 2005
Workshop on “Scholarship on Engagement Series: Engaged Teaching,” Professional & Organizational Development Center, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, August 2005
Workshop on “Privacy and Electronic Society,” In Conjunction with 11th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Washington DC, October 2004
Symposium on “Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Age (CPILIT2004),” Chicago, October 2004
Workshop on “First and Second Year Faculty Proposal Preparation,” Office of Research, Grants and Contracts, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, October 2004
RP&T Workshop “Road Signs to Tenure,” Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, September 2004
Research grant writing seminar: “Getting Started as a Successful Grant Writer and Academician,” Wayne State University, Detroit, January 2004
Workshop on “Privacy and Electronic Society,” In Conjunction with 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Washington DC, October 2003
Workshop on “Digital Libraries for Cultural Preservation,” Wayne State University, Detroit, October 2003
“International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM2003),” Cambridge, Ma, June 2003
Workshop on “HIPAA Privacy Standards, Statistical Risk Disclosure, And De-identification Methods,” Center for Healthcare Effectiveness Research, Wayne State University presented by Dr. Daniel Barth-Jones, Detroit, October 2001
Association for Computing Machinery