Reza Curtmola

Assistant Professor
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Department of Computer Science
GITC 4301, 218 Central Ave
Newark, NJ 07102

Office: GITC 4301
Phone: (973) 596-5776
E-mail:
Please consider attending the Fall 2011 Security and Privacy Day workshop organized at NJIT on December 2, 2011.
Reza Curtmola is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at NJIT.

Previously, he was a post doctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, where he worked in the DS^2 lab headed by Prof. Cristina Nita-Rotaru and affiliated with CERIAS. Reza Curtmola holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University, where his advisor was Prof. Giuseppe Ateniese.

NEW! The Department of Computer Science at NJIT offers a new program for Fall 2011, MS in Cyber Security and Privacy.

Research Interests

- Applied Cryptography
- Network Security (primarily for wireless networks)
- Privacy in Computing

Some topics I have worked on, reflecting my research interests: security of storage systems, security of cloud computing and cloud storage, security of wireless networks, searchable encryption, security of DNS.
Other areas of interest in cryptography: broadcast encryption, privacy preserving data-mining.
Other areas I'm (more remotely) interested in: security of web services.

If you're a student interested in the type of research I do, please drop me an email or stop by my office.

Publications

List of publications and presentations.

Professional Activities

Conferences I'm involved with:
- The 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2010)
- The 3rd ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec 2010)
- The 14th International Cconference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2010)
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010)
- IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC 2010)
- The 2nd International Workshop on Dependable Network Computing and Mobile Systems (DNCMS 2009) (in conjunction with SRDS 2009)
- The 5th IEEE Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2009) (in conjuction with ICNP 2009)
- The 5th International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2009)
- The 4th IEEE Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2008) (in conjuction with ICNP 2008)

Teaching

CS 696 - Network Management & Security (Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008)
CS 698 - ST: Network Protocols Security (Spring 2012)
CS 698 - ST: Security and Privacy in Computer Systems (Fall 2011)
CS 708 - Advanced Data Security and Privacy (Fall 2010)
CS 698 - Special Topics in Data Security (Spring 2009)
CS 408 - Cryptography & Internet Security (Spring 2011)

Wireless Networking, Security, and Sensing (WNSS) seminar

Miscellaneous

Here's a link to the CERIAS security seminar and the SPAR security seminar.