Roxana Geambasu

Roxana Geambașu is a Romanian-American computer scientist[1][2] who is an associate professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. The topics of her research include cloud computing, security and privacy, and operating systems.[3]

Education

Geambașu is originally from Ploiești in Romania,[2] and graduated from Politehnica University of Bucharest in 2005, as valedictorian of Computer Science and Engineering.[4]

As a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Washington, Geambașu came to be supported in her research by Google as one of their first Google PhD Fellows.[5] She completed her Ph.D. in 2011, with three advisors, Steve Gribble, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Hank Levy. Her dissertation was Regaining Control over Cloud and Mobile Data.[6]

Contributions

As a graduate student, Geambașu led the Vanish project for handling "self-destructing data".[7]

In 2014, a team at Columbia led by Geambașu developed a tool called XRay for detecting correlations between ads shown to people and their personal data.[8] With it, they found evidence that an advertising tool used by Gmail until November 2014 targeted ads based on sensitive personal information—something its policies, both those in place in 2014 and those in place now, say it does not do.[9]

Recognition

Popular Science named Geambașu in their "brilliant ten" in 2014 for her work tracking corporate use of personal data.[10][11] She was given a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2016.[12]

References
  1. "Vanish, și dispari!". Adevărul (in Romanian). August 14, 2009.
  2. Vili, Marilena (October 30, 2014). "Români peste Hotare: Povestea Roxanei Geambașu, profesorul care a ajuns în topul cercetătorilor din SUA" (in Romanian). România TV.
  3. "Faculty | Department of Computer Science, Columbia University". www.cs.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  4. "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  5. "Matthew Henderson receives 2013 Google PhD Fellowship". Cambridge Network. July 5, 2013.
  6. Roxana Geambasu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. "Digital Data Make For A Really Permanent Record". All Things Considered. NPR. October 29, 2009.
  8. Lohr, Steve (August 18, 2014). "XRay: A New Tool for Tracking the Use of Personal Data on the Web". The New York Times.
  9. Kumar, Priya (January 27, 2016). "When Was the Last Time You Read a Privacy Policy? Tech companies know that everyone skips the fine print. It's time for them to change approaches". Slate.
  10. Greenwood, Veronique; Willyard, Cassandra (October 13, 2014). "The Brilliant Ten: Roxana Geambasu Exposes How Companies Use Your Data; She's also teaching the cloud to forget personal information". Popular Science.
  11. "Two of 'The Brilliant Ten' Scientists'". The Leonard Lopate Show. WNYC. October 22, 2014.
  12. "UW CSE's Emina Torlak, Mike Cafarella, Roxana Geambasu win Sloan Research Fellowships". University of Washington. Retrieved April 19, 2019.


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