Biography
Bogdan Carbunar is an Associate Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University, where he directs the Cyber Security and Privacy Research (CaSPR) Lab. His work spans security, privacy, and trustworthy AI, focusing on adversarial information ecosystems, censorship resistance, whistleblowing systems, and peer-review integrity. He combines applied cryptography, machine learning, and user studies to design transparent and resilient systems that defend against abuse and manipulation online. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University and a B.S. from Politehnica University of Bucharest.
Awards & Honors
- Excellence in Fundamental Research, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, FIU, 2022
- Excellence in Applied Research, School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) 2018 Faculty Awards, FIU, 2018
- Excellence in Research, SCIS Faculty Awards, FIU, 2015
- Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM), for “A Framework for Network Aware Caching for Video on Demand Systems”, 2014
- Best Student Paper Award, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2014), for “Turning the Tide: Curbing Deceptive Yelp Behaviors”, 2014
- Best Paper Award, Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Computing and Online Social Networks (HotPOST), co-located with IEEE ICDCS 2013, for “Yelp Events: Making Bricks Without Clay?”, 2013
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University, 2005
- BS, Computer Science (or equivalent), Politehnica University of Bucharest, 1999