Cristian Borcea
Professor, Computer Science
5713 Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC)
About Me
Cristian is a Professor in the CS Department at NJIT, where he has been since receiving his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2004. He has a visiting professor appointment at National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.
Education
Ph.D. ; Rutgers University-New Brunswick ; Computer Science ; 2004

M.S. ; Rutgers University-New Brunswick ; Computer Science ; 2002

M.S. ; Politehnica University of Bucharest ; Computer Science ; 1997

B.S. ; Politehnica University of Bucharest ; Computer Science ; 1996

2025 Fall Courses
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

IS 491 - SENIOR PROJECT - IS

IS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

IT 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS

CS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

IS 489 - INFO UNDERGRAD THESIS RESEARCH

IS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

IS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

CS 489 - COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJ

CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

IS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN INFO

IS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

IS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

IS 776 - IS RESEARCH STUDY

IS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

Teaching Interests
Cristian teaches classes on cloud computing, networking, and mobile computing.
Past Courses
CS 643: CLOUD COMPUTING

CS 656: INTRNET&HIGHER LAYER PRO

CS 698: ST:

CS 698: ST:ADV WEB/DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

CS 756: MOBILE COMPTNG & SENSOR NTWRK

CS 756: MOBILE COMPUTING & SENSOR NETWR

CS 786: SEL TOP IN COM INF SCI II

Research Interests
Cristian research interests include: mobile computing & sensing; ad hoc & vehicular networks; distributed systems & cloud computing; and computational advertising.
Conference Proceeding
"A Study of GDPR Compliance under the Transparency and Consent Framework"
International World Wide Web Conference (Web 2024), May, 2024.

"Reserve Price Optimization in First-Price Auctions via Multi-Task Learning"
ICDM 2023: 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, December, 2023.

"GoPlaces: An App for Personalized Indoor Place Prediction"
The 20th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2023), September, 2023.

"Zone-based Federated Learning for Mobile Sensing Data"
The 21st IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2023), March, 2023.

"Complement Sparsification: Low-Overhead Model Pruning for Federated Learning"
The 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February, 2023.

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Journal Article
Xiaopeng Jiang, Han Hu, Thinh On, Phung Lai, Vijaya Mayyuri, An Chen, Devu Shila, Adriaan Larmuseau, Ruoming Jin, Cristian M. Borcea, Hai Nhat Phan. 2024. "FLSys: Toward an Open Ecosystem for Federated Learning Mobile Apps." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC) .

Shuai Zhao, Michael Chen, Cristian M. Borcea, Yi Chen. 2023. "Personalized Dynamic Counter Ad-Blocking Using Deep Learning." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering , vol. 35 , no. 8 , pp. 14.

Abeer Hakeem, Reza Curtmola, Xiaoning Ding, Borcea. 2021. "DFPS: A Distributed Mobile System for Free Parking Assignment." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing .

Dai Hai Ton That, Iulian Sandu Popa, Karine Zeitouni, Cristian M. Borcea. 2021. "Mobile Participatory Sensing with Strong Privacy Guarantees Using Secure Probes." Springer GeoInformatica , vol. 25 , pp. pages 533–580.

Chang Guo, Demin Li, Guanglin Zhang, Xiaoning Ding, Reza Curtmola, Cristian M. Borcea. 2020. " Dynamic Interior Point Method for Vehicular Traffic Optimization." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , vol. 69 , no. 5 , pp. 4855 - 4868.

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Book
Cristian M. Borcea, Manoop Talasila, Reza Curtmola. "Mobile Crowdsensing." 183 pages pp. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2016. ISBN 1498738443.