Reza Curtmola
Professor, Computer Science
4301 Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC)
Education
Ph.D.
; Johns Hopkins University
; Computer Science
; 2007
M.S. ; Johns Hopkins University ; Computer Science ; 2003
B.S. ; Politehnica University of Bucharest ; Computer Science ; 2001
M.S. ; Johns Hopkins University ; Computer Science ; 2003
B.S. ; Politehnica University of Bucharest ; Computer Science ; 2001
Experience
NJIT, Department of Computer Science
Professor,
June 2019 -
Website
2025 Fall Courses
CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CS 489 - COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJ
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CS 489 - COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJ
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
Past Courses
CS 408: CRYPTOGRAPHY & INTERNET SECRTY
CS 645: SECURITY & PRIVACY IN COMP SYS
CS 645: SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS
CS 646: NETWORK PROTOCOLS SECURITY
CS 696: NETWORK MGMT & SECURITY
CS 698: ST:
CS 698: ST: NETWORK PROTOCOLS SECURITY
CS 698: ST:DATA SECURITY
CS 708: DATA SECURITY AND PRIVACY
CS 791: DOCTORAL SEMINAR
CS 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
CS 645: SECURITY & PRIVACY IN COMP SYS
CS 645: SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS
CS 646: NETWORK PROTOCOLS SECURITY
CS 696: NETWORK MGMT & SECURITY
CS 698: ST:
CS 698: ST: NETWORK PROTOCOLS SECURITY
CS 698: ST:DATA SECURITY
CS 708: DATA SECURITY AND PRIVACY
CS 791: DOCTORAL SEMINAR
CS 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
Conference Proceeding
"FlipStress: Noise Injection Defenses Against CPU-cache-based Web Attacks"
Proc. of The 21st EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm '25), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2025.
"Rethinking Trust in Forge-Based Git Security"
Proc. of the 32nd Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '25), February, 2025.
"Bootstrapping Trust in Community Repository Projects"
Proc. of The 18th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm '22), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2022.
"Targeted Deanonymization via the Cache Side Channel: Attacks and Defenses"
Proc. of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '22), August, 2022.
"Leakuidator: Leaky resource attacks and countermeasures"
Proc. of The 17th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm '21), September, 2021.
Proc. of The 21st EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm '25), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2025.
"Rethinking Trust in Forge-Based Git Security"
Proc. of the 32nd Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '25), February, 2025.
"Bootstrapping Trust in Community Repository Projects"
Proc. of The 18th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm '22), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2022.
"Targeted Deanonymization via the Cache Side Channel: Attacks and Defenses"
Proc. of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '22), August, 2022.
"Leakuidator: Leaky resource attacks and countermeasures"
Proc. of The 17th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm '21), September, 2021.
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Journal Article
Mojtaba Zaheri, Yossi Oren, Reza Curtmola.
2025. "Contention-Based Side Channels Enable Faster and Stealthier Browsing History Sniffing."
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing , vol. 22 , no. 4 , pp. 3692 - 3707.
Hammad Afzali, Santiago Torres-Arias, Reza Curtmola, Justin Cappos. 2023. " Towards verifiable web-based code review systems." Journal of Computer Security / IOS Press , pp. 32 pages.
Anrin Chakraborti, Reza Curtmola, Jonathan Katz, Jason Nieh, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Radu Sion, Yinqian Zhang. 2022. "Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Research Directions." Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security , vol. 3 , no. 2 , pp. 115.
Abeer Hakeem, Reza Curtmola, Xiaoning Ding, Borcea. 2021. "DFPS: A Distributed Mobile System for Free Parking Assignment." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing .
Hammad Afzali, Santiago Torres-Arias, Reza Curtmola, Justin Cappos. 2020. "Towards Adding Verifiability to Web-based Git Repositories." Journal of Computer Security / IOS Press , vol. 28 , no. 4 , pp. 32 pages.
Hammad Afzali, Santiago Torres-Arias, Reza Curtmola, Justin Cappos. 2023. " Towards verifiable web-based code review systems." Journal of Computer Security / IOS Press , pp. 32 pages.
Anrin Chakraborti, Reza Curtmola, Jonathan Katz, Jason Nieh, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Radu Sion, Yinqian Zhang. 2022. "Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Research Directions." Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security , vol. 3 , no. 2 , pp. 115.
Abeer Hakeem, Reza Curtmola, Xiaoning Ding, Borcea. 2021. "DFPS: A Distributed Mobile System for Free Parking Assignment." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing .
Hammad Afzali, Santiago Torres-Arias, Reza Curtmola, Justin Cappos. 2020. "Towards Adding Verifiability to Web-based Git Repositories." Journal of Computer Security / IOS Press , vol. 28 , no. 4 , pp. 32 pages.
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Chapter
Bo Chen, Reza Curtmola, Jun Dai.
"Auditable Version Control Systems in Untrusted Public Clouds."
In Ivan Mistrik, Rami Bahsoon, Nour Ali, Maritta Heisel, and Bruce Maxim, eds.,
pp. 353-366. Elsevier - Morgan Kaufmann, 2017.
Reza Curtmola, Bo Chen. "Availability, Recovery, and Auditing across Data Centers chapter in "Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges"." In John Vacca, eds., pp. 21 pages. CRC Press, 2016.
Reza Curtmola, Bo Chen. "Integrity Assurance for Data Outsourcing chapter in "Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges"." In John Vacca, eds., pp. 12 pages. CRC Press, 2016.
Manoop Talasila, Reza Curtmola, Cristian M. Borcea. "Mobile Crowd Sensing chapter in Handbook of Sensor Networking: Advanced Technologies and Applications." In John Vacca, eds., pp. 23. CRC Press, 2015.
Reza Curtmola, Bo Chen. "Availability, Recovery, and Auditing across Data Centers chapter in "Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges"." In John Vacca, eds., pp. 21 pages. CRC Press, 2016.
Reza Curtmola, Bo Chen. "Integrity Assurance for Data Outsourcing chapter in "Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges"." In John Vacca, eds., pp. 12 pages. CRC Press, 2016.
Manoop Talasila, Reza Curtmola, Cristian M. Borcea. "Mobile Crowd Sensing chapter in Handbook of Sensor Networking: Advanced Technologies and Applications." In John Vacca, eds., pp. 23. CRC Press, 2015.
Book
Cristian M. Borcea, Manoop Talasila, Reza Curtmola.
"Mobile Crowdsensing."
183 pages pp. Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2016. ISBN 1498738443.
Radu Sion, Reza Curtmola, Sven Dietrich, A Kiayias, J. M Miret, K Sako, F Sebe. "Workshops of the 2010 Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference (Editors)." 257 p. pp. Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Springer, 2010. ISBN 978-3-642-14991-7.
Radu Sion, Reza Curtmola, Sven Dietrich, A Kiayias, J. M Miret, K Sako, F Sebe. "Workshops of the 2010 Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference (Editors)." 257 p. pp. Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Springer, 2010. ISBN 978-3-642-14991-7.
Other
"POSTER: Remote Data Integrity Checking for Cloud Storage"
National Science Foundation: SaTC PI Meeting, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2015.
"POSTER: Auditable Version Control Systems"
Stony Brook: National Security Institute (opening event), September, 2014.
National Science Foundation: SaTC PI Meeting, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2015.
"POSTER: Auditable Version Control Systems"
Stony Brook: National Security Institute (opening event), September, 2014.