Teodora Baluta
Scholar

Teodora Baluta

Google Scholar ID: HXcs2NIAAAAJ
Georgia Institute of Technology
Security and PrivacyMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
375
 
H-index
7
 
i10-index
7
 
Publications
14
 
Co-authors
24
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Google PhD Fellowship (2021–2023)
  • Selected for EECS Rising Stars 2023
  • Dean’s Graduate Research Excellence Award (Semester 2, 2022–2023)
  • President’s Graduate Fellowship (2017–2021)
  • Finalist for Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, Asia-Pacific (2021)
  • Publications in top venues including CCS, ICSE, NDSS, FSE, OOPSLA, SAT, and NeurIPS
  • Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025: 'Testing LLM Provenance with Minimal Assumptions'
  • Invited talks at CISPA, Max Planck Institute, UC Santa Barbara, Northeastern, Purdue, Georgia Tech, University of Waterloo, Columbia, USC, UIC, University of Sydney, ASU, and UBC
Background
  • Assistant Professor at the School of Cybersecurity & Privacy, Georgia Tech
  • Research focuses on computer security, particularly rigorous security analyses for machine learning (ML) systems
  • Work includes formal definitions, causal abstractions, and sound procedures for statistical verifiability
  • Interested in problems that are both algorithmic and practically relevant
  • Also worked on differential privacy for graphs, learnability of security analysis rules, causality-enhanced SAT solving, and cross-language code translation