Cristian Borcea
Scholar

Cristian Borcea

Google Scholar ID: wSQ6KZYAAAAJ
Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Mobile ComputingDistributed Machine LearningPrivacyComputational Advertising
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,347
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
35
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
85
list available
Contact
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Paper on secure inference for graph neural networks at ACM CCS 2025; Talks at NII, Japan, and University of Bologna, Italy, in 2025 on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Systems, Ad-supported Online Publishing Challenges, and Federated Learning for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices; Former student Xiaopeng Jiang won the Joseph Leung Award for Best CS Ph.D. Thesis in 2025 (ranked 2nd across all NJIT); General Chair of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2026).
Research Experience
  • Extensive research experience in areas such as distributed machine learning, mobile computing and sensing, online privacy, and computational advertising.
Education
  • Ph.D. from Rutgers University; M.S./B.S. from University Politehnica, Bucharest, Romania.
Background
  • Professor in the Computer Science Department at NJIT; Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan. Research interests include distributed machine learning, mobile computing and sensing, online privacy, and computational advertising.
Miscellany
  • Looking for high-quality candidates annually for the NSF CyberCorps Scholarship For Service project: NJIT Secure Computing Initiative; Typically teaches CS 643: Cloud Computing each semester.