Adina Crainiceanu

About

Welcome! I am a Teaching Professor in the Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins University. My primary focus is on delivering high-quality computer science education and mentoring the next generation of computer scientists. My research interests lie at the intersection of databases and distributed systems, with a focus on optimizing information retrieval within complex, decentralized systems.

Teaching

Courses at JHU

• Big Data Systems
• Gateway Computing: Python
• Databases

Previously Taught Courses at USNA

• Data Storage
• Computer Science Capstone
• Mobile OS Development
• Introduction to Computing
• Web and Internet Programming
• Web and Databases for Cyber Operations
• Applied Database Systems
• Advanced Database Systems
• Object Oriented Programming
• Database Management and Organization

Selected Publications

• MATS: A Multi-aspect and Adaptive Trust-based Situation-aware Access Control Framework for Federated Data-as-a-Service SystemsDae-Young Kim, Nujood Alodadi, Zhiyuan Chen, Karuna P. Joshi, Adina Crainiceanu, Don Needham. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), Barcelona, Spain, 2022, Pages 54-64
• Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Intrusion Detection Using Additive Secret Sharing and Differential Privacy. Laylon Mokry, Paul Slife, Patrick Bishop, Jose Quiroz, Cooper Guzzi, Zhiyuan Chen, Adina Crainiceanu, Don Needham.2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data 2021), December 2021, Pages 3324-3333
• Cluster-Based Joins for Federated SPARQL Queries. Fan Yang, Adina Crainiceanu, Zhiyuan Chen, Don Needham. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), December 2021
• An Improved Algorithm of White Matter Hyperintensity Detection in Elderly Adults Tianyu Ding, Ann D Cohen, Erin E O'Connor, Helmet Karim, Adina Crainiceanu, John Muschelli, Oscal L Lopez, William E Klunk, Howard J Aizenstein, Robert Krafty, Ciprian M Crainiceanu, Dana L Tudorascu. Neuroimage Clinical, Volume 25, 2020
• The Upstrap. Ciprian Crainiceanu, Adina Crainiceanu. Biostatistics, 25 September 2018
• Bloofi: Multidimensional Bloom Filters Adina Crainiceanu, Daniel Lemire. Information Systems. Volume 54, December 2015, p. 311-324
• SPARQL in the Cloud Using Rya. Roshan Punnoose, Adina Crainiceanu and David Rapp. Information Systems. Volume 48, March 2015, p. 181-195
• Bloofi: A Hierarchical Bloom Filter Index with Applications to Distributed Data Provenance. Adina Crainiceanu. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence (Cloud-I 2013), 2013
• Quantifying the reliability of image replication studies: The image intraclass correlation coefficient (I2C2). H Shou, A Eloyan, S Lee, V Zipunnikov, Adina Crainiceanu, MB Nebel, B Caffo, MA Lindquist, CM Crainiceanu. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 13(4), December 2013, p. 714-724
• Rya: a scalable RDF triple store for the clouds. Roshan Punnoose, Adina Crainiceanu, David Rapp. Cloud-I '12 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence, 2012
• Load Balancing and Range Queries in P2P Systems Using P-Ring. Adina Crainiceanu, Prakash Linga, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Johannes Gehrke, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 2011
• P-ring: an efficient and robust P2P range index structure. Adina Crainiceanu, Prakash Linga, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Johannes Gehrke, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram. SIGMOD '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, 2007
• Querying peer-to-peer networks using P-trees. Adina Crainiceanu, Prakash Linga, Johannes Gehrke, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram. WebDB '04 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on the Web and Databases: colocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004, 2004
• Peer-to-Peer Sharing of Web Applications. Roberto J. Bayardo, Adina Crainiceanu, Rakesh Agrawal. WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters, 2003

Contact Information

Office Hours

Please check the course syllabus or contact me via email to schedule an appointment.

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Cornell University, 2006
M.S., Computer Science, Cornell University, 2004
M.S., Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania, 1999
B.S., Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania, 1997