NIDHI RASTOGI

Dr. Nidhi Rastogi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research is at the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, graph analytics, and data privacy. Prior to this, Dr. Rastogi was a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) leading three cybersecurity, AI projects on enterprise systems and autonomous vehicles. For her contributions to cybersecurity and encouraging women in STEM, Dr. Rastogi was recognized in 2020 as an International Women in Cybersecurity by the Cyber Risk Research Institute. She was a speaker at the SANS cybersecurity summit and the Grace Hopper Conference. Dr. Rastogi is the co-chair of the DYNAMICS workshop since 2020 and serves as a committee member on several security conferences and workshops. Dr. Rastogi was a FADEx laureate for the 1st French-American Program on Cyber-Physical Systems’16, Board Member (N2Women 2018-20), and Feature Editor for ACM XRDS Magazine (2015-17). Prior to her Ph.D. from RPI, Dr. Rastogi worked on the security of heterogeneous wireless networks (3G, 4G, 802.1x, 802.11), Smart Grid through engineering and research positions at Verizon and GE Global Research Center, and GE Power. She has interned at IBM Zurich, BBN Raytheon, GE GRC, and Yahoo, which provides her a quintessential perspective in applied industrial research and engineering.