Andreea B. Alexandru

University of Maryland, College Park, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

Total Citations

144

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About

Andreea B. Alexandru is a leading researcher at the intersection of control theory, cybersecurity, and privacy, with a focus on securing networked and cloud-based control systems. Her work addresses critical vulnerabilities in modern infrastructures such as smart grids, building automation, robot swarms, and intelligent transportation systems. Her most cited paper, "Encrypted Control for Networked Systems: An Illustrative Introduction and Current Challenges" (2021, 123 citations), provides a foundational overview of how encryption can be integrated into control loops without sacrificing performance, establishing her as a key voice in this emerging field. Alexandru also introduced the novel concept of "Motion Planning with Secrecy" (2019), where she formalized the problem of ensuring a robot's trajectory remains confidential during wireless communication—a pioneering contribution to privacy-aware robotics. Her work on "Private Weighted Sum Aggregation for Distributed Control Systems" (2020, 7 citations) further advances secure data aggregation in distributed networks, essential for IoT applications. Through her research, Alexandru is shaping the future of secure, privacy-preserving control systems, making her work indispensable for engineers and researchers developing resilient cyber-physical systems.