Dr. Nidhi Rastogi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology and is affiliated with the Global Cybersecurity Institute and Center for Human-aware AI (CHAI) at RIT. Her research is at the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, graph analytics with applications in autonomous vehicles, enterprise networks, and healthcare systems. Prior to this, Dr. Rastogi was a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from where she also got her Ph.D. in Computer Science. 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 an invited speaker at Aspen Institute, the SANS cybersecurity summit, and the Grace Hopper Conference. Dr. Rastogi was a co-chair of the DYNAMICS workshop in 2020 and serves as a program 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 (2015-18). 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.
