Teodora Baluta is a graduate of National University of Singapore (NUS), where she was advised by Prateek Saxena and Kuldeep S. Meel. During her time there she was a part of the KISP lab, as well as MeelGroup.

Teodora works in computer security and her thesis was on Rigorous Security Analyses for Machine Learning (ML) Systems. She enjoys problems that are both algorithmic and practically relevant. She has also worked on differential privacy for graphs at CCS 2021 and 2022, learnability of security analysis rules at NDSS 2019, improving SAT solving using causality at SAT 2023, and cross-language code translation at FSE 21 and OOPSLA 23.

Her research has been recognized and supported by the Google PhD Fellowship, EECS Rising Stars 2023, Dean’s Graduate Research Excellence Award, and the President’s Graduate Fellowship. I was selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, Asia-Pacific.