Adina Crainiceanu

Adina Crainiceanu is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the United States Naval Academy. Her research focuses on databases, distributed systems, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and data science.

Educational Background:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Cornell University (2006)

Professor Crainiceanu's work addresses challenges in dynamic, large-scale decentralized systems, including the development of the open-source Apache Rya project for scalable RDF storage and SPARQL query processing. Her recent research explores situation-aware access control, privacy-preserving intrusion detection, and federated SPARQL query optimization.

Scientific Awards:

• No awards explicitly mentioned in the text

She has co-chaired the Jean Bartik Computing Symposium at West Point (2025) and contributed to interdisciplinary projects spanning biostatistics and medical imaging.