Krista Grothoff

Professional Information - Krista Grothoff

Current Status	Working on plot for World Domination. Taking some classes. Writing a novel. Making trouble.
Educational Status	PhD student in Linguistics (ABD, December 2006 - no current plans to complete) Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA Doctoral advisor: Margie Berns Member of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Research Interests	Highly successful adult language learners; computational linguistics, privacy and censorship issues
Publications	Lost in Translation Christian Grothoff, Krista Grothoff, Ludmila Alkhutova, Ryan Stutsman and Mikhail Atallah Journal of Computer Security (Accepted - 2007) Lost in Just the Translation Ryan Stutsman, Mikhail Atallah, Christian Grothoff and Krista Grothoff Proceedings of the the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2006) April 2006 - Dijon, France Translation-Based Steganography Christian Grothoff, Krista Grothoff, Ludmila Alkhutova, Ryan Stutsman and Mikhail Atallah Proceedings of the 2005 Information Hiding Workshop (IH 2005) June 2005 - Barcelona, Spain Linguistic Steganography: Survey, Analysis, and Robustness Concerns for Hiding Information in Text Krista Bennett CERIAS TR 2004-13 Technical Report, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) May, 2004 - Purdue University Semantic Representation of English Phrasal Verbs Julija Televnaja, Krista Bennett, Christian Hempelmann and Katrina E. Triezenberg Intelligent Information Systems 2004: New Trends in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining (IIPWM 2004) May, 2004 - Zakopane, Poland GAP - Practical Anonymous Networking Krista Bennett and Christian Grothoff Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET 2003) March, 2003 - Dresden, Germany Efficient Sharing of Encrypted Data Krista Bennett, Christian Grothoff, Tzvetan Horozov and Ioana Patrascu Proceedings of the 7th Australiasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2002) July, 2002 - Melbourne, Australia
Research/Work Experience	Fall 2005 - Summer 2006: Systems Engineer - Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Carson, California Spring 2005: Instructor - Elements of Linguistics (English 227) - Department of English, Purdue University Fall 2004: Instructor - American Culture - Purdue Village ESOL Program Fall 2003 - Spring 2005: Research assistant for Ronnie Wilbur and Avi Kak, working on automatic recognition of American Sign Language Fall 2002 - Spring 2003: Research assistant for Victor Raskin and Mike Atallah, working on natural language information assurance and security Summer 2002, Summer 2003: Research assistant for Jan Vitek, working on documentation for the OVM virtual machine project Fall 2001 - current: Developer on the GNUnet secure peer-to-peer networking framework Spring 2000: Firmware/Test Engineer, Hewlett-Packard High Performance Systems Lab (HPSL), Roseville, California
Honors	Graduate: Fall 2000 - Spring 2002: GAANN Doctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University Undergraduate: Fall 1999: College of Engineering Outstanding Student Award (Academic), awarded to the most academically outstanding graduating senior. College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Fall 1990 - Spring 1994: National Merit Scholar, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
Education	Fall 2002 - Fall 2006: PhD student in Linguistics, Purdue University (ABD: December 2006) Fall 2000 - Summer 2002: MS in Computer Science, Purdue University Fall 1997 - Fall 1999: BS in Computer Science (Summa cum laude), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Fall 1990 - Spring 1994: Bachelor's studies in History and Spanish, University of New Orleans
Graduate coursework	Fall 2000 - Fall 2006: Linguistics: Introduction to Linguistics - Victor Raskin Phonology I: Descriptive Analysis - Robert Hammond Phonology II: Theoretical Approaches - Diane Brentari Syntax I: Syntactic Analysis - Elena Benedicto Syntax II: Issues in Syntax - Ronnie Wilbur Semantics I: Lexical and Sentential Semantics - Victor Raskin Natural Language Discourse Processing - Victor Raskin Historical Linguistics and Language Study - Robert Channon Natural Language Processing - Victor Raskin Teaching ESL: Theoretical Foundations - Margie Berns Old Norse - Shaun Hughes Statistical Methods - Tonglin Zhang Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning - Howard Grabois Research PhD Thesis - Victor Raskin Research PhD Thesis - Margie Berns Directed Reading in Linguistics (Individual Seminar for Doctoral Preliminary Exam) - Margie Berns Computer Science: Algorithm Design, Analysis, and Implementation - Greg Frederickson Compiling and Programming Systems - Tony Hosking Formal Compiling Methods - Jens Palsberg Programming Languages - Jens Palsberg Software Engineering - Jan Vitek Information Security - Clay Shields Cryptography - Mike Atallah Secure Multiparty Computation - Mike Atallah Operating Systems - Sonia Fahmy Introduction to Natural Language Processing - Victor Raskin
Languages	English (mother tongue), Dutch, Spanish, German (Zertifikat Deutsch ), French (reading knowledge)
Programming languages	C/C++, Java, various flavors of assembly language, others

Last updated 07 November 2007 • Krista Grothoff

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