Renita Murimi is an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Dallas. She holds a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications from Manipal University in India. Her research interests trespass upon many disciplines, including network science, cybersecurity, blockchain, and computational social science. She is passionate about interdisciplinary explorations, and was the co-recipient of the 2011 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations Award for examination of the navigation behavior of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.
Renita has published widely in book chapters, academic journals, and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Her first book, along with co-author Brett Bourbon, Organized Skepticism in The Age of Misinformation: Surviving the Kingdom of Gossip (Routledge, 2025) explores how information spreads in online networks, and offers a new understanding of information as a form of gossip, while shedding light on the often overused and confused terms of our time: information, misinformation, and knowledge. Her second book, Ten Modern Cryptographic Algorithms, examines the inner workings of ten cryptographic algorithms that have shaped modern data protection. This book is under contract and forthcoming with No Starch Press.
Her teaching has been recognized for outstanding contributions in the area of teaching. She is a recipient of the Haggerty Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Dallas, where her teaching has been lauded for not only exemplary classroom instruction but also for exceptional advising and mentoring.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renita-murimi-763888123/
Website: https://renitamurimi.github.io/
ISSA International Events Featuring Renita Murimi
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