Research Team
-- Samir Jarjoui, DBA (Defended his dissertation in Summer 2022) Congratulations to Samir on passing his defense!
Publications
My research interests lie in the areas of computational social science, cybersecurity, blockchain and network science.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- Equifinality in Cybersecurity Research: Opportunities and Future Research. Brett Landry, Renita Murimi, and Greg Bell. In Effective Cybersecurity Operations for Enterprise-Wide Systems. IGI Global. Forthcoming.
- A Decade of Development in Mental Models in Cybersecurity and Lessons for the Future. Robert Murimi, Sandra Blanke, and Renita Murimi. Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 2023.
- A Framework for Enterprise Cybersecurity Risk Management. Samir Jarjoui and Renita Murimi. Advances in Cybersecurity Management, Springer, 2021.
- Use of Botnets for Mining Cryptocurrencies. Renita Murimi. in Botnets: Architectures, Countermeasures, and Challenges
CRC Series in Security, Privacy and Trust by Taylor & Francis, 2019. - Visualization Tools for Big Data Analytics in Quantitative Chemical Analysis: A Tutorial in Chemometrics. Geral Dumancas, Ghalib Bello, J. Hughes, Renita Murimi, Lakshmi Viswanath, Casey Orndorff, G. Dumancas, J. O’Dell. Handbook of Research on Big Data Storage and Visualization Techniques, 2018.
- Wireless Body Area Networks for mHealth: The Technology Road Map. Garth V. Crosby, Tirthankar Ghosh, Renita Murimi, and Craig A. Chin, Mobile Health: A Technology Road Map, ed. Sasan Adibi, Springer, 2015.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
- Equifinality in Blockchain Resilience: The Role of Organizational, Environmental, and Cybersecurity Factors. (2023). Renita Murimi, Brett J. L. Landry, and Greg Bell. Proceedings of the 2023 European DSI Annual Conference.
- What makes AI addictive? The role of discounting, risk aversion and self-regulation. (2022). Renita Murimi. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing.
- A Decade of Development of Mental Models in Cybersecurity and Lessons for the Future. Robert Murimi, Sandra Blanke, Renita Murimi. Proceedings of Cyber Science 2022. Video.
- On a Territorial Notion of a Smart Home. Shreenidhi Ayinala and Renita Murimi. Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Cybersecurity and the Social Sciences. CySSS 2022.
- Hold My Beer: A Case Study of how Ransomware Affected an Australian Beverage Company. Samir Jarjoui, Robert K. Murimi, and Renita Murimi. In Proceedings of Cyber Incident 2021.
- Before-after COVID-19 work. Sue Conger, Sandra Blanke, and Renita Murimi. Proceedings of the Session on PLSAS Multidisciplinary Research Applications at 25th Annual Western Hemispheric Trade Conference (WHT), April 2021.
- The New Normal in the COVID-19 Pandemic for Remote Workers. Sandra Blanke and Renita Murimi. In Proceedings of the Southwest Academy of Management (SWAM) 2021 Conference.
- The Gossip Economy of Online Social Media. Brett Bourbon and Renita Murimi. 2021 ACM CHI Misinformation Workshop.
- A Subsidy Model for Social Media Interventions. Renita Murimi. The AAAI-21 Workshop on Behavior Change for Social Good held at the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21).
- Public or private blockchain? The role of institutional and firm-level factors. Renita Murimi, Greg Bell, Sri Beldona, and Abdul Rasheed. Journal of International Management PDW Workshop for the Special Issue on the Impact of Digital Technologies on Firms' International Strategies.
- On the Complexity of Assimilation in Urban Communities. Renita Murimi. Conference on Complex Systems (CCS) Workshop on Urban Complex Systems CCS - 2020.
- On the Vagaries of Robotic Trolls. Brett Bourbon and Renita Murimi. 6th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2020).
- On the Design of Social Robots Using Sheaf Theory and Smart Contracts. Renita Murimi. Symposium on Blockchain for Robotics and AI Systems (BRAIS 2019), MIT Media Lab, December 2019.
- A Blockchain-enhanced framework for social networking sites. Renita Murimi. Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems, MIT Media Lab, .December 2018.
- On the Design of Online Social Networks for Meaningful Social Reform. Renita Murimi. World Engineering Education Forum 2018 Conference.
- To Share or Not to Share: Is Your Social Network Verbose or Reticent? Renita Murimi. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, DSI 2018.
- Confessions of an Anonymous Mind: An Analysis of Parenting and Family Conversations in Anonymous Networks. Renita Murimi. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, DSI 2018.
- Operations of a Game Show: Dynamic Programming Analysis of Family Feud. Renita Murimi and Roger Flint, Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Track on Decision Models in Operations, 2016.
- An Analysis of Trimming in Digital Social Networks. Renita Murimi. AAAI 2016 Workshop on Incentives and Trust in e-Communities (WIT-EC 2016), February 2016.
- Sparking Creativity in Computer Science for Interdisciplinary Students. Renita Murimi. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, October 2013.
- Advances and Challenges of Wireless Body Area Networks for Health Applications. Craig Chin, Garth Crosby, Tirthankar Ghosh and Renita Murimi. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networking and Communications (ICNC), January 2012.
- Network planning for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks for environmental survivability. Renita Machado, Wensheng Zhang and Guiling Wang. Invited Paper, 21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, (ICTAI 2009).
- Entropy of establishing connectivity to cluster-heads in wireless sensor networks. Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay. Student Paper Track, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, April 2008.
- Neural network based approach for adaptive density control and reliability in wireless sensor networks. Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2008).
- Cognition and attention in wireless sensor networks. Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay. 4th IEEE Upstate NY Workshop in Communications, Sensors and Networking, 2007.
- Bounds on the error in estimating redundancy in randomly deployed wireless sensor networks. Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay. International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM 2007).
- Diffusion based approach to deploying sensors to achieve coverage, connectivity and reliability. Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay. 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. (MobiQuitous 2007).
- Reading a book through the eyes of reality. Renita Machado and Robert Murimi. Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis, (CaSTA 2006), New Brunswick, Canada, October 2006.
REPORTS AND TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
- Best Practices and Innovation in Cybersecurity Training and Certifications. Renita Murimi, Mike Morris and George Edeh. Prepared for the NIST Subgroup on Training and Certifications, 2020.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- Governance in DAOs: Lessons in Composability from Primate Societies and Modular Software. (2022). Renita Murimi. MIT Computational Law Report’s Collected Works on Composable Governance.
- When Humans Judge Other Humans Using Machines. Renita Murimi. MIT Computational Law Report, Release 3.1, May 2021.
- A Reconceptualization of Online Misinformation Diffusion. Brett Bourbon and Renita Murimi. arXiv.
- On the Complexity of Assimilation in Urban Communities. Renita Murimi, Applied Network Science.
- A Survey on Consortium Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms. Yao, W., Ye, J., Murimi, R., & Wang, G. (2021). arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.12058.
- A Framework for Contractual Graphs. Renita Murimi. Frontiers in Big Data - Special Issue on Representation Learning for Graph Mining and Generation, 2021.
- On Elastic Incentives for Blockchain Oracles. Renita Murimi, R. & Grace Wang. Journal of Database Management – Special Issue on Blockchain and Smart Contracts, 2020.
- On the Design of Social Robots Using Sheaf Theory and Smart Contracts. Renita Murimi. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020.
- Disruptive change in today’s innovation: A case study analysis of OptimalPlus. Daryl Green, Renita Murimi, Taylor Matheson, Cristina Roach. Rachel Stafford. Management and Economics Research Journal, Vol. 5, Article ID 856457, April 2019.
- A Blockchain-enhanced framework for social networking sites. Renita Murimi. Ledger, April 2019.
- Chemometrics: From Data Processing to Fog Computing. G. Dumancas, G. Bello, J. Hughes, R. Murimi, L. Viswanath, C. Orndorff, G. F. Dumancas, J. O’Dell. International Journal of Fog Computing,
- Wireless Body Area Networks: A Survey. Garth Crosby, Tirthankar Ghosh, Renita Murimi and Craig Chin. International Journal of Ad Hoc, Sensor and Ubiquitous Computing (IJASUC), Vol. 3, No. 3, 2012.
- Coverage Properties of Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks. Renita Machado, Wensheng Zhang, Guiling Wang and Sirin Tekinay, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 7(2), 2010.
- Diffusion-based Approach to Deploying Wireless Sensors to Satisfy Coverage and Connectivity. Renita Machado, Wensheng Zhang, Guiling Wang and Sirin Tekinay, International Journal of Sensor Networks, 8(3/4), 2010.
- Redundancy estimation and adaptive density control in wireless sensor networks. Renita Machado, Haibo He, Guiling Wang and Sirin Tekinay, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, 10(2-3), pp. 153-176, 2010.
- Adaptive Density Control in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks with and without Power Management. Renita Machado, Nirwan Ansari, Guiling Wang and Sirin Tekinay, Special issue on Vehicular Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, IET Communications, 4(7), 2010.
- Towards developing attentive wireless sensor networks. Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay. International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, Jan. 2009.
- A survey of game theoretic approaches in wireless sensor networks. Renita Machado and Sirin Tekinay. Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol. 52, Issue 16, November 2008.
OPEN-PLATFORM PUBLICATIONS
- Blockchain for Food. Medium. March 2021.
AWARDS
Along with Josiane Nzouonta, I received the 2011 Grand Challenges Explorations Award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. More information about the scope of this award and the research can be found here.