About

Hi, I am Carolina! I am a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell University. I am based in the Cornell Tech campus in NYC, where I am advised by Tom Ristenpart. Broadly speaking, I am interested in applied cryptography, security, and privacy.

I was previously at MIT, where I was fortunate to be advised by Nathan Burow, Howie Shrobe, and Hamed Okhravi.

Note: I will be organizing the Cornell Security Seminar this spring (2024). Please contact me if you are interested in giving a talk.

Contact

email: carolina “at” cs “dot” cornell “dot” edu

• My name is in Spanish, my first name is pronounced as Ca-ro-lee-na.
• Ortega is not a middle name, both Ortega and Pérez are my last names.
• I use she/her pronouns.