Tamara Bonaci

Tamara Bonaci is a faculty member at the College of Computer and Information Science at the Northeastern University. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 2015. Her research interests focus on security and privacy of biomedical technologies, with a special interest on emerging technologies. Some of technologies Bonaci has been focusing on in recent years include: teleoperated robots, brain-computer interfaces, deep-brain stimulators, bionic eyes, intelligent personal assistants, and medication adherence tools.

Bonaci is an IEEE and USENIX member, as well as a member of the Women in Security and Privacy (WISP), and the NeuroEthics Women Leaders (NEW) groups. Bonaci feels very strongly about diversity in engineering, and about bringing and retaining underrepresented minorities in STEM.

Research Interests

• Security and privacy
• Biosystems
• Robotics and control

Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, 2015
  University of Washington
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, 2012
  University of Washington
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2008
  University of Zagreb, Croatia

Latest Awards

• First Peden Fellowship awardee selected
• Chizeck, Bonaci, Calo Win Best Paper Award at IEEE Ethics 2014