Recent Research
Bourbon, B. and Murimi, R. (2024). Decentralization, Blockchain, and the Development of Smart Communities in Economically Challenging Environments. Ledger.
Jarjoui, S., Murimi, R.M., and Murimi, R. K. (2024). Communities, agency, and resilience: a perspective addressing tragedy of the cyber commons. 9(1), The Cyber Defense Review,
113-131.
Conger, S., Murimi, R., and Blanke, S. (2024). An exploration of factors influencing work effectiveness during COVID-19 work from home. Information Systems Management.
Hadipour, N., and Murimi, R. (2024). Medical Advisories as Deterrents in Healthcare Cybercrime. In Proceedings of the 4 th IEEE Cyber Awareness and Research Symposium (CARS).
About
Renita Murimi received her PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Previously, she received a Bachelor of Engineering (with Distinction) in Electronics and Communications from Manipal University, India. She also holds the (ISC2) Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.
Her research interests are in the areas of network science, cybersecurity, 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 Professor 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 forthcoming with No Starch Press.
Renita’s 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.