Catalin Cosoi

As Chief Security Strategist, Alexandru Catalin Cosoi wears many hats, from energizing and publicizing the company's technological progress from within the CTO Office, to leading the cyber-intelligence team tasked with helping local and international law enforcement agencies fight cybercrime, to serving as a company spokesperson with global media, at conferences and within security industry on advanced security topics and investigations.

With a Bachelor’s degree in bioengineering and machine learning, and a PhD in natural language processing, he specializes in pattern extraction and recognition technologies, with a focus on neural networks and machine learning. He’s been granted six patents and a series of classification technologies implemented within Bitdefender software.

Alexandru also serves as a current member of the Internet Security Advisory Group at Europol and the Bitdefender liaison with Interpol, while maintaining contact with over 60 CERTs worldwide.