Gabriela Ciocarlie

Gabriela Ciocarlie has a diverse and extensive work experience in various roles and positions. Gabriela is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio since July 2021. Prior to that, they served as the Vice President for Securing Automation and Secure Manufacturing Architecture at CyManII | Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute starting in November 2020.

In 2020, Gabriela also held roles at Elpha Secure, where they were an Advisor from June 2021 onwards, and served as the Chief Product Officer from September 2020 to June 2021.

Prior to their roles at Elpha Secure and CyManII, Gabriela worked at SRI International. Gabriela held multiple positions at SRI International, including Sr. Technical Manager from December 2017 to September 2020, Program Manager from April 2017 to December 2017, Senior Computer Scientist from July 2015 to April 2017, and Computer Scientist from January 2012 to July 2015.

Gabriela also has teaching experience as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York in January to May 2015.

Their earlier work experience includes roles at Real-Time Innovations as a Senior Security Research Engineer from October 2011 to November 2011, and as a Security Research Engineer from March 2010 to October 2011. Gabriela also worked as an Associate Consultant at Cigital from September 2009 to February 2010.

Gabriela's career began as a Graduate Research Assistant at Columbia University from September 2004 to September 2009. Gabriela also served as a Summer Intern at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley in June to August 2008, and at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in May to August 2007.

Gabriela Ciocarlie's education history includes a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Engineering from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, which they obtained from 1998 to 2003. Afterward, they pursued a PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University from 2004 to 2009. In between their studies at the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and Columbia University, Gabriela attended UC Santa Barbara in 2003, although the specific degree and field of study are not mentioned.