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Gabriela
Cretu, PhD student
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Resume 
Address Email Phone Education Sept 2004 – present May 2007 Oct 2005 Oct 1998 – July 2003
B.S. engineering, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, School of Automatic Control and Computers,
Department of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics;Graduated as chief of my class, overall average: 9.89 / 10 Feb – May 2003
SOCRATES exchange student at l’Université de Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Lille, France
Completed research for graduation thesis: Fuzzy Control of an Inverted Pendulum
Prizes and scholarships June 2007 IBM First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center June 2007 IBM Thank You Award for co-organizing the Columbia/IBM/Stevens Security & Privacy Day May 2007 Paul Michelman Award for Exemplary Service to the Computer Science Department, Columbia University
May 2008, May 2007, May 2006 PhD Service Award, Computer Science Department, Columbia University
02/2003 – 05/2003 Scholarship at l’Université de Sciences et Technologies de Lille awarded by the European Community program in the field of higher education, SOCRATES/ERASMUS
1998 – 2002 Merit - based fellowship at School of Automatic Control and Computers, Polytechnic University of Bucharest
1994 – 1997 National Mathematics and Physics Contests, County Phase:
second prize - mathematics (1995)
fourth place - mathematics and physics (1994 – 1997)
Publications Conference and Workshop Publications
Gabriela F. Cretu-Ciocarlie, Angelos Stavrou, Michael E. Locasto
and Salvatore J. Stolfo, "Adaptive Anomaly Detection via Self-Calibration and Dynamic Updating". To appear in the 12th International Symposium On Recent Advances In Intrusion Detection, September 2009, Saint-Malo, Brittany,France Gabriela F. Cretu-Ciocarlie,
Mihai Budiu, and Moises Goldszmidt, "Hunting
for problems with Artemis". In the Proceedings of the
1st USENIX Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL), December
2008, San Diego, California. Michael E. Locasto,
Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos D. Keromytis, and Salvatore
J. Stolfo, "Return Value Predictability for
Self-Healing". In the Proceedings of the 3rd International
Workshop on Security (IWSEC), November 2008, Kagawa, Japan. Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos Stavrou, Michael E. Locasto, Salvatore J.
Stolfo, and Angelos D. Keromytis, "Casting out Demons: Sanitizing
Training Data for Anomaly Sensors". In the Proceedings of the
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2008, Oakland, CA.
Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos Stavrou, Michael E. Locasto, Salvatore J. Stolfo, "Extended Abstract:
Online Training and Sanitization of AD Systems", NIPS 2007 Workshop on Machine Learning in Adversarial Environments for Computer Security,
December 2007, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Gabriela F. Cretu,
Angelos Stavrou, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Angelos D. Keromytis, Data
Sanitization: Improving the Forensic Utility of Anomaly Detection
Systems, In the Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability
, June 2007, Edinburgh, UK.
Michael
E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu, and
Angelos D. Keromytis, From STEM to
SEAD: Speculative Execution for Automated Defense,In
the Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference. June
2007, Santa Clara, CA.
Gabriela F. Cretu, Janak J. Parekh, Ke Wang, Salvatore J. Stolfo,
Intrusion and Anomaly Detection Model Exchange for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,
In the Proceeding of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking
Conference, January 2006, Las Vegas, NV.
Ke Wang, Gabriela Cretu, Salvatore J. Stolfo,
Anomalous Payload-based Worm Detection and Signature Generation,
In the Proceeding of the 8th International Symposium of Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, April 2005,
Seattle, WA. Technical Reports Ted Habeck, Larry Koved, Orlando Marquez, Vugranam
C. Sreedhar, Michael Steiner, Wietse Venema, Samuel Weber, Gabriela F.
Cretu and Krishnaprasad Vikram, Experiences With Building Security Checking
and Understanding Tool, Technical Paper RC24243, IBM Research, April 2007.
Michael E. Locasto, Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos Stavrou, and Angelos D. Keromytis, A Model
for Automatically Repairing Execution Integrity,Tech Report
CUCS-005-07, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University,
January 2007.
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu, Angelos D. Keromytis and Salvatore J. Stolfo,
Quantifying Application Behavior Space for Detection and Self-Healing,
Tech Report CUCS-017-06. Department of Computer Science, Columbia University. April 2006.
Patent Applications Gabriela Cretu, Angelos Stavrou, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Angelos D. Keromytis, Michael E. Locasto, “Systems,
Methods, and Media for Generating Sanitized Data, Sanitizing Anomaly Detection Models, and/or Generating
Sanitized Anomaly Detection Models”, US patent application #20080262985
Vugranam C. Sreedhar, Gabriela F. Cretu, Julian T. Dolby, “Method and Apparatus for Detecting Vulnerabilities
and Bugs in Software Applications”, US patent application #20080184208
Work experience Sept 2004 – present: graduate research assistant in the Intrusion Detection Systems Lab, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
June 2008 – August 2008: summer Intern for Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley
May 2007 – August 2007: summer Intern for IBM T.J.
Watson Research Labs, New York
Sept 2006 – Dec 2006: teaching assistant in the
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University (Fall 2006 –
Intrusion Detection Systems )
May 2006 – August 2006: summer Intern for IBM T.J.
Watson Research Labs, New York May 2005 – August 2005: Columbia University STV consultant for Revive Systems, Inc., now StackSafe, Inc. Sept 2004 – Dec 2004: teaching assistant in the Department of Computer Science, Columbia University (Fall 2004 – Models of Computation and Computability, Intrusion Detection Systems )
Oct 2003 – Jun 2003: teaching assistant in the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara (Fall 2003 – Artificial Intelligence, Winter 2004 – Machine Learning, Spring 2004 – Introduction to Cryptography)
2000 – 2002: web programmer / web designer, “PC Hardware SRL” Company, Bucharest. Main activity in the field of SQL databases
Professional Activities
Co-organizer, Columbia/IBM/Stevens Security & Privacy
Day (June 2007) Program Committee member: 27th International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’07)
Reviewer: 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'07), 13th Annual Network and Distributed System
Security Symposium (NDSS’06), International Wireless Communications and
Mobile Computing Conference(IWCMC’06)
Organizer of the Columbia Computer Science Research
Symposium (2006) Technical skills Languages Other activities Oct 2005 - Feb 2008 elected PhD students representative in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University
1997-1998 member of the “Colegiul Mihail Cantacuzino” theatre group, shows in Romania and Greece
June 1997 “Rencontres Théâtrales Francophones en Roumanie” organized by l’Alliance Française de Ploiesti and the French Embassy Bucharest
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