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Gabriela Cretu, PhD
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Resume
Email Phone Education ·
Sept 2009 ·
May 2007 ·
Oct 2005 ·
Oct 1998 - July 2003 ·
Feb - May
2003 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: 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 ·
Mar 2010 - present: security research engineer, Real-Time Innovations,
Inc. ·
Sept 2009 - Feb 2010: associate consultant, Cigital, Inc. ·
Sept 2004
- Sept 2009: 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) ·
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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 |
