Prof. Daniela Oliveira, PhD
Foundational Member of ISAAAC Advisory Board
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering. University of Florida

Daniela Oliveira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. She then earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis. Her main research interest is interdisciplinary computer security, where she employs successful ideas from other fields to make computer systems more secure. Her current research interests include systems and IoT attack forensics via dynamic information flow tracking, adding uncertainty to OS behavior to increase attackers’ work factor, understanding and addressing spear phishing susceptibility, cross-layer and personalized security, and understanding developer’s security blind spots. She received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2012 for her innovative research into operating systems’ defense against attacks using virtual machines and the 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama. She is a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow and a National Academy of Engineers Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Alumni. Her research has been sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and MIT Lincoln Laboratory.



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