Vero Estrada-Galiñanes

Keywords: erasure codes; data entanglement; redundancy; replication; network reliability; survivability; fault-tolerance; availability; scalability; distributed systems; storage systems; long-term storage; archival storage

Vero Estrada-Galiñanes ​is an Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Vero's main research interests are dependable systems, file and storage systems, distributed systems, particularly decentralized systems and their applications to empower individuals, communities and societies. To attain her goals, she often conducts interdisciplinary research across various areas and brings the socio-technical and ethical perspective to the design and development of systems.

She received a PhD (2017) in Computer Science from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Previously, she had received an Electronics Engineer diploma (2003) from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a degree (2005) in security and cryptography after 1-year postgraduate course at the Higher Education Army Institute, Argentina. Additionally, she obtained a Masters in Arts and Science degree (2011) from the University of Tokyo, Japan. She has been affiliated to the University of California, Santa Cruz as a visiting scholar at the Storage Systems Research Center during 2016, and to the University of Copenhagen as a postdoctoral fellow in the area of health informatics during 2018. She has received fellowships and grants from the national research agencies of Argentina, Japan, and Switzerland. She has presented research outcomes at DSN, EuroSys co-located workshops, CLUSTER, SSS, FAST, SYSTOR. This year, she published two journals related to the management of personal health-related data. Additionally, she has substantial experience in the industry and public government in technical and leadership positions.

Vero has collaborated with FOSS projects. She has volunteered as a news editor for the ACM Students magazine Xroads, at events organized by the Rotary club Saitama, the Argentine Embassy in Tokyo. She is a member of the steering committee for the non-profit "Lecturers without Borders".