ACADEMIC PARKOUR

About the parkour: 'There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
A WOman must constantly exceed hER level.' (slightly modified quoted from Bruce Lee) 

Vero has built her career mainly in Argentina, Japan, USA, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway. She has visited 40 countries, speaks fluently four languages (Spanish, English, French, German) and has some knowledge of Japanese. She has been affiliated to these institutions:

NETWORK MEMBERSHIPS ✦ ACM Professional member ✦ IEEE Senior member ✦ IC3 The initiative for cryptocurrencies and contracts (Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Cornell Tech, EPFL, ETH Zurich, UC Berkeley, University College London, UIUC and Technion) ✦ Google’s Women Techmakers

RESEARCH INTERESTS: systems - SECURITY - SOCIETY

Dr. Estrada is an established researcher working in the cross-disciplinary area of systems, security, and society. She has gave talks and/or co-authored research outcomes appearing at IEEE ICBC, Chainscience, Crypto Finance St. Moritz Research track, IEEE S&P, SOSP, AFT, Financial Crypto co-located workshops, Middleware, DSN, EuroSys co-located workshops, ACM SIGOPS SATIS, CLUSTER, SSS, FAST, SYSTOR, etc. 

She was an invited scientist and speaker in many occasions: Women in Data Science (WiDS) x Buenos Aires, MyDATA conference panelist, Distributed consensus with cellular automata and related research Wolfram conference, Ethereum Devcon Swarm Workshop, University of Houston seminars, Internet Archive events, IEICE Annual technical meeting at the University of Nagoya, ETH Zürich Systems group seminars, WySS Academy for Nature, etc. 

PC member and jury for: PETS ✦ ACM EuroSys ✦ ACM Conference on Computing and Communication Security (CCS) ✦ US-Israel Bilateral Scientific Agreement ✦ EU CHIST-ERA Call: Security and Privacy in Decentralized and Distributed Systems (SPiDDS) ✦ ACM EdgeSys ✦ Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for Common Good (DICG) ✦ CREDENCE Workshop Poster Chair ✦ EuroSys Shadow PC ✦ IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing ✦ ACM Transaction on Storage ✦ OPODIS ✦ IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC - SAC-4 DS Track ✦ IEEE Letters of Computer Science, etc.

She left her home country more than 15 years ago to develop her career further and gain international experience. Her research received financial support through fellowships from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) among others. 

She has a unique combination of academic qualifications and work experience to successfully elaborate grant proposals, conduct research in the area of decentralized and distributed systems, provide coaching and mentorship in science and technology, supervise students, and lead groups of engineers and researchers. 

During the 6-year program to achieve her Dipl. Eng. degree, she studied courses that embraced mathematics, logic, graph theory and other related topics that play an important role to understand all aspects of dependability: availability, reliability, safety, integrity and maintainability. Later, she further specialized in security, cryptography, and interdisciplinary information science (particularly with the technology of ubiquitous computing and embedded computing, spatial information science, overlay networks and next-generation Internet services). 

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