Career Trajectory

Dr. Estrada has a unique combination of academic qualifications and work experience to successfully elaborate grant proposals, conduct research in the area of trustworthy reliable systems, supervise students and lead small groups. During the 6-year course 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 on security and cryptography. Her extensive non-academic experience in Argentina includes leading a critical national project to monitor fishing activities in the Argentina Economic Exclusive Zone. More than 10 year ago, she moved abroad to gain international experience and pursue an academic career. Her research in security and reliable topics received financial support through fellowships from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). She gained significant experience in the industry, military and government areas with participation in projects that span a wide variety of subjects, gaining experience in security, machine learning, storage systems, healthcare, geographical information systems, Internet traffic, oil and gas industry, and fisheries. Throughout her career she worked with large amounts of unstructured and structure data from diverse areas. To sum up, she developed a broad and diverse range of multidisciplinary skills.