Dr Cristina Cifuentes

Dr Cristina Cifuentes is Vice President of Oracle’s Software Assurance organization, leading a team of world-class security researchers and engineers whose passion lies in solving the big issues in Software Assurance. Cristina was the founding Director of Oracle Labs Australia in 2010, a team she led for close to 12 years. Cristina’s passion for tackling the big issues in the field of Program Analysis began with her doctoral work in binary decompilation at the Queensland University of Technology, which led to her being named the Mother of Decompilation for her contributions to this domain. In an interview with Richard Morris for Geek of the Week, Cristina talks about Parfait, Walkabout and her career journey in this field. Before she joined Oracle and Sun Microsystems, Cristina held academic posts at major Australian Universities, co-edited Going Digital, a landmark book on Cybersecurity, and served on the executive committees of ACM SIGPLAN and IEEE Reverse Engineering. Cristina continues to play an active role in the international programming language and software security communities. Where possible, she channels her interests into mentoring young programmers through the CoderDojo network and mentoring women in STEM.