Gabriela Ciocarlie
Stephen Bloom Associate Professor
Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
Department of Computer Science
Education
- PhD (2010) Columbia University (Computer Science)
- MS (2005) Columbia University (Computer Science)
- BE (2003) Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Computer Engineering)
Research
- Security for manufacturing systems, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT)
- Data analytics and anomaly detection
- Network- and host-level security mechanisms
- Trustworthy AI
- Data analytics and anomaly detection
- Network- and host-level security mechanisms
- Trustworthy AI
General Information
Gabriela F. Ciocarlie, Ph.D., is the Stephen Bloom Chair Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology and Acting Chief Technology Officer for CyManII. Her expertise is in anomaly detection, network- and application-level security, and cyber-physical systems security. Before Stevens, Gabriela was an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio, the Chief Product Officer at Elpha Secure, and a senior technical manager of SRI’s New York City research hub focused on cyberanalytics, which she established in 2016. Gabriela holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in computer science from Columbia University, and a B.Eng. in computer engineering from Polytechnic University of Bucharest.
Experience
2025 – present Stephen Bloom Chair Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology
2020 – present Acting Chief Technical Officer (2024-present) and Vice President for Securing Automation and Secure Manufacturing Architecture (2020-2024), The Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII), The University of
Texas at San Antonio
2021 – 2025 Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio
2020 – 2021 Chief Product Officer, Elpha Secure Inc.
2012 – 2020 Senior Technical Manager (2017-2020); Program Manager (2017); Senior
Computer Scientist (2015-2017); Computer Scientist (2012-2015); SRI International, Menlo Park, CA/New York, NY
2015 – 2015 Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, Columbia University
2020 – present Acting Chief Technical Officer (2024-present) and Vice President for Securing Automation and Secure Manufacturing Architecture (2020-2024), The Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII), The University of
Texas at San Antonio
2021 – 2025 Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio
2020 – 2021 Chief Product Officer, Elpha Secure Inc.
2012 – 2020 Senior Technical Manager (2017-2020); Program Manager (2017); Senior
Computer Scientist (2015-2017); Computer Scientist (2012-2015); SRI International, Menlo Park, CA/New York, NY
2015 – 2015 Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, Columbia University
Honors and Awards
Modern Maker Award, Manufacturing USA, 2025
IEEE Golden Core Award, 2025
Bronze Stevie Winner, Woman of the Year – Government or Non-Profit, 2020
Best Paper Award (Group Award) – IoTHound: Environment-agnostic Device Identification and Monitoring, International Conference on IoT, 2020
Best Paper Award (Group Award) – Alarm Prioritization and Diagnosis for Cellular Networks, 7th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI), 2015.
IEEE Golden Core Award, 2025
Bronze Stevie Winner, Woman of the Year – Government or Non-Profit, 2020
Best Paper Award (Group Award) – IoTHound: Environment-agnostic Device Identification and Monitoring, International Conference on IoT, 2020
Best Paper Award (Group Award) – Alarm Prioritization and Diagnosis for Cellular Networks, 7th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI), 2015.
Selected Publications
Sarah Roscoe, Logan Hellbusch, Chamath Gunawardena, Jitender S. Deogun, Witawas Srisa-An, Yi Qian, and Gabriela Ciocarlie, AVOID: Automated Void Detection in STL files, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing , 2025.
Bethanie Williams, Rima Awad, Clifton Mulkey, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Muhammad Ismail and Kyle Saleeby, Anomaly Detection in Smart Manufacturing: Comparative Approaches for Identifying Cyber Attacks Using Cyber Data in CNC Machines, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, 2025.
Mathew Jablonski, Kyle Everett, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Zoran Duric, Chris Hathhorn, Jeffrey Kimmell, Vladimir Orlyanchik, John Prevost, Gordon Robertson, Kyle Saleeby, Curtis Taylor and Duminda Wijesekera, An End-to-End Framework for Verifying and Validating Manufacturing Design Integrity, Critical Infrastructure Protection XVIII (Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2025).
Mohannad Alhanahnah, Shiqing Ma, Ashish Gehani, Gabriela F. Ciocarlie, Vinod Yegneswaran, Somesh Jha, Xiangyu Zhang, autoMPI: Automated Multiple Perspective Attack Investigation with Semantics Aware Execution Partitioning, Transactions on Software Engineering, 2023.
Loris Giulivi, Malhar Jere, Loris Rossi, Farinaz Koushanfar, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Briland Hitaj, Giacomo Boracchi, Adversarial Scratches: Deployable Attacks to CNN Classifiers, Pattern Recognition Journal, 2022.
Hassaan Irshad, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Ashish Gehani, Vinod Yegneswaran, Kyu Lee, Jignesh Patel, Somesh Jha, Yonghwi Kwon, Dongyan Xu, Xiangyu Zhang, TRACE: Enterprise-Wide Provenance Tracking for Real-Time APT Detection, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2021.
Matthew Jablonski, Bo Yu, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Paulo Costa, A Case Study in the Formal Modeling of Safe and Secure Manufacturing Automation, IEEE Special Issue on Formal Methods Applied to Cyber-Physical Systems, 2021.
Le Yu, Shiqing Ma, Zhuo Zhang, Guanhong Tao, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu, Vincent Urias, Han Wei Lin, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Ashish Gehani, ALchemist: Fusing Application and Audit Logs for Precise Attack Provenance without Instrumentation, 28th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2021.
Prashant Anantharaman, Liwei Song, Ioannis Agadakos, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Bogdan Copos, Ulf Lindqvist and Michael Locasto, IoTHound: Environment-agnostic Device Identification and Monitoring, International Conference on IoT, 2020 (Best Paper Award).
Sidi Mohamed Beillahi, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Michael Emmi, Constantin Enea, Behavioral Simulation for Smart Contracts, PLDI, 2020.
Bethanie Williams, Rima Awad, Clifton Mulkey, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Muhammad Ismail and Kyle Saleeby, Anomaly Detection in Smart Manufacturing: Comparative Approaches for Identifying Cyber Attacks Using Cyber Data in CNC Machines, IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, 2025.
Mathew Jablonski, Kyle Everett, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Zoran Duric, Chris Hathhorn, Jeffrey Kimmell, Vladimir Orlyanchik, John Prevost, Gordon Robertson, Kyle Saleeby, Curtis Taylor and Duminda Wijesekera, An End-to-End Framework for Verifying and Validating Manufacturing Design Integrity, Critical Infrastructure Protection XVIII (Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2025).
Mohannad Alhanahnah, Shiqing Ma, Ashish Gehani, Gabriela F. Ciocarlie, Vinod Yegneswaran, Somesh Jha, Xiangyu Zhang, autoMPI: Automated Multiple Perspective Attack Investigation with Semantics Aware Execution Partitioning, Transactions on Software Engineering, 2023.
Loris Giulivi, Malhar Jere, Loris Rossi, Farinaz Koushanfar, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Briland Hitaj, Giacomo Boracchi, Adversarial Scratches: Deployable Attacks to CNN Classifiers, Pattern Recognition Journal, 2022.
Hassaan Irshad, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Ashish Gehani, Vinod Yegneswaran, Kyu Lee, Jignesh Patel, Somesh Jha, Yonghwi Kwon, Dongyan Xu, Xiangyu Zhang, TRACE: Enterprise-Wide Provenance Tracking for Real-Time APT Detection, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2021.
Matthew Jablonski, Bo Yu, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Paulo Costa, A Case Study in the Formal Modeling of Safe and Secure Manufacturing Automation, IEEE Special Issue on Formal Methods Applied to Cyber-Physical Systems, 2021.
Le Yu, Shiqing Ma, Zhuo Zhang, Guanhong Tao, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu, Vincent Urias, Han Wei Lin, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Ashish Gehani, ALchemist: Fusing Application and Audit Logs for Precise Attack Provenance without Instrumentation, 28th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2021.
Prashant Anantharaman, Liwei Song, Ioannis Agadakos, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Bogdan Copos, Ulf Lindqvist and Michael Locasto, IoTHound: Environment-agnostic Device Identification and Monitoring, International Conference on IoT, 2020 (Best Paper Award).
Sidi Mohamed Beillahi, Gabriela Ciocarlie, Michael Emmi, Constantin Enea, Behavioral Simulation for Smart Contracts, PLDI, 2020.