Sebastian Garcia

Sebastian Garcia is a malware researcher and security teacher with experience in applied machine learning on network traffic. He founded the Stratosphere Lab, aiming to do impactful security research to help others using machine learning. As Assistant Professor and researcher, he believes that free software and machine learning tools can help better protect users from abuse of our digital rights. He researches on machine learning for security, honeypots, malware traffic detection, social networks security detection, distributed scanning (dnmap), keystroke dynamics, fake news, Bluetooth analysis, privacy protection, intruder detection, and microphone detection with SDR (Salamandra). He taught in several Universities and worked on penetration testing for both corporations and governments. He talked in conferences such as BlackHat, Defcon Villages, Ekoparty, DeepSec, Hackitivy, Botconf, Hacklu, InBot, SecuritySessions, ECAI, CitizenLab, ArgenCon, Free Software Foundation Europe, VirusBulletin, BSides Vienna, HITB Singapore, CACIC, AAMAS, etc. He co-founded the MatesLab hackspace in Argentina and co-founded the Independent Fund for Women in Tech.

Veronica valeros

Veronica Valeros is a senior researcher and project leader at the Stratosphere Research Laboratory in the Czech Technical University in Prague. She has more than 9 years of experience in cyber security.

Veronica's research strongly focuses on helping people. She currently specializes in threat intelligence, malware traffic analysis, and data analysis. She has made her career in both industry and academia.

In her current position as a project leader, Veronica helps driving forward the research and development projects, improves processes, and drives the community engagement of the groups she works with. As a senior researcher, Veronica's is responsible for the research, development, and customer support at the Civilsphere project, dedicated to protecting civil society organizations and individuals at risk from targeted digital threats.

Veronica has presented her research at international conferences such as Black Hat, EkoParty, Botconf, Virus Bulletin, Deepsec, and others. She is the co-founder of the MatesLab hackerspace based in Argentina and co-founder of the Independent Fund for Women in Tech. She speaks English and Spanish.

Civilsphere offices are located in Prague, Czech Republic. Write us an email at civilsphere@aic.fel.cvut.cz.

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Czech Technical University in Prague,
Karlovo náměstí 13,
Praha, Czech Republic

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