Dr. Cristina Gacek
Senior Lecturer and Co-Deputy Head of Department, Department of Computer Science, City St George’s University of London
Brief Bio
Dr Cristina Gacek joined City St George’s, University of London, as a Senior Lecturer in Dependability and Trustworthiness of Socio-technical Systems in February 2010. She previously worked as a lecturer in the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University (UK) (2002-2010), with previous academic research experience as a researcher at Newcastle University (2001-2002), as a graduate research assistant to Prof. Barry Boehm at the University of Southern California (USA, 1993-1998), and to Prof. David Musser at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA, 1992). Cristina also has research experience from industrial environments, having led the Software Architectures Group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Germany (1998-2000) and at TRW (USA, 1995). Further industrial experiences were as a software engineer at TRW (USA, 1993), IBM (Brazil, 1988-1991), and two SMEs in Brazil (1987 and 1988).
Cristina obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USA, 1998) under the supervision of Prof. Barry Boehm; with a thesis about detecting architectural mismatches during software system composition. She has an MSc degree in Software Engineering from the University of Southern California (USA, 1995) and another in Computer Science from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA, 1992). Her BSc was in Mathematics with specialization in Informatics from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 1989).
Ambitions for the London ACM-W Chapter
Troughout her student and professional life, she has always been active in supporting and fostering the success of all individuals within her field. Hearing of success stories of those that succeed despite any prejudices and difficulties that might have come their way fills her with hope and pride, whether she had any involvement in it or not.
Her main ambition for the chapter is that we create an environment that provides a healthy space to support and enable the professional growth of all individuals, and in particular of women in STEM.