Cristina is a malware researcher at Bitdefender’s Antimalware Labs. For the past 6 years, she has demonstrated strong expertise in reverse engineering, exploit analysis, threat analysis and automated systems. She has a graduate degree in Computer Science from the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University in Iasi and is now pursuing a PhD in Machine Learning theory in malware detection systems at "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University - Faculty of Computer Science.