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Erika Leal

New Orleans, LA

Teaching

Tulane University

CMPS 1100 Introduction to Programming


Education

Tulane University

2023-Present

University of Texas at Arlington

2018-2022

Texas Wesleyan

Bachelors Degree Computer Science

Minor in Business Administration

2015-2018



About me

About me
Dedicated, passionate, creative for Computer Science
[Trustcom '23] Leveraging Hardware Performance Counters for Efficient Classification of Binary Packers

Erika Leal, Binin Cheng, TuQuynh Nguyen, Alfredo Gutierrez Garcia, Nathan Cabero, Jiang Ming

In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, Exter, Nov 1-3, 2023
[USENIX Security '23] On the Feasibility of Malware Unpacking via Hardware-assisted Loop Profiling

Binlin Cheng, Erika Leal, Haotian Zhang, Jiang Ming.

In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, August 09-11, 2023
[ICISSP '23] Assessing Risk in High Performance Computing Attacks

Erika Leal, Cimone Wright-Hamor, Joseph Manzano, Nick Multari, Kevin Barker, David Manz, Jiang Ming

In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Portugal, Feb 22, 2023
[USENIX Security '21] Obfuscation-Resilient Executable Payload Extraction From Packed Malware

Binlin Cheng, Jiang Ming, Erika Leal, Haoatian Zhang, Jianming Fu, Guojun Peng, Jean-Yves Marion

In Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, Virtual Event · August 11-13, 2021
Leveraging Hardware Performance Counters for Efficient Classification of Binary Packers
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (Trustcom 2023)
On the Feasibility of Malware Unpacking via Hardware-assisted Loop Profiling
In Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX 2023)
Assessing Risk in High Performance Computing Attacks
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2023)
The Graduate Experience - Guest Speaker
Student Computing Research Festival (SCRF)· 2021
Stranger Danger: Security in High Performance Computing
Student Computing Research Festival (SCRF)· 2020
Graduate Student Service Award
UTA Department of Computer Science and Engineering · Oct 2022
Diversity Grant
Usenix Security Symposium · August 2022
CRA-WP Cohort
CRA-WP Grad Workshop for Women · 2021
Contributions to the CSE department
UTA Department of Computer Science and Engineering · April 2020
1st Place in ISACA North Texas Case Competition
ISACA · Apr 2020
Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellow
U.S. Department of Education · Jan 2018
Technical Program Committee Member
International Workshop on Cyber Security in High Performance Computing at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (Supercomputing) · 2023
Session Chair
Information Systems Security and Privacy(ICISSP) · 2023
Diversity Chair
International Workshop on Cyber Security in High Performance Computing at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (Supercomputing) · 2022
External Reviewer
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security(CCS) · 2019-2020