About me
Advisory Software Engineer
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)
Paolina Centonze, Ph.D. is an Advisory Software Engineer in the IBM WebAhead Development Group in Somers, New York. Before joining this group in June 2008, she was a Research Software Enginner at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, where she worked for three years while completing her Ph.D. degree. In IBM Research, she was a member of the Mathematical Sciences Department, where she worked on Supply Chain Management.
She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU), Brooklyn, New York in June 2008, with a thesis entitled An Algebra for Access Control. She earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic Institute of NYU in May 2005 with a thesis entitled Static Analysis for J2EE Role-Based Access Control Policy Validation. She received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from St. John's University, Queens, New York in May 2003.
Paolina's computer interests include Java, Web Services technology, Service Oriented Architectures, program analysis, and mobile-code security. Her math interests include graph and lattice theory, and data analytics. She is the author of six scientific publications and the inventor of seven patents. Her Master of Science research thesis was published in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 2006 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2006), Portland, ME, USA, July 2006, in the paper Role-Based Access Control Consistency Validation. Part of her Ph.D. thesis was published in the Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2007), Miami Beach, FL, December 2007, in the paper Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Automatic Identification of Precise Access-Control Policies.
Before joining IBM Research in May 2005, she was a Graduate Research Assistant at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, and worked on a Joint-Study Agreement with IBM Research. As part of that project, she used IBM’s T. J. Watson Library for Analysis (WALA) to statically validate Java, Enterprise Edition (EE) access-control policies.
Last updated 10 Sep 2008