Rebecca Gelles is a Data Scientist at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Previously, she spent almost seven years at the National Security Agency, where she graduated from the Director’s Summer Program (DSP) and the Cryptanalytic Computer Network Operations Development Program (C2DP) and worked on topics ranging from cryptography to data science to natural language processing to high performance computing. Rebecca holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Linguistics from Carleton College and an M.S. in Computer Science from University of Maryland College Park, where her research focused on how the media influences users’ computer security postures and on new techniques for defending IoT devices from cyber attacks.
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