Dr. Paolina Centonze has been a professor in the Computer Science Department of Iona College since August 2011. Her areas of research include Language-based Security and Mobile Computing. At Iona College, she has been responsible for extending the Computer Science curricula into the field of Cyber Security. Before joining Iona College, Dr. Centonze was a researcher at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. She is a co-author of 13 scientific publications and a co-inventor of 10 US patents and 18 US patent applications. Dr. Centonze received her Ph.D. in Mathematics and M.S. degree in Computer Science from New York University, Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, and her B.S. degree in Computer Science from St. John’s University, Queens, New York.