VICTORIA STAVRIDOU-COLEMAN is a Vice President within the Corporate Technology Organization of Samsung Electronics. Victoria is in charge of the Computer Science Laboratory in San Jose, CA, which carries out research in next generation consumer electronics platforms. Victoria has more than 20 years of research experience in software engineering, safety and security critical systems and formal methods.
Prior to coming to Samsung, she was Director for Security Initiatives for Intel's Digital Enterprise Group (DEG) where she was responsible for defining the company’s roadmap in terms of security innovations and for translating this roadmap to strategic action and product delivery. In this role, Victoria led the formulation of Intel’s security strategy across all Intel’s product lines including the mobility, home and digital health segments.
She was previously the Director of the Trusted Platform Laboratory (TPL) within the Corporate Technology Group CTG). Prior to that she was previously the Director of the Trust and Manageability Laboratory in CTG, where she drove innovation across platform trust & manageability for Intel’s desktop, enterprise and mobile platforms.
Before coming to Intel, Dr Stavridou-Coleman was with SRI International. She joined SRI in 1998 to head up the dependable systems architecture program after 10 years as a tenured professor in the University of London. She became the founding Director of SRI’s System Design Laboratory (SDL) in the Information and Computing Sciences Division in 1999. In 2004, she founded the Cybersecurity Research Center on behalf of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Victoria started her career with research positions at UMIST and the University of Manchester following which she was appointed to her first tenured faculty position (Lecturer) in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway College, University of London in 1988. Her last tenured faculty position (Reader) was at Queen Mary College at the University of London. In 1994 she was honored with the IEE Charles Babbage Premium Award for her paper on Safety-Critical Systems, Formal Methods and Standards In 1996 she authored the first edition of Defstan 00-56 on Safety Requirements for Defence Systems, a landmark UK Defense Standard which regulates the processes employed by contractors for all British Ministry of Defense procurements.
Victoria holds a BSc in Electronic Computer Systems (Univ of Salford, UK), an MSc in Computer Aided Logic Design (Univ of Salford, UK) and a PhD in the Algebraic Specification and Verification of Digital Systems (Univ of Manchester, UK). She has authored more than 60 articles and books. She was a member of DoD’s Counter Intelligence Field Agency (CIFA) Architecture Advisory Board where she had special responsibility for information security. She served a 3-year term as a member of DARPA’s Information Science and Technology advisory group from 2004 to 2007. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Computer Engineering Department at Santa Clara University. She is also a member of the IET (and a Chartered Engineer), the ACM and the Army and Navy Club in Washington DC.
