Alexander Gamero-Garrido
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Labs and Groups
Research Interests
- Internet measurement
- Data localization
- Internet policy
- Cybersecurity & privacy
- Computer networks
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, University of California San Diego
- MS in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Electronics Engineer degree, U. Simon Bolivar — Venezuela
- Lund University — Sweden (thesis)
Pronouns
he/him/his
Biography
Alexander Gamero-Garrido is a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, mentored by David Choffnes. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer network measurements, cybersecurity and privacy, and technology policy.
Before joining Khoury College in 2021, Gamero-Garrido worked for the United Nations and Schlumberger, where he served as a positioning engineer on a vessel that sailed around Europe, the Middle East, and North America. In 2019, he worked on detecting data exfiltration requests as a security software engineering intern at Akamai. He has also volunteered for presidential campaigns in the US and Venezuela, and has visited almost 30 countries and half of US states.
Gamero-Garrido’s doctoral dissertation studied the exposure to observation and selective tampering of traffic flowing toward countries, as well as their organizations and critical sectors. He and his colleagues created metrics to analyze BGP routing announcements and traceroute-inferred AS paths. During his doctoral journey, he also received Microsoft Research’s Dissertation Grant and served on the board of University of California San Diego’s Graduate Women in Computing to advance diversity in the field.
At Northeastern, Gamero Garrido has been awarded the Future Faculty Fellowship, and is affiliated with the Mon(ItO)r Lab. In wider academia, he has published at PAM (winning Best Dataset Award at PAM2022), ACM CCS, ACM IMC, and ACM SIGCOMM (winning Best Paper at SIGCOMM), worked as an anonymous reviewer for refereed publications SIGCOMM CCR and Performance Evaluation, and served on the Technical Program Committee for IMC 2022 and PAM 2022.
Recent Publications
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Your Echos are Heard: Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Amazon Smart Speaker Ecosystem
Citation: Iqbal, U., Bahrami, P. N., Trimananda, R., Cui, H., Gamero-Garrido, A., Dubois, D., Choffnes, D., Markopoulou, A., Roesner, F., & Shafiq, Z. (2022). Your Echos are Heard: Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Amazon Smart Speaker Ecosystem. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2204.10920
