Lena Pons
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Software Engineering Institute
Lena Pons is a machine learning research scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. Pons is a computational linguist and data scientist working in cybersecurity research. Prior to her experience at SEI, Pons worked at the National Institutes of Health building prototype analytics for ontology curation, document classification, and knowledge discovery. Her work centers on building information extraction approaches for jargon-heavy language, particularly including ambiguous abbreviations and domain-specific usage.
Education
2015 M.S. in Computer Science, Loyola College in Maryland
2005 B.S. in Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Affiliations
Research Interests
- AI and ML for security
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- data security and privacy
- Measurement and analysis
- ML and AI
- network security
- privacy
- privacy policy and regulation
- risk analysis and management
- security of AI and ML
- security policy and regulation
- software security
- systems security
- threat analysis and modeling
- threat intelligence
- usable privacy and security