Marcelo Leal
Assistant Professor In Cyber Security, Technology, And Policy at The University of Texas at Dallas
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMarcelo Leal is an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity, Technology, and Policy at the University of Texas at Dallas who blends academic rigor with three decades of systems architecture experience to study how states and political actors craft cybersecurity strategy. His research sits at the intersection of international security, foreign policy, and emerging technologies, using survey experiments and computer-assisted text analysis to reveal how institutions respond to cyber threats. He has led and managed multiple research projects and survey implementations, published peer-reviewed work, and presented findings internationally, demonstrating strong empirical and methodological chops in R and Python. Prior roles range from IT and communications coordination to bank operations, giving him rare operational breadth alongside scholarly depth. Based in Dallas with a PhD from UMass Amherst, Marcelo pairs deep technical systems knowledge with policy insight to tackle real-world cyber governance problems.
14 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstMaster of Arts - MA, Political Science, Master of Arts - MA, Political Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
ascii10
dashboard9
command-line-interface9
azure-cli9
rest9
scale9
azure-media-services9
azure9
rest-api9
windows-subsystem-for-linux8
python8
azure-resource-manager7
resource-manager3
docker1
postgresql1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
msleal/msleal.github.com
Mar 2016 - Jun 2026
Contributions:30 pushes in 10 years 4 months
msleal/amspy
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Simple Python Library for the Azure Media Services REST API
Contributions:2 releases, 72 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
azure-media-servicespythonrestrest-api
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