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 (27)
command-line-interface10
ascii10
dashboard9
azure-cli9
scale9
api9
azure9
rest-api8
resource-manager8
cli8
azure-media-services8
command-line8
wsl28
rest8
rest-services8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
msleal/amspy
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 72 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
python-libraryapirest-servicespythonazure-media-services
msleal/asciivmssdashboard
Mar 2016 - May 2020
ASCii VM Scale Set Dashboard
Contributions:6 releases, 181 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 3 months
scaleasciidashboard
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