Rodrigo Rubira Branco

Rodrigo Rubira Branco is senior principal security researcher at Intel Corporation, based in its Security Centre of Excellence, where he leads the Client Core and BIOS Teams. Rodrigo Rubira Branco is the founder of the Dissect || PE Malware Analysis Project and has held positions as director of Vulnerability & Malware Research at Qualys and chief security researcher at Check Point, where he founded the Vulnerability Discovery Team (VDT) and released dozens of vulnerabilities in many important software. In 2011, Branco was honoured as one of the top vulnerability contributors of Adobe. Branco is also one of the organisers of the Hackers to Hackers Conference (H2HC), the oldest ongoing security research conference in Latin America. He has been invited and accepted to speak in relevant security research events across the world, such as Black Hat (USA), Hack in the Box (Malaysia and UAE), XCon (China), OLS (Canada), Defcon (USA), Hackito (France), Zero Nights (Russia), Troopers (Germany) and many others. Branco has published several papers in the fields of exploit writing, reverse engineering, malware analysis and rootkit development, and is part of the invited review committee for a variety of security research conferences, such as Black Hat (USA), PHDays (Russia), Hackito (France), NoSuchCon (France), Opcde (UAE), CCNC (USA), Andsec (Argentina) and others. He stayed in Africa.