Dr. Michaela Iorga

Dr. Michaela Iorga is a supervisory computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST/ITL). She serves as the Strategic Outreach Director for the Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) program, and as the senior security technical lead for cloud computing, chairing the NIST Cloud Security and Forensics Working Groups. She also has served as a Research Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and as Chair of the Northern Virginia Section of IEEE.

Dr. Iorga, a subject matter expert in cybersecurity, risk assessment, and information assurance, collaborates with industry, academia, and other government stakeholders on developing and disseminating high-level, vendor-neutral cybersecurity and forensics guidelines that meet national priorities and promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. She is the co-author of numerous scholarly publications on cloud computing security. Iorga holds two earned doctorates: a Ph.D. from Duke University’s  Pratt School of Engineering, North Carolina; and a Ph.D. from Lower Danube University’s Naval-Mechanical Institute, Romania.