Carrie Gates

Dr. Carrie Gates joined Bank of America in October 2018 as a Senior Vice President in Global Information Security. She has established a research program, working in partnership with universities to pursue longer term, higher risk research in the security space that has the potential to improve the bank’s security posture. Her current portfolio includes broad investigations into audio deep fakes, misinformation, smishing, and adversarial machine learning.

Prior to joining the bank, Carrie has worked at a start-up, for both Dell and CA Technologies as a Distinguished Engineer, and with CERT at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to starting her research career, she was the systems manager for the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University (Canada). She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and over 20 awarded patents in the computer and network security field.

Outside of work, Carrie enjoys riding horses and competing in the hunter/jumper divisions. She also enjoys traveling and photography.