Ciprian Oprișa Ciprian Oprișa is a team lead in the Antimalware Lab at Bitdefender, where he performs reverse engineering on malicious applications and develops new technologies for heuristic malware detection and for fighting network-based threats. He recently obtained his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, where he proposed new solutions to fight security threats, based on machine learning techniques. He has been working in the security industry for more than six years.