Who We Are: Gilda Garreton

Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories

Gilda Garreton is a researcher at Sun Microsystems Laboratories and her main research focuses on VLSI CAD algorithms. She received her B.A. and Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile (PUC) and her Ph.D. from the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). She joined Sun Microsystems Laboratories in 2004 and previously worked at universities and in the financial industry in Chile and Switzerland.

Gilda is a mentor at Sun and MentorNet and she co-founded in 2006 the community Latinas in Computing (LiC) whose main goal is to promote leadership and professional development among Latinas in the field.

During her free time, she enjoys family time and volunteer work. Apart from being part of technology committee at her son’s primary school, she is a member of Engineers Without Borders US, chapter Sun where she leads a project that will provide wireless access to a remote location in Panama.