Her areas of research include language-based security and mobile computing. At Iona College, she has been responsible for extending the Computer Science curricula into the field of Cyber Security. Dr. Centonze is currently leading the effort for of the National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations (CAE-CO) accreditation for the Cyber Security programs at Iona College. Dr. Centonze before joining Iona College worked for for five years at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, as a software research engineer. In the Summer of 2015, Dr. Centonze started to teach at Fordham University as an Adjunct Professor. She teaches CISC 6800 (Malware Analytics) course for the Cyber Security program in the Computer and Information Science department.