Gabriela Ochoa is a Venezuelan British computer scientist and Professor at the University of Stirling.

[1] She moved to the United Kingdom for her graduate studies, where she joined the University of Sussex as a doctoral student.

[2] After graduating she returned to Venezuela, where she was made Associate Professor at the Simón Bolívar University.

In 2006 Ochoa once again left Venezuela, and moved to Paris to join the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation.

[4] She has worked on the computational design of medical treatments in an effort to minimise antibiotic resistance in Scotland.