Maria Korolov writes about cyber security and artificial intelligence. Email story pitches to maria@korolov.com.
She has over 20 years of experience covering enterprise technology, mostly for IDG publications.
She also ran a business news bureau in China for five years for SourceMedia. She has also reported for the Chicago Tribune, Reuters, UPI, the Associated Press and The Hollywood Reporter.
She began focusing on technology in 2000, as a staff writer at Computerworld. She then went on to work as the technology columnist for Securities Industry News, then as a regular contributor to IDG's CSO magazine. She has been the editor of Hypergrid Business, an online publication covering virtual environments, since 2009.
In the 1990s, she was a war correspondent in the former Soviet Union and reported from a dozen war zones, including Chechnya and Afghanistan.
In addition to her writing work, she is the business manager of the China Speakers Bureau, which places China experts such as Tom Doctoroff in speaking events around the world. She is the co-author of the book A Changing China, and editor of Warren Liu's book China Key Success Factors.
She is also the founder of Women in Virtual Reality, a professional networking group.