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**José Luis Hernández Ramos**
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow
Department of Communications and Information Engineering (DIIC)
University of Murcia
**Office:** 1.37 (1st floor, Computer Science Faculty)
**Phone:** +34 868 88 8503
**E-mail address:** [[jluis.hernandez@um.es]]
====Short Biography====
José Luis Hernández-Ramos works as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Murcia (UMU) working on the topic of decentralized machine learning for cyberattack detection in Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. Before that, he worked as scientific officer at the European Commission, [[https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en|DG JRC]], where he was involved in some of the most prominent EU cybersecurity initiatives. He co-authored the [[https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC118089|JRC Cybersecurity Taxonomy]], which was adopted by the official [[https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/d2f56334-a0df-485b-8dc8-2c0039d31122|EU Vocabulary]] in 2021, and contributed to the definition, management, and support of the [[https://cybersecurity-atlas.ec.europa.eu/|EU Cybersecurity Atlas]]. He also worked in the coordination and evaluation of the pilot phase of the [[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021R0887|Regulation (EU) 2021/887]], as evaluator in the [[https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/european-blockchain-pre-commercial-procurement|European Blockchain Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP)]] on blockchain solutions for the [[https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/wikis/display/EBSI/Home|European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI)]], and as observer member of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) [[https://www.enisa.europa.eu/topics/market/ad-hoc-working-group-on-cybersecurity-market|Ad Hoc Working Group on EU Cybersecurity Market]]. He also contributed to several JRC technical reports on cybersecurity in intelligent transportation systems (ITS),and the [[https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/48878|SWD (2022) 40 final on EU strategic dependencies and capacities: second stage of in-depth reviews]]. Moreover, he contributed on the analysis of cybersecurity standards and the relationship with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and co-authored the joint report between JRC and ENISA [[https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/cyber-resilience-act-requirements-standards-mapping/@@download/fullReport|"Cyber Resilience Act Requirements Standards Mapping - Joint Research Centre & ENISA Joint Analysis"]].
He received the M.Sc. in 2012 and Ph.D ("cum laude" and "Best PhD Thesis Award") in 2016 from the University of Murcia (UMU), Spain, where he also worked as a researcher. During his degree studies, he also collaborated as a research assistant and worked as an intern at [[https://www.linkedin.com/company/agt-international/?originalSubdomain=de|AGT International]] in Darmstadt (Germany) in the IT security group. In 2015, he was a visiting researcher at [[https://www.it.pt/ITSites/Index/3|Instituto de Telecomunicaçoes]] in Aveiro (Portugal), in the [[https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/|Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS)]] at University of Kent (UK) in 2023, and in [[https://hub.telefonica.com/investigacion|Telefonica Research]] in 2024 . During his PhD studies, he also served as a teaching assistant in the Computer Engineering degree at UMU, and as co-advisor of several BSc, MSc and PhD thesis, including the thesis [[https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=289758|"Definition of a Methodology for the Security Evaluation of Internet of Things Devices"]], which received the award to the best doctoral thesis in cybersecurity from the [[https://renic.es/en|Spanish Network of Excellence on Cybersecurity Research (RENIC)]] in 2021. He co-authored several book chapters and more than 60 research papers in top IEEE/ACM journals. He also co-edited the book [[https://www.iospress.com/catalog/books/security-and-privacy-in-the-internet-of-things-challenges-and-solutions|"Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things: Challenges and Solutions"]]. He collaborated with more than 100 researchers from a plethora of research institutions, universities, companies, and public institutions around Europe. His research has been covered by different media, including “El País” newspaper, “La7” TV, and ORM radio.
In October 2024, his h-index was 22 according to [[https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56157393500|Scopus ]] (30 in [[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M-WTJQYAAAAJ&hl=en|Google Scholar]]) with 1965 citations (3514 in Google Scholar).
He participated in different FP7/H2020 research projects, such as [[https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/609112|SOCIOTAL]], [[https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/609062|SMARTIE]], [[https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/786725|OLYMPUS]], and [[https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/780139|SerIoT]] (JRC Principal Investigator), in which he has co-authored project deliverables and eight open software projects that are registered under intellectual property.
He has served as a scientific expert for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain)
the Science Fund (Republic of Serbia), and the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT). He was also selected by the Science and Technology Office of the Congress of Deputies in Spain as one of the experts for the report on cybersecurity as part of the creation process of the Oficina C. In addition, he served as TPC member/co-chair of several conferences, and guest editor in different journals. He has also contributed to reports from the Alliance for the Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) around standardization aspects in IoT. In 2022, he was also awarded a Ramón y Cajal fellowship (declined), and received the accreditation as Associate Professor (“Contratado Doctor”) by ANECA and R3 ("Established") researcher. Furthermore, in 2023, he was awarded a Leonardo grant funded by BBVA Foundation to study the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in cybersecurity [[https://www.redleonardo.es/beneficiario/jose-luis-hernandez-ramos/|link]] and a "Consolidación investigadora" grant funded by the Spanish Minister of Science and Innovation for the establishment of his research line on the AI-based analysis of the human factor in cybersecurity. He is member of several associations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), the IFIP TC 11 Working Group 12 - Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance, and the Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement NetworkPlus (SPRITE+) [[https://spritehub.org/|link]]. He is also a founding member of the IEEE TRUST-IoT Working Group [[https://iot.ieee.org/working-groups.html|link]]
==== Research interests ====
* Use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in cybersecurity
* Security and privacy of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
* Modelling human factors in cybersecurity
==== Appointments ====
* Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow. University of Murcia (Spain). Department of Information and Communication Engineering (DIIC).(03/2023 – Present)
* Scientific Project Officer. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC). Unit E3. Cyber and Digital Citizens’ Security and Unit T2. Cybersecurity and Digital Technologies. (02/2018 – 02/2023)
* Researcher. University of Murcia (Spain). Department of Information and Communication Engineering (DIIC). (02/2017 – 01/2018)
* Predoctoral Researcher. University of Murcia (Spain). Department of Information and Communication Engineering (DIIC). (02/2013 – 02/2017)
* Internship. AGT Group (R&D) GmbH. Darmstadt (Germany). (11/2011 – 09/2012)
==== Honors and awards ====
* 2024. **Consolidación Investigadora** 2023, Spanish Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación). Acceptance rate: 39.3%
* 2023. **Leonardo Grant** 2023, BBVA Foundation. Project: [[https://www.redleonardo.es/beneficiario/jose-luis-hernandez-ramos/|usinG Large lAnguage moDels for prIvacy-aware Analysis of cybersecuriTy infORmation (GLADIATOR)]]. Acceptance rate: 5.2%
* 2022. **Ramón y Cajal Fellowship** 2021 (declined), Spanish Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación). Acceptance rate: 16.1%
* 2022. **Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship** 2021. Project: [[https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101065524|
contINuous deCentralized lEarNing of ioT devIces' behaVioural profilEs (INCENTIVE)]] Acceptance rate: 13.6%
* 2021. Co-advisor of the PhD thesis "[[https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=289758|Definition of a methodology for the security evaluation of Internet of Things devices]]" awarded with the "Best PhD thesis award in cybersecurity" from the Spanish Network for Cybersecurity Research (RENIC)
* 2018. Best PhD Thesis Award, School of Computer Science of the University of Murcia
* 2016. “Cum laude” mention in the PhD
* 2011. Distinction (Honors) in the Computer Engineering Thesis
==== Memberships ====
* Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) [[https://www.ieee.org/|link]]
* Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [[https://www.acm.org/|link]]
* Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) [[https://www.mariecuriealumni.eu/|link]]
* European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) [[https://ellis.eu/members|link]]
* IFIP TC 11 Working Group 12 - Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance [[https://www.ifip11-12.org/|link]]
* Member and Expert Fellow of the Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement NetworkPlus (SPRITE+) [[https://spritehub.org/|link]]
* Founding member of the IEEE TRUST-IoT Working Group [[https://iot.ieee.org/working-groups.html|link]]