RESEARCH

Research Projects

Ongoing Projects

INTEGRATOR (analyzINg cybersecuriTy bEhavior throuGh Robust federAted mulTimOdal leaRning).
- Funding body: Spanish Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación).
- Call: Consolidación Investigadora 2023.
- Duration: 01/04/2024 - 30/06/2026.
- Budget: € 330.000,88
- Role: Principal Investigator
REMINDER (pRivacy-prEserving Machine LearnIng through secure managemeNt of Data’s lifecyclE in distRibuted systems)
- Funding body: Spanish Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación).
- Call: CHISTERA IV Cofund 2022.
- Duration: 01/03/2024 - 28/02/2027.
- Budget: € 1.048.526,00
- Role: Researcher
GLADIATOR (usinG Large lAnguage moDels for prIvacy aware Analysis of cybersecuriTy information).
- Funding body: BBVA Foundation.
- Call: Becas Leonardo a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales 2023.
- Duration: 29/09/2023 - 28/03/2025.
- Budget: € 39.978,75
- Role: Principal Investigator
INCENTIVE (contINuous deCentralized lEarNing of ioT devIces' behaVioural profilEs).
- Funding body: European Commission.
- Call: HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01.
- Duration: 01/03/2023 - 28/2/2025.
- Budget: € 181.152,96.
- Role: Marie Curie Fellow and Principal Investigator

Past Projects

OLYMPUS (Oblivious identity management for private and user-friendly services).
- Funding body: European Commission
- Call: H2020-DS-SC7-2017.
- Duration: 01/09/2018 - 30/11/2021.
- Budget: € 3.147.837,50.
- Role: Researcher
SerIoT (Secure and Safe Internet of Things).
- Funding body: European Commission.
- Call for proposals: H2020-IOT-2017.
- Duration: 01/01/2018 - 30/04/2021
- Budget: € 4.999.083,75
- Role: Principal Investigator
SOCIOTAL.
- Funding body: European Commission
- Call for proposals: FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013
- Duration: 01/09/2013 - 30/09/2016.
- Budget: € 3.687.350
- Role: Researcher
SMARTIE (Secure and sMArter ciTIes data management)
- Funding body: European Commission.
- Call for proposals: FP7-SMARTCITIES-2013.
- Duration: 01/09/2013 - 31/12/2016.
- Budget: € 5.037.399.
- Role: Researcher

Research community services

Chair and Technical Program Committee (TPC)

International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2024 Conference (NETWORKING 2024) (Tutorial chair)
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023
IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN) 2023
IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (Comnetsat) 2023
Global IoT Summit (GIoTS) 2022
4th IEEE Middle East & North Africa COMMunications Conference (MENACOMM) 2022
IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking
6th International Conference on Informatics and Computational Sciences (ICICoS)
IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Computational Intelligence (CyberneticsCom) 2022
International Conference on Connected Systems & Intelligence (CSI) 2022
IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (Comnetsat) 2022
Ubiquitous Networking International Symposium, UNet 2021
IEEE 5G World Forum (5G-WF) 2021
IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN) 2021
IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Geoscience, Electronics and Remote Sensing Technology (AGERS) 2021
IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (Comnetsat) 2021
European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2021
IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (Comnetsat) 2020
IEEE 6th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) 2020
Global IoT Summit (GIoTS) 2020
European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2020
European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2019
Global IoT Summit (GIoTS) 2019. Co-chair of the Workshop on Internet of Things Security and Privacy (WISP)
Connected Smart Cities (CSC) 2019
IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (Comnetsat) 2019
IEEE 5th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) 2019
IEEE 5G World Forum (5G-WF) 2019
IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (Comnetsat) 2018
Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems 4th International Symposium SIRS 2018
Ubiquitous Networking 4th International Symposium, UNet 2018
IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things 2018
IEEE 5G World Forum 2018
Connected Smart Cities 2018 (CSC 2018)
ICT, Society, and Human Beings 2017
GloTS 2017 Global Internet of Things Summit
Ubiquitous Networking Third International Symposium, UNet 2017
ICT, Society, and Human Beings 2016
2015 International Conference on Recent Advances in Internet of Things (RioT) 2015
Connected Smart Cities 2015 (CSC 2015)
Third Cyber Security and Privacy EU Forum, CSP Forum 2014

Editorship

Guest editor of the special issue “Security and Data Protection during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond” at IEEE IT Professional
Member of the editorial board of Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications

R&D Projects Expert Evaluator

French National Research Agency (ANR) link
Agencia Estatal de Investigación Spain
Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia
European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) link

Member of PhD committee

Ignacio Rodríguez Rodríguez. Managing Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus with IoT Devices and Machine Learning Techniques. Date: 14/02/2020
Dan García Carrillo. A Coap-based bootstrapping service for large-scale Internet-of-Things networks. Date: 19/12/2018

Research Stays

03/2024 – 04/2024. Telefonica Innovación Digital. Barcelona (Spain)
06/2023 – 07/2023. Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS). University of Kent (UK)
05/2015 – 07/2015. Insituto de Telecomunicações. Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal)

Dissemination and outreach activities

2023. El País newspaper link
2023. Onda Regional de Murcia radio link
2023. La Verdad newsspaper link

Open Source Software projects

Sociotal Attribute Authority link
Sociotal Bubbles Handler App link
Sociotal Capability Manager link
Sociotal Capability User App link
Sociotal IdM Android App link
Sociotal IdM Server link
KeyrockIdMClient link