Other merits

  • Member of the Research Team for Innovation in Defense and Security (RISDEFSEG, RED2018‐102366‐T).
  • Prize to the best solution to the challenge "Malware Detection based on Dynamic Analysis". IV Jornadas Nacionales de Investigación en Ciberseguridad. S. Sebastián, 13-15 June 2018.
  • NESG Group (https://nesg.ugr.es). Prize "Asociación Ingenieros de Telecomunicación Andalucía" to the "Research and Innovation in Cybersecurity Applied to Network Management". XVI Noche de las Telecomunicaciones. COIT-AORM - AITA. Málaga, 22 June 2018.
  • Co-founder of the spin-off of the UGR Sinergia Ciberseguridad.
  • Editor ofThe Scientific World Journal, TSWJ (Q1; Impact factor: 1.730).
  • Editor of journal Security and Communication Networks, Wiley-Hindawi (Q2; Impact factor: 0.860)
  • Scientific reviewer of publications such IEEE Transactions on Signal Proccessing, Computers & Security, International Journal on Network Management, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Mobile Networks and Applications, Soft Computing, Sensors e IEEE Transations on Information Forensics and Security. IEEE Transations on Information Forensics and Security.
  • Project reviewer of ANEP and ACIE.
  • International project reviewer (e.g., Poland, Israel).
  • Director of the Master in Cybersecurity of the University of Granada.
  • Organizer of workshops such as UGR-W3C12, IRIS-CERT12, SERIA13, WASMAS15, SecAN15, JNIC16.
  • Committee member of conferences such as NATO-ASI, JITEL, CEDI, WICS, RECSI, LCN, SDTA, ICCCN, etc.
  • Member of the Spanish Technological Platform for Security and Trust (eSec), as well as of the Telematics Association (ATEL).
  • Member of the National Excellence Network in Research on Cybersecurity (RENIC).
  • Member of the Steering Commitee of JNIC.
  • Member of the scientific commitee of the Investigation Center on ICT (CITIC) of the UGR.
  • Director of a UGR research grant 2011.
  • Director of an FPU research grant 2010.
  • Director of an FPU research grant of the Junta de Andalucía 2009.
  • Best Doctoral Thesis in E-Commerce prize, awarded by Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación and La Caixa: "Low-Rate Denial of Service Attacks against Servers" (Director).
  • Director of a research grant in Telecommunications Engineering. Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Univ. Granada. July 2007-June 2008.
  • Participant of XVI Meeting of the IRIS-CERT Coordination Group, May 2005.
  • Head of the coordinated MEC research project LAMBDA-R; GIDRE.
  • Coordinator of two innovation projects in teaching of the UGR, both in e-learning ("E-tutor" project).
  • Tutor of several students for practice in enterprises.
  • Director of an FPU research grant 2002, which conducted to the Thesis entitled Anomaly-based Network Intrusion Detection through Protocol Modelling Techniques (September, 2004).
  • Director of a grant for innovation in teaching. Vicerrectorado de Planificación, Calidad y Evaluación Docente of the UGR, 2003.
  • Invited professor in the European project TEMPUS DIDAPRO, intensive course on Digital Networks in Telecommunications, University of Cluj-Napoca (Rumania), June 1996.
  • Collaboration in the textbook Introducción a la Informática. A. Prieto, A. LLoris, J. Carlos Torres. 2nd. Edition. McGraw-Hill. Madrid, 1995.
  • Organizer of the tri-annual meeting of the NATO ASI Institute on New Trends in Coding and Speech Recognition, held in Bubión (Granada) from June 27 to July 11, 1993.
  • Research scholar with IBM-España, 1990.
  • Research scholar with Fujitsu-España, 1989.