Luis Javier García Villalba

Biography

Luis Javier García Villalba is a Telecommunication Engineer (1993) from the University of Málaga, Master in Telematics Engineering (1996) and PhD in Computer Science (1999) from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1999). In 2000 he was Visiting Scholar at COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography, Faculty of Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) and in 2001 and 2002 he was Visiting Scientist at IBM Research Division (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California, USA). He is currently a Ph.D. in the Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence of the Faculty of Computer Science of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and Director of the Analysis, Security and Systems Group (GASS), Research Group 910623 of the UCM. His professional experience includes research projects with Hitachi, IBM, Nokia or Safelayer Secure Communications. Its research interests fall into two main lines: a) cryptography, coding, information security and its applications and b) ad hoc mobile networks, sensor networks, 4G networks and SDN networks.

Research Interest

" Cryptography, coding, information security and its applications. This includes from the design, evaluation and implementation of algorithms and protocols to the development of security architectures for information and communication systems. Areas of application are security, identity management and anonymous communication, as well as trusted platforms. Relatively recent research topics are ad hoc networks, sensor networks, 4G networks and SDN networks."