26/08/2025: Our paper titled "Cybersecurity Via Programmable Networks: Are We There Yet?" has been published in Journal of Network and Systems Management. This is a collaborative work with a fine set of colleagues who contributed and participated during the STRONG alliance: Prof: Juan Felipe Botero, Prof. Natalia Gaviria, Prof. Luis Fletscher, Prof. Eduardo Jacob, Prof. Adrián Lara, Prof. Jesús Pérez, Prof. Marco To. Congratulations to all of them.
11/07/2025: I have been elevated to the Senior Member grade within IEEE. A special acknowledge to my fellow colleagues prof. Diana Briceño, prof. José David Cely (who was my nominator), prof. Andrés Navarro, prof. Mónica Huerta and prof. José Leon Henao (who provided me the endorsements required for the elevation).
26/04/2025: I have been appointed as member of the executive committee of IEEE Colombia, being on charge of Professional and Technical Activities. Thanks to Leidy Ferro, chair of IEEE Colombia for considering me for this position.
23/10/2024: Our paper titled "GOOSE Secure: A Comprehensive Dataset for In-Depth Analysis of GOOSE Spoofing Attacks in Digital Substations" has been accepted for publication at Energies. Congratulations to Oscar Tobar, Omar Roa, Germán Rueda, Alexánder Leal, Juan Felipe Botero, John W. Branch and Germán Zapata, fellow co-authors of this work.
18/10/2024: Our paper titled: "Network traffic analysis through flows and packets with machine learning" has been accepted for publication at IEEE ANDESCON 2024. Congratulations to Cristina Lopez Ramirez, Santiago Rios Guiral, Jaime Alberto Vergara Tejada and Juan Felipe Botero, fellow co-authors of this work.
13/03/2024: Our paper titled: "Exploring Traffic Patterns Through Network Programmability: Introducing SDNFLow, a Comprehensive OpenFlow-Based Statistics Dataset for Attack Detection" has been accepted for publication at IEEE Access. Congratulations to Jorge Buzzio (Main Author, from INICTEL-UNI, Perú), Santiago Rios, Christian Garzón and Jaime Vergara (Co-authors, from GITALab in UdeA, Colombia), Juan Felipe Botero (from UdeA, Colombia), Jose Luis Quiroz (from INICTEL-UNI, Perú) and Jesus Pérez (from Tec. de Monterrey, Mexico)
13/03/2024: The website of IEEE LATINCOM 2024 is now online. You can visit it at: https://latincom2024.ieee-latincom.org/
20/02/2024: I have been appointed as TPC Chair of IEEE ColCom 2024. Thanks to Prof. César Viloria (Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia) for this invitation.
16/02/2024: The steering committee of IEEE Latincom has confirmed that the 2024 edition of the conference will be held in Medellin, Colombia, in November 6th, 7th and 8th. The general chairs of the conference will be Prof. Natalia Gaviria and Myself, and the TPC Co-chair will be Prof. Juan Felipe Botero.
01/01/2024: I have been appointed as Colombia Chair of the IEEE Communications Society - ComSoc chapter.
18/12/2023: The paper "P4 Cybersecurity solutoins: Taxonomy and Open Challenges", co-authored by Christian Garzon, Santiago Rios, Prof. Alex Leal and Prof. Juan Felipe Botero has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access. Congratulations to the fellow co-authors.
23/10/2023: The paper "GooseFlowMeter: A flow extractor for the analysis of GOOSE messages" co-authored by Santiago Ríos, Paulina Arregocés and Prof. Juan Felipe Botero has been accepted in ICICT 2024 . Congratulations to the fellow co-authors.
20/09/2023: The paper "GOOSEAttacker: Synthetic Attack Generation Tool for IEC61850" co-authored by Omar Roa, Prof. Juan Felipe Botero and Oscar Tobar has been accepted in IEEE LATINCOM 2023. Congratulations to the co-authors.
22/08/2023: I have been invited to participate as TPC Member of IEEE Latincom conference, to be held in Panama in November 2023.
18/08/2023: I have been invited to participate as TPC Member of IEEE Conference on Humanitarian technologies - IHTC, to be held in Cartagena, in November 2023. Thanks to Professor Andrés Navarro for this invitation.
26/07/2023: The tutorial "Introducction to Programmable Data Planes with P4" was successfully presented on IEEE COLCOM 2023 in Bogotá, Colombia. Thanks to Professor Natalia Gaviria for inviting me to participate as speaker on this conference.
8/05/2023: I have been invited to participate as TPC Member of the IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing - COLCOM 2023. Thanks to Professor Natalia Gaviria for this invitation.
8/05/2023: Our tutorial "Deploying traditional machine learning techniques in the data plane using P4" authored with my fellow colleagues Professors Juan Felipe Botero (Universidad de Antioquia) and Adrian Lara (Universidad de Costa Rica) was sucessfully presented in IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2023.
21/02/2023: I have been appointed as Full Time Professor at Universidad de Antioquia, starting since March 1st.
16/02/2023: The paper "Next-generation power substation communication networks: IEC 61850 meets programmable networks" written jointly with professors Natalia Gaviria, Juan Felipe Botero, Luis Alejandro Fletscher and Alexánder Leal has been accepted for the September/October issue of IEEE Power and Energy Magazine (SJR: Q1). Congratulations to the co-authors.
28/10/2022: The paper "An Adaptable and Agnostic Flow Scheduling Approach for Data Center Networks" written with Professors Juan Felipe Botero and John Willian Branch has been published in Journal of Networks and System Management. Congratulations to Professors Botero and Branch.
26/08/2022: I have been invited to participate as TPC Member and Tutorial Speaker at IEEE Andean Conference - ANDESCON 2022, to be held in Barranquilla, Colombia between November 16th and 19th, 2022. I will present there a tutorial on Programmable Data Planes leveraging P4.
18/07/2022: I finished my work relationship with Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana - UNAULA, in my condition of research lecturer. I would like to thank to the staff of this university by allowing me to collaborate with the institution during almost one and a half year. Best wishes to UNAULA and specially to the school of engineering.
14/03/2022: The paper "Network-based Intrusion Detection: A One-class Classification Approach" written with Paulina Arregocés, Jaime Vergara and Prof. Juan Felipe Botero, which was submitted to AnNet 2022 workshop (Co-located with IEEE/IM NOMS) has been accepted. Congratulations to Paulina, Jaime and Prof. Juan Felipe
28/01/2022: I have been appointed as TPC member of the The Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Security and Privacy for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems (IoT/CPSSecurity 2022). Thanks to Professor Qhinge Du for the invitation.
09/12/2021: Our project titled "Implantación de un laboratorio remoto virtualizado para la enseñanza de tópicos básicos y avanzados en redes de computadores”, submitted to the Call for Proposals at UNAULA was accepted to be executed during 2022. This project will be developed jointly with Professor Juan Felipe Botero in UDEA
03/11/2021: I have been appointed as TPC Co-chair of the 2022 AnNET workshop which will be held within IEEE NOMS 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. Thanks to Prof. Juan Felipe Botero for his invitation to this service.
28/10/2021: The master thesis "Un método para la identificación y prevención temprana de incidentes de ciberseguridad en dispositivos del Internet de las Cosas" by Jhon Alexánder Puerta, who was advised by me and Prof. John Branch in UNAL has received approved evaluation. Thanks to Prof. Juan Felipe Botero for his thorough review of this work, and congratulations to Jhon Alexánder.
01/10/2021: I have been appointed as Postdoctoral Research Fellow and member of the Scientific Board for the INTERACT Alliance, a research project executed by GITA Research Group (UDEA) and GIDIA and T&T Research Groups at UNAL.
02/06/2021: Our paper "Watching Smartly from the Bottom: Intrusion Detection revamped through Programmable Networks and Artificial Intelligence", written jointly with Professors Luciano Gaspary, Juan Felipe Botero and John Willian Branch has been submitted to arXiv
07/12/2020: I have been appointed as member of the evaluation committee of the Ph.D. Student Carlos Salázar (advised by Prof. John W. Branch) for his qualyfing exam at Universidad Nacional de Colombia