Vicente Alarcon-Aquino received his Ph.D. and DIC degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London, London, the U.K. in 2003. He is currently a Professor and former department head in the Department of Computing, Electronics, and Mechatronics at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico. In 2017, he spent a short-term research stay as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics at King's College London, UK. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, belongs to the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI Level I), and has been elected to the Mexican Academy of Sciences membership. 

Supervision and Publications: He has supervised several theses and taught courses at undergraduate and graduate levels in areas related to cyber security, communication networks, automotive networks, wavelet transforms, and multiresolution analysis. He has authored over 180 research articles in several refereed journals and conference proceedings, has written a book on MPLS networks, and has several citations to his research articles (Google Scholar).  

Editorship: He has served as Guest Editor for the Journal of Universal Computer Science. He is currently acting as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access Journal and as an Academic & Section Editor for PeerJ Computer Science. 

Research Interests: His current research interests include Cyber security, network monitoring, anomaly detection, wavelet analysis, and machine learning.