Vicente Alarcon-Aquino received his DIC and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (security and communication networks) from Imperial College London, London, UK, 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.
Academic Distinctions: Elected member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is recognized by the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI).
Supervision and Publications: He has supervised several theses and taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in cybersecurity, communication networks, automotive networks, wavelet transforms, and multiresolution analysis. He has authored over 180 research articles in several refereed journals and conference proceedings, alongside publishing a specialized textbook on MPLS networks. His work holds several citations on Google Scholar.
Editorial Positions: He has served as a Guest Editor for the Journal of Universal Computer Science and currently acts as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Access Journal, as well as an Academic & Section Editor for PeerJ Computer Science.
Research Interests: His current research interests include cybersecurity, network monitoring, anomaly detection, wavelet analysis, machine learning, and learning algorithms.