I graduated with a Ph. D. (2011)  and a M.Sc. (2009) degrees in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida under supervision of Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Labrador. My undergraduate studies are in Systems Engineering from Universidad del Norte - Barranquilla (Colombia) in 2006. My undergraduate research mentors at UniNorte were Prof. Carlos Ardila-Hernandez and Prof. Dr. Yezid Donoso-Meisel.

My main research interests are:

• • • • • Privacy / Cybersecurity

        • Mobile/Ubiquitous Computing and Sensing

        • CS Education, in particular teacher education for middle/high school CS

My secondary research interests are:

• • • • • Machine Learning and its applications to Human-centric systems, privacy and cybersecurity

        • Multiobjective Optimization and its application to Computer Networks and Scheduling

My latest publications

• • • • 1. Alfredo J. Perez, Farham Siddiqui, Sherali Zeadally, Derek Lane,  "A Review of IoT Systems to Enable Independence for the Elderly and Disabled Individuals", Internet of Things (Elsevier), Vol. 21, April 2023,  100653 , 2023.

        2. Badis Hammi, Sherali Zeadally, Alfredo J. Perez, "Non-Fungible Tokens: A Review", IEEE Internet of Things Magazine Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2023, 2023

        3. Frederick Stock, Yesem Kurt Peker, Alfredo J. Perez,  Jarel Hearst, "Physical Visitor Access Control and Authentication Using Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Internet of Things",  Cryptography, Vol. 6, No. 4, 65, 2022.

        4. Mustafa Al Lail, Antonio Rosales, Hector Cardenas, Lars Hamann, Alfredo Perez, "Transformation of TOCL Temporal Properties into OCL", Proceedings of 21st International Workshop on OCL and Textual Modeling , Montreal, Canada, October 2022.

        5. Hector Cardenas, Ryan Zimmerman, Antonio Rosales Viesca, Mustafa Al Lail, Alfredo J. Perez, "Formal UML-based Modeling and Analysis for Securing Location-based IoT Applications",  Proceedings of 2022 IEEE MASS Workshops, Denver, CO, USA, October 2022 .

        6. Vincent Miller, Jesus R. Rijo Candelario, Lydia Ray, and Alfredo J. Perez. "Assessing Purpose-Extraction for Automated Corpora Annotations." In 2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), pp. 718-719. IEEE, 2022.

        7. Elijah Neundorfer, Alfredo J. Perez, "ClearCommPrivacy: communicating app privacy behavior in Android",  Proceedings of 2022 ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE'22), Mobile, AL, USA, 2022 . 

        8. Alfredo J. Perez, Sherali Zeadally ,  "Secure and Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing using Smart Contracts: Issues and Solutions", Computer Science Review,  Vol.23,  No, 43, 100450, 2022 .

        9. Yeṣem Kurt Peker, Gabriel Bello and Alfredo J. Perez, On the Security of Bluetooth Low Energy in Two Consumer Wearable Heart Rate Monitors/Sensing Devices, Sensors,  Vol 23, No. 3, 988, 2022.

        10. Anastasia Angelopoulou, Rania Hodhod, Alfredo J. Perez,  "Factors affecting student educational choices regarding OER material in Computer Science",   Journal of Computers in Education,  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-022-00219-x  ,  Jan. 2022.

• Also check our special issue with along with Prof. Dr. Ricardo Colomo-Palacios and Prof. Dr. Juan A. Gómez-Pulido as invited editors on Intelligent Health Services Based on Biomedical Smart Sensors  in  Applied Sciences (2019).

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Contact Info

Email: alfredoperez "at" unomaha.edu

Last updated:   March 14 / 2023