ITEFI · CSIC · Madrid

David Arroyo
Guardeño

Tenured Scientist &
Principal Investigator of GiCP

I lead the Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Research Group at the Spanish National Research Council. My work connects cryptography, privacy and information security.

Research in focus

Building trust in a digital world.

Research goals

A path through research

My trajectory

Current position
  1. 2018 — presentNow

    ITEFI · CSIC

    Tenured Scientist

    Cryptography, information security and privacy. Principal Investigator of GiCP.

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    As member of the Institute for Physical and Information Technologies “Leonardo Torres Quevedo” (ITEFI) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), my research is mainly devoted to inter- and multidisciplinary applications in the areas of cryptography, information security, information theory and coding, signal processing, and nonlinear dynamics.

  2. 2017 — 2018

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Lecturer

    Computer science teaching and research in information security and computational neuroscience.

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    Teaching in Computer Science and research in computational neuroscience and infor- mation security. More in detail, my research is aimed to design automatic procedures for event detection and characterization in the context of nonlinear time-varying neu- ronal dynamical systems. In addition, I have a second research line on the design and verification of privacy enhacing technologies.

  3. 2015 — 2017

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Interim Lecturer

    Privacy-enhancing technologies and event detection in neural dynamical systems.

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    Teaching in Computer Science and research in computational neuroscience and infor- mation security. More in detail, my research is aimed to design automatic procedures for event detection and characterization in the context of nonlinear time-varying neu- ronal dynamical systems. In addition, I have a second research line on the design and verification of privacy enhacing technologies.

  4. 2013 — 2015

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Assistant Professor

    Teaching and research at the intersection of computer science, neuroscience and security.

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    Teaching in Computer Science and research in computational neuroscience and infor- mation security. More in detail, my research is aimed to design automatic procedures for event detection and characterization in the context of nonlinear time-varying neu- ronal dynamical systems. In addition, I have a second research line on the design and verification of privacy enhacing technologies.

  5. 2011 — 2013

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Juan de la Cierva Fellow

    Postdoctoral research in computational neuroscience and information security.

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    Teaching in Computer Science and research in computational neuroscience and infor- mation security. More in detail, my research is aimed to design automatic procedures for event detection and characterization in the context of nonlinear time-varying neu- ronal dynamical systems. In addition, I have a second research line on the design and verification of privacy enhacing technologies.

  6. 2010 — 2011

    Institute of Acoustics · CSIC

    JAE-DOC Research Fellow

    Characterization and control of nonlinear ultrasound devices.

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    Characterization and control of nonlinear ultrasound devices.

  7. 2005 — 2009

    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid · CSIC

    Ph.D. in Physics of Complex Systems

    Analysis and design of encryption strategies based on chaotic dynamical systems.

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    Member of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Ph.D. in Physics of Complex Systems from the Polythecnic University of Madrid (UPM) in 2009 (thesis: Framework for the analysis and design of encryption strategies based on discrete-time chaotic dynamical systems), supervised by Dr. Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón and Dr. Gerardo Pastor Dégano.

  8. 2005

    AITEMIN

    Research Assistant

    Artificial vision, pattern recognition and software development.

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    Research and software development (C/C++) in artificial vision Artificial vision, pattern recognition, C, C++, Matrox Imaging Library (MIL)

  9. 2003 — 2005

    CNICE

    ICT in Education Scholarship

    E-learning applications, databases and web infrastructure.

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    Software development (Java, PHP) of e-learning applications. Administrator of mySQL/postgreSQL databases and Apache servers.

  10. 2001 — 2002

    Swansea University · United Kingdom

    Erasmus Student

    International research experience and completion of my master's dissertation.

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    From October 2001 to July 2002 I was Erasmus Student at the University of Swansea (Wales, U.K.). During that period I completed my M.S. final dissertation in the group of Prof. Jaafar Elmirghani.

  11. 1996 — 2002

    University of Seville

    M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering

    Foundations in telecommunications, computing and signal processing.

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  12. 1978

    Cabra · Córdoba, Spain

    Origins

    Born in Cabra, in southern Spain.

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