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.
Cryptography
& privacy
Secure protocols, digital identity and privacy-enhancing technologies.
02 / STRENGTHENCyber
resilience
Trustworthy systems, open hardware and security for emerging technologies.
03 / UNDERSTANDInformation
integrity
Disinformation analysis, information quality and responsible digital environments.
A path through research
My trajectory
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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1996 — 2002
University of Seville
M.S. in Telecommunications Engineering
Foundations in telecommunications, computing and signal processing.
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1978
