| Oct 18, 2024 |  Our paper ICSNet: A Hybrid-Interaction Honeynet for Industrial Control Systems [Preprint] won the Best Paper Award at the 6th Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (co-located with CCS) [Official Announcement] ! |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Our paper By the Numbers: Towards Standard Evaluation Metrics for Programmable Logic Controllers’ Defenses [Preprint] won the Best Presentation Award at the 2nd International Workshop on Re-design Industrial Control Systems with Security (RICSS) (co-located with CCS) [Official Announcement] ! |
| Oct 2, 2024 | My dissertation research was accepted to the 1st Doctoral Symposium co-located with CCS . I am honored to have been selected for this prestigious award which includes a travel grant to present my work in Salt Lake City, UT. [Official Announcement]. |
| Sep 2, 2024 |  Our paper By the Numbers: Towards Standard Evaluation Metrics for Programmable Logic Controllers’ Defenses [Preprint] has been accepted to the 2nd International Workshop on Re-design Industrial Control Systems with Security (RICSS) (co-located with CCS)! |
| Aug 19, 2024 | I passed my qualifying exams, and I am now a Ph.D. candidate 🧙 I will be on the job market this 2024-2025 cycle! |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Our paper ICSNet: A Hybrid-Interaction Honeynet for Industrial Control Systems [Preprint] has been accepted to the 6th Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (co-located with CCS)! |
| Jul 23, 2024 | I was awarded the ISC2 Graduate Cybersecurity Scholarship by the Center for Cyber Safety and Education. I am honored to have been selected for this prestigious award [Official Announcement]. |
| Apr 5, 2024 |  I presented our satellite security  research at the 1st Internet of Space Things Workshop organized by the Space and Planetary Exploration Laboratory hosted by the University of Chile  Thank you for the appreciation! |
| Apr 4, 2024 | I won the  place! in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition held at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi [Photos]. I presented It’s a Trap! Securing Satellites Using Cyber Deception. |
| Feb 12, 2024 | Our paper SoK: Security of Programmable Logic Controllers [Preprint] has been accepted to the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium! I’m stoked  to publish this paper in collaboration with amazing researchers from CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security  and University of California, Santa Cruz  |
| Dec 4, 2023 |  I attended the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) in Austin, TX. I would not have been able to attend without the support from the Student Conferenceship. Thank you to the organizers! |
| Oct 20, 2023 | I attended the IEEE Secure Development Conference in Atlanta, GA. I had the chance to be a tourist in the Georgia Tech campus  [Photos]. I would not have been able to attend without the support from the Student Travel Grant  Thank you to the organizers! |
| Sep 13, 2023 | I was featured by my alma mater Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara  as a distinguished alumni [Article]. |
| May 5, 2023 | I completed a 3-month long internship at CISPA in Saarbrücken, Germany working on satellite security research It was an incredible experience working with my advisors Ali Abbasi, Thorsten Holz, and all the talented people at CISPA. I was also featured on their Twitter account  [Tweet]. |
| Apr 26, 2023 | I presented my satellite security research at CySat in beatiful Paris, France  [Photo]. |
| Mar 8, 2023 | I visited the Ruhr University Bochum and had the opportunity to meet new friends and have a German style burger  [Photo]. |
| Feb 9, 2023 | I visited the Technical University of Berlin Institute of Space Technology  [Photo]. I also got the chance to try an authentic Berlin Döner Kebab [Photo]. |
| Oct 12, 2022 | I attended the RELLIS UAS conference in College Station, TX and had the privilege of meeting Dr. Robin Murphy. |
| Oct 7, 2022 | I presented my poster “Exploiting and Securing Programmable Logic Controllers” at the 2022 Great Minds in STEM Conference in beautiful Pasadena, CA [Photo]. I was also featured in one of their ads [PDF]. |
| Aug 1, 2022 | I had a blast as a visiting student researcher at the Cy-Phy Security Lab at beatiful UC Santa Cruz. I am humbled to have worked on CPS research with Dr. Álvaro Cárdenas and his amazing team. I am grateful for their hospitality. |
| May 24, 2022 | I had an amazing time attending the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy  in-person in San Francisco. Even more after two years of online only conferences. I enjoyed catching up with old friends as well. I would not have been able to attend without the support from the Student Travel Grant Thank you to the organizers. |
| Apr 7, 2022 | I’m really happy to receive the  place in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition held by the TAMUCC Graduate College. I presented “Exploiting and Securing Programmable Logic Controllers”. |
| Mar 18, 2022 | I had the pleasure of visiting Universidad de la Sierra Juárez in as a guest speaker and presented Ciberseguridad: Habilidades y Oportunidades . Thank you for the appreciation! |
| Mar 4, 2022 | I had a blast attending the 17th Texas A&M University System Pathways Student Research Symposium held in the College Station campus. I am also proud to have advanced to the Lightning Talks Finals |
| Nov 19, 2021 |  I really enjoyed virtually attending ACM CCS this year. I think this year’s organizers did a fantastic job. I particularly liked the VOD presentations with both short and long versions available. |
| Nov 14, 2021 | I participated in the iMentor Workshop 2021 as a student mentee and had the pleasure of talking with the legendary Dr. Radia Perlman. I also had the privilege of virtually meeting with renowned Dr. Álvaro Cárdenas who was my mentor during the workshop.  |
| Oct 29, 2021 | I virtually attended the 2021 NDISTEM Conference! |
| Oct 22, 2021 | I virtually attended the 2021 Great Minds in STEM Conference and had a blast networking with the amazing Hispanic STEM community!  Thank you for awarding us place in the Research Poster Competition, Graduate Computing Cathegory |