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</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Apr 27, 2026</th> <td> I am serving on the Program Committee of the <a href="https://adnd.work/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">5th Workshop on Active Defense and Deception (AD&D)</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Mar 31, 2026</th> <td> I am serving on the Program Committee of the <a href="https://risc.ieee-cs.org/2026/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">1st IEEE International Conference on Resilience and Integrated Security for Space and Critical Systems</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Feb 23, 2026</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":microphone:" alt=":microphone:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3a4.png" height="20" width="20"> I presented my paper <b>Orbital Escalation: Modeling Satellite Ransomware Attacks Using Game Theory</b> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/spacesec26-6.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Paper]</a> at <a href="https://spacesec.info/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener"> the SpaceSec Workshop </a> co-located with the <a href="https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2026/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium</a> in San Diego, CA. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Feb 1, 2026</th> <td> I am serving on the <a href="https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2026/organization/prog-committee.html" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Program Committee of ACM CCS 2026</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Dec 1, 2025</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":scroll:" alt=":scroll:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4dc.png" height="20" width="20"> Our paper <b>HoneySat: A Network-based Satellite Honeypot Framework</b> <a target="_blank" href="https://efrenlopez.org/assets/pdf/lopez2026honeysat.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Preprint]</a> has been accepted to the <a href="https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2026/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">2026 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium</a>! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Dec 1, 2025</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":scroll:" alt=":scroll:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4dc.png" height="20" width="20"> Our paper <b>Discovering Blind-Trust Vulnerabilities in PLC Binaries via State Machine Recovery</b> <a target="_blank" href="https://efrenlopez.org/assets/pdf/dong2026discovering.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Preprint]</a> has been accepted to the <a href="https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2026/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">2026 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium</a>! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Aug 18, 2025</th> <td> I joined the <a href="https://computerscience.nmsu.edu/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Computer Science department</a>
1 at <a href="https://nmsu.edu/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">New Mexico State University</a> as an Assistant Professor </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Jun 16, 2025</th> <td> ð§ I successfully defended my dissertation, and I am officially a Doctor of Philosophy! <a target="_self" href="https://efrenlopez.org/gallery/" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Photos]</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Mar 27, 2025</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":newspaper:" alt=":newspaper:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4f0.png" height="20" width="20"> Our <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/lopez-morales" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">ICS security research</a> was featured in a <a href="https://cacm.acm.org/news/security-research-gaps-leave-critical-infrastructure-open-to-cyberattack/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">news article titled <i>âSecurity Research Gaps Leave Critical Infrastructure Open to Cyberattackâ</i></a> published by <a href="https://cacm.acm.org/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Communications of the ACM</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Mar 8, 2025</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":airplane:" alt=":airplane:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2708.png" height="20" width="20"> I attended the amazing seminar <a href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/25101" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Guardians of the Galaxy: Protecting Space Systems from Cyber Threats <img class="emoji" title=":artificial_satellite:" alt=":artificial_satellite:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f6f0.png" height="20" width="20"></a> at <a href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/en" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Schloss Dagstuhl</a> in Germany <img class="emoji" title=":de:" alt=":de:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f1e9-1f1ea.png" height="20" width="20"> <a target="_self" href="https://efrenlopez.org/gallery/" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Photos]</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Feb 18, 2025</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> I was selected as one of the <a href="https://cps-vo.org/group/CPSRisingStarsWorkshop25" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">2025 Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Rising Stars</a> by the <a href="https://cps-vo.org/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization (Founded by NSF)</a>. I am honored to have been selected for this prestigious award with a 17% acceptance rate! <a target="_blank" href="https://cps-vo.org/group/CPSRisingStarsWorkshop25" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Official Announcement]</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Oct 18, 2024</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> Our paper <b>ICSNet: A Hybrid-Interaction Honeynet for Industrial Control Systems </b> <a target="_blank" href="https://efrenlopez.org/assets/pdf/salazar2024icsnet.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Preprint]</a> won the <b>Best Paper Award</b> at the <a href="https://cpsiotsec2024b.github.io/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">6th Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (co-located with CCS)</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://cpsiotsec2024b.github.io/" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Official Announcement]</a> ! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Oct 17, 2024</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> Our paper <b>By the Numbers: Towards Standard Evaluation Metrics for Programmable Logic Controllersâ Defenses </b> <a target="_blank" href="https://efrenlopez.org/assets/pdf/lopez2024numbers.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Preprint]</a> won the <b>Best Presentation Award</b> at the <a href="https://ricssworkshop.github.io/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">2nd International Workshop on Re-design Industrial Control Systems with Security (RICSS) (co-located with CCS)</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://ricssworkshop.github.io/program.html" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Official Announcement]</a> ! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Oct 2, 2024</th> <td>
1 <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> My dissertation research was accepted to the <a href="https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2024/call-for/call-for-doctoral-symposium.html" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">1st Doctoral Symposium co-located with CCS </a>. 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. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2024/program/doctoral-symposium.html" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Official Announcement]</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Sep 2, 2024</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":scroll:" alt=":scroll:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4dc.png" height="20" width="20"> Our paper <b>By the Numbers: Towards Standard Evaluation Metrics for Programmable Logic Controllersâ Defenses </b> <a target="_blank" href="https://efrenlopez.org/assets/pdf/lopez2024numbers.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Preprint]</a> has been accepted to the <a href="https://ricssworkshop.github.io/program.html" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">2nd International Workshop on Re-design Industrial Control Systems with Security (RICSS) (co-located with CCS)</a>! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Aug 19, 2024</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> I passed my qualifying exams, and I am now a Ph.D. candidate ð§ I will be on the job market this 2024-2025 cycle! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Aug 15, 2024</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":scroll:" alt=":scroll:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4dc.png" height="20" width="20"> Our paper <b>ICSNet: A Hybrid-Interaction Honeynet for Industrial Control Systems </b> <a target="_blank" href="https://efrenlopez.org/assets/pdf/salazar2024icsnet.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Preprint]</a> has been accepted to the <a href="https://cpsiotsec2024b.github.io/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">6th Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (co-located with CCS)</a>! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Jul 23, 2024</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> I was awarded the ISC2 Graduate Cybersecurity Scholarship by the <a href="https://www.iamcybersafe.org/s/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Center for Cyber Safety and Education</a>. I am honored to have been selected for this prestigious award <a target="_blank" href="https://www.iamcybersafe.org/s/2024-scholarship-recipients" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Official Announcement]</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Apr 5, 2024</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":microphone:" alt=":microphone:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3a4.png" height="20" width="20"> I presented our satellite security <img class="emoji" title=":artificial_satellite:" alt=":artificial_satellite:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f6f0.png" height="20" width="20"> research at the <a href="https://spel-uchile.github.io/iost-workshop/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">1st Internet of Space Things Workshop</a> organized by the <a href="https://spel.ing.uchile.cl/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Space and Planetary Exploration Laboratory</a> hosted by the <a href="https://uchile.cl/english" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">University of Chile</a> <img class="emoji" title=":chile:" alt=":chile:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f1e8-1f1f1.png" height="20" width="20"> Thank you for the <a target="_blank" href="/assets/pdf/certificado_asistencia_SPEL_1.pdf">appreciation</a>! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Apr 4, 2024</th> <td>
1 <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> I won the <img class="emoji" title=":2nd_place_medal:" alt=":2nd_place_medal:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f948.png" height="20" width="20"> place! in the <a href="https://threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">3 Minute Thesis Competition</a> held at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/TAMUCCGROW/status/1778431393434943563" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Photos]</a>. I presented <b>Itâs a Trap! Securing Satellites Using Cyber Deception.</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Feb 12, 2024</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":scroll:" alt=":scroll:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4dc.png" height="20" width="20"> Our paper <b>SoK: Security of Programmable Logic Controllers</b> <a target="_blank" href="https://efrenlopez.org/assets/pdf/lopez2024sok.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Preprint]</a> has been accepted to the <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">33rd USENIX Security Symposium</a>! Iâm stoked <img class="emoji" title=":sunglasses:" alt=":sunglasses:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f60e.png" height="20" width="20"> to publish this paper in collaboration with amazing researchers from CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security <img class="emoji" title=":de:" alt=":de:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f1e9-1f1ea.png" height="20" width="20"> and University of California, Santa Cruz <img class="emoji" title=":us:" alt=":us:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f1fa-1f1f8.png" height="20" width="20"> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Dec 4, 2023</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":airplane:" alt=":airplane:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2708.png" height="20" width="20"> I attended the <a href="https://www.acsac.org/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)</a> in Austin, TX. I would not have been able to attend without the support from the Student Conferenceship. Thank you to the organizers! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Oct 20, 2023</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":airplane:" alt=":airplane:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2708.png" height="20" width="20"> I attended the <a href="https://secdev.ieee.org/2023/home" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">IEEE Secure Development Conference</a> in Atlanta, GA. I had the chance to be a tourist in the Georgia Tech campus <img class="emoji" title=":honeybee:" alt=":honeybee:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f41d.png" height="20" width="20"> <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/efren_lopezm/status/1716198792641261822" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Photos]</a>. I would not have been able to attend without the support from the Student Travel Grant <img class="emoji" title=":moneybag:" alt=":moneybag:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4b0.png" height="20" width="20"> Thank you to the organizers! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Sep 13, 2023</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> I was featured by my alma mater <a href="https://www.uag.mx/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara</a> <img class="emoji" title=":mexico:" alt=":mexico:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f1f2-1f1fd.png" height="20" width="20"> as a distinguished alumni <a target="_blank" href="https://www.uag.mx/es/mediahub/efren-lopez-excelencia-de-la-uag-tabasco-para-el-mundo/2023-09" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Article]</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">May 5, 2023</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":airplane:" alt=":airplane:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2708.png" height="20" width="20"> I completed a 3-month long internship at <a href="https://cispa.de/en" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">CISPA</a> in Saarbrücken, Germany <img class="emoji" title=":de:" alt=":de:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f1e9-1f1ea.png" height="20" width="20"> working on satellite security research <img class="emoji" title=":artificial_satellite:" alt=":artificial_satellite:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f6f0.png" height="20" width="20"> It was an incredible experience working with my advisors <a target="_blank" href="https://ali-abbasi.info/" rel="external nofollow noopener">Ali Abbasi</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://cispa.de/en/people/c01thho" rel="external nofollow noopener">Thorsten Holz</a>, and all the talented people at CISPA. I was also featured on their Twitter account <img class="emoji" title=":blush:" alt=":blush:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f60a.png" height="20" width="20"> <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/CISPA/status/1632672504937316356" rel="external nofollow noopener">[Tweet]</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Apr 26, 2023</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":microphone:" alt=":microphone:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3a4.png" height="20" width="20"> I presented my satellite security research at <a href="https://cysat.eu/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">CySat</a> in beatiful Paris, France <img class="emoji" title=":fr:" alt=":fr:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f1eb-1f1f7.png" height="20" width="20">
1 <a target="_blank" href="/assets/img/news/cysat.jpeg">[Photo]</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Mar 8, 2023</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":airplane:" alt=":airplane:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2708.png" height="20" width="20"> I visited the <a href="https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Ruhr University Bochum</a> and had the opportunity to meet new friends and have a German style burger <img class="emoji" title=":hamburger:" alt=":hamburger:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f354.png" height="20" width="20"> <a target="_blank" href="/assets/img/news/bochum.jpeg">[Photo]</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Feb 9, 2023</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":airplane:" alt=":airplane:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2708.png" height="20" width="20"> I visited the <a href="https://www.tu.berlin/en/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Technical University of Berlin</a> Institute of Space Technology <img class="emoji" title=":satellite:" alt=":satellite:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4e1.png" height="20" width="20"> <a target="_blank" href="/assets/img/news/tuberlin.jpeg">[Photo]</a>. I also got the chance to try an authentic Berlin Döner Kebab <a target="_blank" href="/assets/img/news/doner.jpeg">[Photo]</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Oct 12, 2022</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":airplane:" alt=":airplane:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2708.png" height="20" width="20"> I attended the RELLIS UAS conference in College Station, TX and had the privilege of <a target="_blank" href="/assets/img/dr-robin-murphy.jpeg">meeting</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Murphy" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Dr. Robin Murphy</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Oct 7, 2022</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":microphone:" alt=":microphone:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3a4.png" height="20" width="20"> I presented my poster âExploiting and Securing Programmable Logic Controllersâ at the <a href="https://twitter.com/GreatMindsSTEM" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">2022 Great Minds in STEM Conference</a>
1 in beautiful Pasadena, CA <a target="_blank" href="/assets/img/gmis2022-poster.jpg">[Photo]</a>. I was also featured in one of their ads <a target="blank" href="https://greatmindsinstem.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-Conference-Brochure-V1-FINAL.pdf" rel="external nofollow noopener">[PDF]</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Aug 1, 2022</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":airplane:" alt=":airplane:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2708.png" height="20" width="20"> I had a blast as a visiting student researcher at the <a href="https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~alacarde/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Cy-Phy Security Lab</a> <img class="emoji" title=":artificial_satellite:" alt=":artificial_satellite:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f6f0.png" height="20" width="20"> at <a href="/assets/video/deer-family.m4v" target="blank">beatiful UC Santa Cruz</a>. I am humbled to have worked on CPS research with <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zbubH9oAAAAJ&hl=en" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Dr. Ãlvaro Cárdenas</a> and his amazing team. I am grateful for their hospitality. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">May 24, 2022</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":airplane:" alt=":airplane:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2708.png" height="20" width="20"> I had an amazing time attending the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy <img class="emoji" title=":horse:" alt=":horse:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f434.png" height="20" width="20"> in-person in San Francisco. Even more after two years of online only conferences. I enjoyed <a href="https://twitter.com/efren_lopezm/status/1529196237777276928" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">catching up</a> with old friends as well. I would not have been able to attend without the support from the Student Travel Grant <img class="emoji" title=":moneybag:" alt=":moneybag:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4b0.png" height="20" width="20"> Thank you to the organizers. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Apr 7, 2022</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> Iâm really happy to receive the <img class="emoji" title=":1st_place_medal:" alt=":1st_place_medal:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f947.png" height="20" width="20"> place in the <a href="https://threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">3 Minute Thesis Competition</a> held by the <a href="https://twitter.com/TAMUCCGROW/status/1524506500009447424" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">TAMUCC Graduate College</a>. I <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4VsS2T1RKk&t=2s" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">presented âExploiting and Securing Programmable Logic Controllersâ</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Mar 18, 2022</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":microphone:" alt=":microphone:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3a4.png" height="20" width="20"> I had the pleasure of visiting <a href="http://www.unsij.edu.mx/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Universidad de la Sierra Juárez</a> in <img class="emoji" title=":mexico:" alt=":mexico:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f1f2-1f1fd.png" height="20" width="20"> as a guest speaker and <a target="_blank" href="/assets/img/universidad-sierra-juarez.jpeg">presented</a> <q>Ciberseguridad: Habilidades y Oportunidades</q>. Thank you for the <a target="_blank" href="/assets/pdf/Reconocimiento_Efren.pdf">appreciation</a>! </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Mar 4, 2022</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":airplane:" alt=":airplane:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/2708.png" height="20" width="20"> I had a blast <a target="_blank" href="/assets/img/TAMUpathways2022.jpeg">attending</a> the <a href="https://grad.tamu.edu/knowledge-center/dates-and-deadlines/17th-annual-pathways-symposium" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">17th Texas A&M University System Pathways Student Research Symposium</a> held in the College Station campus. I am also proud to have advanced to the Lightning Talks Finals <img class="emoji" title=":sunglasses:" alt=":sunglasses:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f60e.png" height="20" width="20"> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Nov 19, 2021</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":computer:" alt=":computer:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4bb.png" height="20" width="20"> I really enjoyed virtually attending <a href="https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2021/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">ACM CCS</a> this year. I think this yearâs organizers did a fantastic job. I particularly liked the VOD presentations with both short and long versions available. </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Nov 14, 2021</th> <td>
1 <img class="emoji" title=":trophy:" alt=":trophy:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f3c6.png" height="20" width="20"> I participated in the <a href="https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/imentor/people/mentors-and-mentees?authuser=0" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">iMentor Workshop 2021</a> as a student mentee and had the pleasure of <a href="https://youtu.be/0lDhCrG9Kz0?t=479" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">talking with the legendary</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Dr. Radia Perlman</a>. I also had the privilege of virtually meeting with renowned <a href="https://twitter.com/Chibchachum/status/1456717574847172609" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Dr. Ãlvaro Cárdenas</a> who was my mentor during the workshop. <img class="emoji" title=":colombia:" alt=":colombia:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f1e8-1f1f4.png" height="20" width="20"><img class="emoji" title=":mexico:" alt=":mexico:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f1f2-1f1fd.png" height="20" width="20"> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Oct 29, 2021</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":computer:" alt=":computer:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4bb.png" height="20" width="20"> I virtually attended the <a href="https://twitter.com/sacnas" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">2021 NDISTEM Conference</a>! <img class="emoji" title=":computer:" alt=":computer:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4bb.png" height="20" width="20"> </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Oct 22, 2021</th> <td> <img class="emoji" title=":computer:" alt=":computer:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f4bb.png" height="20" width="20"> I virtually attended the <a href="https://twitter.com/GreatMindsSTEM" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">2021 Great Minds in STEM Conference</a> and had a blast networking with the amazing Hispanic STEM community! <img class="emoji" title=":grin:" alt=":grin:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f601.png" height="20" width="20"> Thank you for awarding us <img class="emoji" title=":1st_place_medal:" alt=":1st_place_medal:" src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f947.png" height="20" width="20"> place in the <a href="https://greatmindsinstem.org/2021/10/25/meet-the-winners-of-the-gmis-2021-research-poster-competition/" target="blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Research Poster Competition, Graduate Computing Cathegory</a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <footer class="fixed-bottom"> <div class="container mt-0"> © Copyright 2026 Efrén López-Morales. Powered by <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">Jekyll</a> with <a href="https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">al-folio</a> theme. Hosted by <a href="https://pages.github.com/" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow noopener">GitHub Pages</a>.
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