PhD Student in Computer Science
I design connected sensing systems and keep them secure, so the data they capture about the physical world can be trusted.
What I work on
My work sits between hardware and data: building connected sensing systems, securing them, and turning what they measure into something reliable.
Defenses that make connected devices a harder, moving target. My Moving Target Defense strategy randomly shuffles the communication protocols an IoT node uses to reach its gateway, disrupting an attacker's reconnaissance without degrading the system's performance.
Low-cost IoT networks that measure the world around us. At Queen Mary University of London I design and deploy an air-quality monitoring network across the Mile End campus, from the sensor hardware to the edge processing and analysis of the data it produces.
The building blocks underneath: wireless testbeds for IoT, sensor networks for precision agriculture, and earlier hardware projects, from a body-powered phone charger to EEG-driven robotics.
How Accurate Are Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors? A 10-Month Study of Three-Tier Comparison with Three Calibration Methods and Cross-Site Transferability
Mercado-Velázquez, Escamilla-Ambrosio, Bodanese, Islam, Toosy, Mosler, Poslad · Sensors (MDPI)
Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost IoT Air-Quality Monitoring Network at QMUL Mile End Campus
Mercado-Velázquez, Poslad, Escamilla-Ambrosio · Smart Cities, ICSC-CITIES 2025 (Springer)
A Moving Target Defense Strategy for Internet of Things Cybersecurity
Mercado-Velázquez, Escamilla-Ambrosio, Ortiz-Rodríguez · IEEE Access
A Bluetooth Testbed for Internet of Things
Mercado-Velázquez, Escamilla-Ambrosio, Rodríguez-Mota, Ortiz-Rodríguez · ELECTRO 2020
Mesa de pruebas para el protocolo LoRa
Mercado-Velázquez, Escamilla-Ambrosio, Ortiz-Rodríguez, Rosales-Silva, Muñoz-Aguirre · SOMI XXXIV
Selected coverage
A record of the journalistic coverage and interviews about my work as a researcher and student. Every item links to its source, with a local archive copy where available.
YouTube
YouTube
A pura rodilla
El Economista
IPN crea dispositivo para recargar celular con movimiento corporal
Excelsior
Quedarse sin batería en el smartphone es cosa del pasado
El Financiero
IPN carga tu celular con movimientos del cuerpo
Digitall Post
Con éxito finalizó el quinto concurso de debate entre bachilleres
El Sol de Nayarit
IFE otorga premios a ganadores de concursos lúdicos
El Sol de Nayarit
Final del Quinto Concurso de Debate Entre Bachilleres: IEE
Periodismo Nayarita
Instituciones de educación superior deben promover capacidades de emprendimiento
Reflexión 24
Selecciones 146
Gaceta Politécnica · pp. 8-11
Gaceta 1628
Gaceta Politécnica · p. 16
G-sem1220
Gaceta Politécnica · p. 3
G-sem1277
Gaceta Politécnica · p. 10
Curriculum Vitae
Final-year PhD student in computer science specialising in IoT, cybersecurity and embedded systems, with a record of building and operating real networked systems. Download full CV (PDF)
PhD in Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London · IoT2US Lab · adv. Dr Stefan Poslad
MSc in Computer Engineering
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIC · Cum Laude
BEng in Communications & Electronics Engineering
Instituto Politécnico Nacional · ESIME Zacatenco
Teaching Fellow, Security Engineering
Queen Mary University of London (EECS)
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Demonstrator & Assistant Examiner
Queen Mary University of London
Electronic Engineering Expert & After-School Robotics Tutor
St Paul's Girls' School, London
Member, DevTech team (IT security auditing)
Tepic Municipal Government, Mexico
IoT Engineer (freelance)
Research Centre in Computing (CIC), IPN, Mexico
Visiting Lecturer, Internet of Things
Instituto Politécnico Nacional (ESIME), Mexico
Programming
C, C++, Python, JavaScript (Node.js)
Systems & DevOps
Linux server admin (CentOS, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu), Docker, OS & web-app hardening
Networking & IoT
Network & IoT architecture, sensor/actuator networks, NIST SP 800
Security
Penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, resilient network design
Embedded & hardware
Raspberry Pi, PIC microcontrollers, Arduino
Data & ML
Time-series pipelines, Random Forest, LightGBM, gradient boosting, neural nets, LSTMs
EECS Demonstrator of the Year Award
Queen Mary University of London
Best Master's Thesis of the Year
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Prize for best academic performance, graduate students
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
State Youth Award in Academic Excellence
Government of Nayarit, Mexico
Bernardo Quintana Arrioja Award (Academic Excellence)
Colegio Nacional de Educación Profesional Técnica
Ciencia en Acción: top-five international project
Algeciras, Spain
Atrévete a Emprender: winner
Mexico City Government with New Mexico State University
9th FETEPS: third international place
São Paulo, Brazil
8th FETEPS: second international place
São Paulo, Brazil
Spanish (native) · English (fluent, academic & professional)
