Javier Lopez

NICS Lab

NICS Lab is an international leading Security research group headed by Javier Lopez, Full Professor of the Computer Science Department at University of Malaga. NICS is composed of 20 persons, including faculty members, post-docs researchers, top PhD students, and technical and management staff, being distributed on two different locations, the university premises at Andalusian Scientific Park and the Computer Science Department at Campus Teatinos. The research activities of the group started back in 1994, when Prof. Lopez published his first research work on electronic mail security in Local Area Networks, followed by others on probabilistic primality tests for public keys, and public-key directories security based on neural networks. Since then, NICS members have published over 200 publications, among them more than 40 journal publications with impact factor (ISI-ranked). Additionally, NICS members have participated in more than 40 security research projects at international and national level, funded by V, VI and VII European Frameworks Programmes as well as by different Ministries in Spain, Japan, Norway and Singapore. NICS Lab actively participates in international committees and Working Groups in the Security area, as well as in the organization of multiple international conferences and workshops.