cyberai researcher / ai security / adversarial ml

Christian Camilo Urcuqui Lopez

I build secure AI and data-driven cybersecurity systems across threat detection, adversarial machine learning, LLM threat modelling, agentic AI security, responsible AI, and ethical hacking.

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Cybersecurity through data science

Mission

CyberAI researcher and security data scientist working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Focused on identifying vulnerabilities, attack surfaces, and resilient defenses for modern AI architectures.

Research Interests

Threat detection AI security Adversarial ML LLM threat modelling Agentic AI systems Influence operations Multi-agent MCP Secure learning Responsible AI

Books

  • Cybersecurity: An Approach Based on Data Science
  • Cybersecurity: Data Holds the Answer
  • Cybersecurity: Data, the Seeds of Chaos

Congresses

DEF CON Ekoparty DragonJARCON BSides PyCon Colombia InfoSec Jupyterthon Red Team Space Code Your Future

Awards

  • Best Talk - AI Resilience Hub, Ekoparty 2025
  • Speaker and trainer in 40+ workshops and conferences worldwide
  • GitHub achievements: Arctic Code Vault Contributor, Pull Shark, Starstruck, YOLO
  • Six consecutive TryHackMe Advent of Cyber challenges completed, 2020-2025

experience

Operational timeline

research

Selected publications

2016 · IEEE COLCOM

Machine learning classifiers for Android malware analysis

DOI
2016 · Sistemas & Telematica

Framework for malware analysis in Android

DOI
2015 · Sistemas y Telematica

SafeCandy: System for security, analysis and validation in Android

DOI
2017 · Sistemas & Telematica

Security control for website defacement

DOI
2017 · CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Machine Learning Classifiers to Detect Malicious Websites

Paper
2012 · Thesis

Mobile support system for evaluation and monitoring of Parkinson patients

ORCID

labs

Project portfolio

Android malware analysis visual
malware / ml

Android malware analysis

Static and dynamic analysis, permissions, malicious behavior, and ML classifiers.

Web security visual
web security

Web security and defacement control

Anomaly detection and security monitoring for public and private web infrastructure.

7Vit healthcare project visual
health data

Healthcare data systems

Mobile and data-oriented systems for patient monitoring and applied research.

Cybersecurity project visual
ai red teaming

GhostfaceFuzzer

Adversarial fuzzing toolkit for LLMs and image classifiers with jailbreak generation, perturbation pipelines, and evaluation metrics.

Phishing detection and RLHF feedback loop visual
phishing / rlhf

SpamShieldAI

AI-powered phishing detection with a Streamlit interface, feedback loop, and retraining workflow.

MCP and LangGraph multi-agent orchestration visual
mcp / langgraph

MCP Server / Agent Client

Multi-agent orchestration using MCP, LangGraph, secure toolchains, and controlled tool invocation.

ORION chatbot visual
training / assistant

ORION Chatbot

Matrix-themed AI assistant for cybersecurity training, threat-analysis workflows, and interactive learning.

Enterprise AI systems visual
enterprise ai

Industry AI systems

Recommendation systems, product insights, sales analytics, AI engines, and generative AI solutions across enterprise contexts.

Open cybersecurity notebooks and research code visual
open notebooks

Cybersecurity: Data, Seeds of Chaos

Open-source Python and Jupyter projects including OSINT chatbots, prompt hacking examples, and adversarial ransomware models.

community

Recommendations

"Christian is an outstanding Data Scientist. He combines deep technical expertise with rare soft skills and clearly communicates complex LLM and RAG solutions."

Antonio Lopez Crotte · Lead AI Engineer

"Working with Christian was such a joy. He was reliable, knowledgeable, positive, and always willing to jump into anything at a moment's notice."

Grace Schillewaert · AI Governance at Cisco

"He is a responsible, innovative, proactive professional with strong technical capacity in data science and machine learning, and great human warmth."

Karen Espinosa · Data Engineer

"Christian is passionate about Cybersecurity and Data Science, a scarce profile worldwide. I recommend him for his engagement, experience, and real-sector work."

Gerson David Quintero Rodriguez · exCISO

"Amazing mentor, researcher, human being, friend, and professional. He is passionate about cybersecurity and AI, always up to date and striving for excellence."

J. Steven Delgado V. · AI / Machine Learning / MLOps

"He led the cybersecurity research area, advised undergraduate and master's projects, and produced work published in IEEE conferences and indexed journals."

Andres Navarro Cadavid · Research Leader, Universidad Icesi

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