Mikel Iturbe

I am Mikel Iturbe, Lecturer & Researcher at Mondragon Unibertsitatea, located at the heart of the Basque Country. My research interests include Network Security, Data Science applications and Industrial Control Systems. I am part of the Data Analysis and Cybersecurity team.

My main research lines are related to anomaly detection and security monitoring of Industrial Control Systems by leveraging data-driven methods, as well as embedded fuzzing. I am also interested in the field of data science, machine learning and system security in general.

I got my PhD concerning Industrial Network security at Mondragon University. I hold a MSc in ICT Security at at the Open University of Catalonia, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Rovira i Virgili University and I got my BSc in Computer Engineering at Mondragon University. Moreover, I have also carried out research work at the Fraunhofer IGD Institute for Graphics Research in Darmstadt, Germany, the University of Granada in Granada, Spain and the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

When I am not working, I enjoy reading, hiking, gardening, woodworking, and the occasional chess game.