Dr Erika Sanchez-Velazquez

Erika leads our Cisco Networking Academy and has expertise in networks and security. She has a special interest in recently developed technologies, include Software Defined Networks and the Internet of Things, with a focus on how they can improve security and how they affect the security of a network.

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Background

Erika has been an active academic and researcher for more than ten years, focusing primarily on computer networks and security. Her research career started with the creation of intrusion detection systems by analysing source code, then shifted into the definition of secure protocols for mobile and wireless communication, as well as intrusion detection techniques for mobile and wireless networks based in the Mobile-IP protocol. 

Erika's current areas of interest are software defined networks, and the definition of new protocols within the paradigm of a single controller within the network, and the security of the Internet of Things. She is currently a member of our Cyber Security and Networking Research Group, where she's in charge of supervising several undergraduate, MSc and PhD dissertations.

Spoken Languages

Spanish

Research interests

• Software Defined Networks: in this new paradigm the control plane (which decides how to handle traffic) separates from the data plane (which forwards traffic according to decisions that the control plane makes). Erika’s interest is to implement a Cisco® One PK-based test bed and analyse the performance and security of a variety of protocols.
• Internet of Things: with the statement that by 2015 more than 25 billion devices will be connected, it has become necessary to analyse if proposed networking and security solutions will be able to take the challenge. Erika’s interest is to design solutions based on IoT and analyse their security and performance in the connected world.
• Member of the Cyber Security and Networking Research Group at Anglia Ruskin.

Areas of research supervision

First supervisor, PhD Students:

• “Securing SDN communication between the control plane and data plane in Software Defined Networks”
• “Design of a new framework based on Software Defined Networks to support QoS on a sliced architecture”
• “Intelligent Control System development for electric powered wheelchairs”

Second supervisor, PhD Students:

• “Design and analysis of resource allocation and admission control of mobile ad hoc network”
• “Finding a botnet needle in a virtual haystack” – Completed
• “A Novel Security Architecture for Multimedia and VoIP Traffic on MANET Connectivity to Internet”
• “Inhibition of Standard Wireless Communication Protocols using tailored waveforms”

Convenor, PhD Students:

• “An Intelligent Mobile-Based Diagnosis System for Prominent Skin Diseases”
• “Enhancing digital security using hybrid AES, RSA and Quantum encryption algorithm”
• “Mobile Enabled Intelligent System for Viral Disease Detection”

Teaching

Module leader and tutor of:

• BEng (Hons) Computer Networks
• BSc (Hons) Cyber Security
• Data Security
• Networking Technologies
• Information Security
• Cyber Operations
• Network Routing and Switching Essentials
• Computer Security
• Advanced Network Technologies

Qualifications

• PGCE Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University, 2014.
• PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, 2004.
• MSc in Computer Science, Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, 1999.

Memberships, editorial boards

Visiting Professor Management Group, Royal Academy of Engineering

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

• Cyber Technologies – Tri – Service, Minister of Defence, 2019 – 2021.
• Cyber Security Workshop – BEST Growth Hub, 2020.
• Technological Platform for the self-management of health and diseases through mobile devices, Institutional Links – British Council Ref No. 249742, with Raul Aquino and Ahmed Sarhan. Completed in 2016.
• Issues of computer Security, ITESM―Rectoria Zona Centro. Group-research Grant C-CEM-04/07; with Raul Monroy and Luis Angel Trejo. Completed in 2013.
• Use of Statistical Models and Traffic Characterisation for Intrusion Detection, CONACyT - SEP Basic Research 105698; with Raul Monroy, and Luis A. Trejo. Completed in 2012.
• On the Timely Detection of Mimicry Attacks, Grant Holder, CONACyT Grant 47557; with Raul Monroy, Carlos Mex-Perera and Luis A. Trejo. Completed in 2010.
• Issues of Computer Security, ITESM―Estado de México. Group-research Grant CCEM- 0302-05; with Raul Monroy, Luis A Trejo and Roberto Gomez.

Selected recent publications

Adebowale, M., Lwin, K., Sanchez-Velazquez, E. and Hossain M.A., 2019. Intelligent Web-Phishing Detection and Protection Scheme using integrated Features of Images, Frames and Text. Journal of Expert Systems with Applications, [e-journal] 115, pp. 300 - 313.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.07.067.

Hazzaa F., Yousef S., Sanchez E. and Cirstea M., 2018. Lightweight and Low-Energy Encryption Scheme for Voice over Wireless Devices. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, [e-journal], pp. 2992 - 2997. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591451. 

Payne, P. and Sanchez, E., 2018. Comparison of Electric Wheelchair Control Systems in a Virtual Environment. Proceedings of the 10th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference.

Al-Haddad, R. and Sanchez, E., 2018. A Survey of Quality of Service (QoS) Protocols and Software-Defined Networks (SDN). Proceedings of the 2018 Computing Conference, [e-journal] 857, pp. 57 - 545. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01177-2_38.

Al-Haddad, R., Sanchez-Velazquez E. and Winckles, A., 2017. QoSVisor: QoS Framework for SDN. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Computing conference, [e-journal], pp. 1290 - 1296. https://doi.org/10.1109/SAI.2017.8252257.

Agborubere B. and Sanchez-Velazquez, E., 2017. OpenFlow Communications and TLS Security in Software-Defined Networks. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData), [e-journal], pp. 560 - 566. https://doi.org/10.1109/iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-SmartData.2017.88.

Graham, M., Winckles, A. and Sanchez, E., 2015. Practical Experiences of Building an IPFIX Based Open Source Botnet Detector. Journal on Cybercrime and Digital Investigations, [e-journal] 1(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.18464/cybin.v1i1.7. 

Graham, M., Winckles, A. and Sanchez, E., 2015. Botnet Detection within Cloud Service Provider Networks using Flow Protocols. Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, [e-journal], pp.1614 - 1619. https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2015.7281975. 

Media experience

BBC Radio Essex