Manuel Gil Perez

Manuel Gil Pérez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at the University of Murcia, Spain. As member of the Faculty of Informatics, he focuses on cybersecurity research areas including intrusion detection systems, trust management, privacy-preserving data sharing, and security operations in dynamic environments.

• PhD in Computer Science from University of Murcia (2015)
• Co-supervised by Dr. Gregorio Martínez Pérez and Dr. Antonio Skarmeta Gómez
• Active researcher with 70+ scientific publications

His research spans multiple cutting-edge domains:

• 5G/6G network security and trust frameworks
• Decentralized federated learning systems (Fedstellar platform)
• Knowledge graph applications for cyber threat intelligence
• Device behavior fingerprinting for IoT security
• Healthcare data protection through blockchain and SSI
• Botnet detection and mitigation strategies

Recent publications demonstrate trends in:

• Antifragile cybersecurity architectures
• Semantic inference for threat profiling
• Reputation systems in multi-stakeholder environments
• Edge computing security solutions
• Integration of AI/ML in network defense

As part of the Intelligent Systems and Telematics research group, he collaborates on major EU-funded projects including 5GBarcelona, 5GZORRO, and SoftFIRE. His work addresses critical challenges in network security, trust management, and decentralized learning systems through practical implementations and benchmarking frameworks like LwHBench.