María del Carmen Benavides Cuéllar is a Professor at the Department of Electrical, Systems and Automation Engineering within the College of Industrial, Informatics and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Leon. Her research focuses on Systems Engineering and Automation, with particular emphasis on Cybersecurity, IoT Networks, Ontology-Based Knowledge Representation, and Intelligent Distributed Systems. Doctorate in Control Engineering (University of Leon, 2009) Currently leads research in Cybersecurity and IoT Her recent publications span topics from Cybersecurity in IoT 5G networks to Medical AI applications for Parkinson's disease severity analysis. She has contributed significantly to LiDAR-based navigation systems and Social Network Analysis in healthcare contexts. Key research areas include: Ontology-based knowledge representation for control engineering Distributed intelligent systems and middleware development Biomedical applications of deep learning Social media analysis using NLP techniques She has supervised multiple research projects at the intersection of Computer Science and Healthcare, with notable works in nursing management and adolescent alcohol consumption studies. Her lab SECOMUCI focuses on cybersecurity and knowledge management in cyber-physical systems.








