Víctor Mayoral-Vilches

Victor Mayoral-Vilches is a robotics architect with a strong technical background in embedded systems. Victor has wide experience as an invited speaker in robotics forums and experience in cybersecurity and functional safety. Victor authored Akerbeltz ransomware for collaborative robots, aztarna robot footprinting tool, and the Robot Vulnerability Scoring System (RVSS) or the Robot Vulnerability Database (RVD), amongst other robot cybersecurity research products while working at Alias Robotics, a robot cybersecurity specialized firm. Victor has more than 25 scientific publications and 10 patents filed, mostly in the fields of secure and reconfigurable hardware and software for robots. Victor spent the last 10 years building robots and interacting with manufacturers and built, funded and led -- end-to-end -- 3 robotics startups designing robotic hardware and software architectures through adaptable FPGA-based System on Modules (SoMs), while in cooperation with top silicon vendors. Victor built partnerships with leading communication and robotic firms in security and robotics and served clients worldwide through projects from the US DARPA to the Japanese Mitsubishi, going through ABB. Victor was selected as one of the ten most innovative individuals under 35 in Spain by the MIT Technology Review in 2017 and held multiple national expert positions representing Spain in ISO and IEC committees for new standards in working groups for robotics and cybersecurity. Victor led a security team that uncovered hundreds of vulnerabilities in robots (with their corresponding CVE IDs) and sometimes writes @ https://cybersecurityrobotics.net/.

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