Dr. Joan Borrell
Biography
Dr. Joan Borrell received his PhD in Computer Science in 1996 from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he is an associate professor and former head of the Department of Information and Communications Engineering. Since 2001 he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of SCYTL Secure Electronic Voting. In 2009/10 he was a visiting researcher at the Security Group and the Mobile & Internet Systems Laboratory of University College Cork, Ireland. See http://deic.uab.cat/~joan/ for more details, e.g. how his Catalan name is pronounced in English or Chinese.
Research Interests
His current research interests are focused on opportunistic networking and its security. In the past, he had been working on cryptographic schemes for electronic voting and electronic gambling, and on mobility and security of software agents.