Hi, I'm Paola Medrano

Paola Medrano

Trustworthy
Systems

Building secure and understandable technologies that help people make safer decisions online.

MSc candidate in Cybersecurity, Universidad de Alcalá

Trustworthy Systems
Cybersecurity
Trustworthy AI
Human-Centered Security
Digital Trust
Fraud Detection
Explainable AI
Security Operations
Threat Detection
Digital Resilience
Online Safety
AI for Security
Security & Society
Privacy

What I do?

  • Threat Research & Analysis
    • Trustworthy AI & human-centered security
    • Threat detection & malware analysis
    • Cyber resilience & digital trust
  • Security Engineering
    • Security operations & threat monitoring
    • Incident investigation & response
    • Threat hunting, EDR & malware analysis
  • Education & Outreach
    • Security YouTube content (@pwn3dbypao)
    • Technical talks & workshops
    • Security awareness for non-specialists

Research

Investigación

NLP · LLM pipeline
In Progress Work in Progress Jun 2026

Multimodal Detection of Digital Fraud in Spanish with Citizen-Oriented Conversational Explainability

93.4% Accuracy
0.98 AUC-ROC
14,750 Messages corpus
72% External val.

Master's thesis addressing phishing & smishing detection in Spanish-language text messages and URLs. Combines a lightweight TF-IDF classifier, a rule-based URL analysis module (17 features), and an LLM-powered conversational explainability layer — designed to work on partial inputs and generate citizen-readable risk explanations.

M.Sc. Cybersecurity · Universidad de Alcalá · 2026 Read paper
EDR · Live scan
Thesis Jul 2024

Cyber Threat Analysis Using EDR Technology in Bolivian SMEs

234 Malware detected
60.94% Trojans
1.5/4 NIST CSF score
801% ROI

Deployed Sangfor Endpoint Secure on 2 real companies in Cochabamba over 2 months. Identified 234 malware instances, 2 APT-level indicators, and trojans as the dominant threat vector (60.94%), primarily introduced through illegal software activators.

B.Sc. Network & Telecommunications Engineering · UPDS · 2024 Read paper

Talks

Presentations

Selected talks and workshops.

El Arte de la Ciberinteligencia

Keynote

Conferencia de Seguridad · 2025

Explorando técnicas avanzadas de inteligencia en ciberseguridad y análisis de amenazas.

Open in Drive

¿Tu equipo ya fue hackeado y no lo sabes?

Workshop

Taller de Conciencia en Seguridad · 2024

Indicadores de compromiso y técnicas de detección de brechas silenciosas en tu organización.

Open in Drive
UPCOMING

Nawi

Detecta estafas digitales con ML explainable

Nawi analiza URLs, mensajes y patrones de interacción para detectar intentos de fraude y ofrece explicaciones y pasos de mitigación.

Detección en tiempo real de URLs y mensajes sospechosos
Alertas explicables con factores de riesgo visibles
Integración sencilla vía API o extensión de browser
MLExplainabilityPrivacy-firstAPI
Nawi app screenshot

Content

YouTube

More videos on @pwn3dbypao

Let's talk

Contact

Have a question, a talk proposal or a collaboration in mind? Feel free to reach out.

Location: Madrid, Spain