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πŸ‘‹ Hello World, I'm Christian Urcuqui

AI Security Researcher β€’ Cybersecurity Data Scientist β€’ Speaker & Author

AI Security β€’ Agentic AI Security β€’ Adversarial ML β€’ LLM Security β€’ Secure AI Systems


⚑ Fast Facts

  • πŸ” Working at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and adversarial machine learning
  • πŸ§ͺ Researching AI agents, LLM security, MCP, prompt injection, and AI attack surfaces
  • 🎀 Speaker at DEF CON, Ekoparty, DragonJARCON, PyCon, BSides, and academic events
  • πŸ“š Author of three cybersecurity books, published by Editorial ICESI
  • πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« Lecturer and instructor in AI security, ethical hacking, and cybersecurity
  • 🌐 11+ years building AI, security, and data-driven systems

πŸ… Awards & Achievements


πŸš€ About Me

I am an AI security researcher and cybersecurity data scientist with over 11 years of experience building and analysing AI, security, and data-driven systems.

My current work focuses on AI Security, Agentic AI, Adversarial Machine Learning, LLM Security, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI Red Teaming, and secure AI architectures.

I also create hands-on cybersecurity training, research prototypes, and technical content focused on understanding how AI systems can be attacked, evaluated, and defended.


πŸ” AI Security Focus Areas

  • Agentic AI Security
  • LLM & RAG Security
  • Prompt Injection & Tool Abuse
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security
  • Adversarial Machine Learning
  • AI Red Teaming & Security Evaluation
  • AI Threat Modelling
  • Secure AI Architectures
  • Threat Detection & Behaviour Analysis
  • Responsible AI & Secure Deployment

🧰 Tech Stack

πŸ€– AI & Machine Learning

🧠 Agentic AI & LLM Systems

πŸ” Cybersecurity

☁️ Cloud, Data & Engineering


⭐ Featured Projects

πŸ‰ AgentBreak

Research project focused on agentic AI attack chains, including prompt injection, tool abuse, context manipulation, memory poisoning, and trust-boundary failures.

πŸ›‘οΈ MCP-SHIELD

Defensive research project focused on securing Model Context Protocol ecosystems, tool permissions, capability boundaries, validation, and runtime controls.

🌌 Orion

Adversarial AI experimentation framework for evaluating and defending traditional machine learning and generative AI systems.

πŸ”₯ GhostfaceFuzzer

Adversarial fuzzing toolkit for LLMs and image classifiers, including jailbreak generation, perturbation pipelines, evaluation metrics, and red-teaming workflows.


πŸ“š Books

  • Cybersecurity: An Approach Based on Data Science
  • Cybersecurity: Data Holds the Answer
  • Cybersecurity: Data, the Seeds of Chaos

All published by Editorial ICESI.


πŸ† Highlights

  • International speaker and instructor in cybersecurity and AI
  • Author of three cybersecurity books
  • Research experience in adversarial ML, AI security, and secure AI systems
  • Developer of offensive and defensive AI security research projects
  • Speaker and trainer across industry, academic, and security communities

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