Doctor Leonardo Palacios Luengas is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, in the area of Networks and Telecommunications at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus, since September 2018. He is a member of the National System of Researchers of Conacyt.

He obtained his Ph.D. in the area of Communications and Electronics from the National Polytechnic Institute in 2016. He collaborated as a Postdoctoral Research at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico, in the Electronics Group. In 2012, he received his Master of Science in Engineering in Microelectronics at the ESIME Culhuacan Campus of the IPN. He obtained a degree in Communications and Electronics Engineering in the area of Communications from ESIME Culhuacan Campus of the IPN in 2002.

His areas of research interest Cryptography, steganography, computer security, wireless network security, embedded system programming, including digital electronic design. He is the author of international publications, seminars, and scientific journals.