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About Me

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. My main interests are in distributed systems security and privacy, with special focus on cloud computing, decentralized systems, computing on encrypted data, and searchable encryption.

Research areas:

Security, Privacy, Distributed Systems

Ongoing Projects

2025-2026 APOSTLE - new Approaches for Secure Distributed Data Processing and Access
Role: Coordinator Funding: 49k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

2023-2026 SMaRtChain - Fast and Energy-efficient Distributed Consensus for Blockchains
Role: Co-Coordinator Funding: 132k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

Past Projects

2023-2026 Myriarch - FraMewoRk for a multI-ARCHitecture Internet
Role: Researcher Funding: 255k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

2022-2023 DaNon - Supervised Deanonymization of Dark Web Traffic for Cybercrime Investigation
Role: Researcher & Local Coordinator Funding: 69k € Type: CMU Portugal Exploratory Project

2018-2022 HADES - HArdware-backed trusted and scalable DEcentralized Systems
Role: Coordinator Funding: 239k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

2018-2022 SAMOA - Secure and Scalable Platform for Massive-scale Mobile Applications
Role: Task Leader Funding: 234k € Type: National FCT/MCTES

2017-2019 LightKone - Lightweight Computations on the Edge
Role: Researcher Funding: 3.5M € Type: EU H2020

Selected Publications (see all)

All Publications (see selected)

Service

Organization

EDCC 2025 - Publicity Chair

INForum 2024 - Financial Chair

INForum 2024 - Computer Systems and Communications Security Track - Program Committee Co-Chair

SafeComp 2020 - Publicity Chair

W-PSDS 2019 - Co-Organizer and Program Committee Co-Chair

OPODIS 2018 - Proceedings Chair

INForum 2018 - Computer Systems and Communications Security Track - Program Committee Co-Chair

Reviewing

DSN 2026 - Program Committee Member

EDCC 2026 - Program Committee Member

INForum 2025 - Computer Systems and Communications Security Track - Program Committee Member

INForum 2024 - Computer Systems and Communications Security Track - Program Committee Member

OPODIS 2023 - Program Committee Member

INForum 2019 - Computer Systems and Communications Security Track - Program Committee Member

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security – Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing – Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Computers – Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing – Reviewer

Security and Communication Networks Journal – Reviewer

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems – External Reviewer

DSN 2019 – External Reviewer

SRDS 2017 – External Reviewer

IVMSP 2016 – External Reviewer

HVC 2014 – External Reviewer

INForum 2015 – External Reviewer

INForum 2014 – External Reviewer

EuroSys 2016 Shadow Program Committee – Heavy Member

EuroSys 2015 Shadow Program Committee – Light Member

Students

Current

Joel Samper (PhD - FC/UL)

Bruno Cotrim (MSc - FC/UL - Co-Adviser Miguel Matos)

David Dantas (MSc - FC/UL - Co-Adviser Alysson Bessani)

Miguel Reis (MSc - FC/UL - Co-Adviser Alysson Bessani)

Tânia Araújo (MSc - FC/UL - Co-Adviser Ricardo Ramalho)

Teaching

BSc in Computer Science

Distributed Systems (2017,19-22), Computer Networks (2019-24), Computer Systems Architecture (2020-23), Security and Reliability (2020), Introduction to Programming (2008,11-14), Object-Oriented Programming (2012,16)

MSc in Computer Science & Information Security

Applied Security (2024), Data Privacy and Security (2022-24), Middleware Technologies (2021), Intrusion Detection and Tolerance (2021)