phd students

Leveraging LLMs for Software Vulnerability Detection and Patching
Arastoo Zibaeirad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA

LLM-based Solutions for Bug Report Analysis and Management
Tasfia Tasnim (Co-Advisor: Rrezarta Krasniqi), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA

Adversarially-Hardened Static Code Analysis
Lukas Boschanski, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA

(TBD)
Rodrigo Nogueira, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA

Security in Virtualized Systems: Contributions on Anomaly Detection, Vulnerability Analysis, and Intrusion Injection
Charles Gonçalves (Co-Advisor: Nuno Antunes), University of Coimbra, Portugal

Techniques and Tools for Runtime Security Monitoring and Adaptation of Microservices
Jessica Maciel (Co-Advisor: Nuno Laranjeiro), University of Coimbra, Portugal

Intrusion Detection and Tolerance for Microservice Applications
Iury Araújo, University of Coimbra, Portugal

An Integrated Maturity Model for Modern Software Development: Addressing AI, Security and Governance in DevOps
Nuno Seixas (Co-Advisor: Paulo Rupino), University of Coimbra, Portugal

Methodology for Vulnerability Detection in IoT Gateways Source Code
Diego Ribeiro (Co-Advisor: Fernando Aires Lins), University of Coimbra, Portugal

Security Evaluation of Smart Home Devices based on the OWASP TOP 10 IoT Vulnerabilities
Eduardo Felix (Co-Advisor: Fernando Aires Lins), University of Coimbra, Portugal

Security Benchmarking of IoT systems
Thaer Alsalibi (Co-Advisor: Naghmeh Ivaki), University of Coimbra, Portugal

LLM-based Software Trustworthiness Assessment
Saeed Javani (Co-Advisor: José D’Abruzzo Pereira), University of Coimbra, Portugal

AI-Powered Software Project Management
Adriana Bernardo (Co-Advisor: João Barata), University of Coimbra, Portugal

Models for Availability and Security Evaluation of Time-based Virtual Machine Migration as Moving Target Defense
Matheus Torquato, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2024

Software Security Characterization through Static Data Analysis
José D’Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2024

Software Metrics and Machine Learning for Software Security
Nádia Medeiros (Co-Advisor: Pedro Costa), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2023

Blended Security Analysis for Web Applications Techniques And Tools
Paulo Nunes (Co-Advisor: José Fonseca), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2022

Advanced Online Failure Prediction through Machine Learning
João Campos (Co-Advisor: Ernesto Costa), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2022

An Empirical Approach to Improve the Quality and Dependability of Critical Systems Engineering
Nuno Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2018

Security Benchmarking for Web Service Frameworks
Rui Oliveira (Co-Advisor: Nuno Laranjeiro), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2018

Benchmarking User-Defined Security Configurations of Mobile Devices
Daniel Vecchiato (Co-Advisor: Eliane Martins), UNICAMP, Brazil, 2016

EQualPI: a Framework to Evaluate the Quality of the Implementation of the CMMI Practices
Isabel Margarido (Co-Advisor: Raul Moreira Vidal), University of Porto, Portugal, 2016

Fault Injection for Online Failure Prediction Assessment and Improvement
Ivano Irrera, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2016

Self-Healing Techniques for Video-Streaming Applications
Carlos Cunha (Co-Advisor: Luis Silva), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2016

A Comprehensive Approach to Guide the Design of Privacy-Aware Web Applications
Tánia Basso (Co-Advisors: Regina Moares, Mário Jino), UNICAMP, Brazil, 2015

Enhancing Data Security in Data Warehousing
Ricardo Santos (Co-Advisor: Jorge Bernardino), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2014

Benchmarking the Resilience of Satellite Simulation Infrastructures based on HLS
Denise Azevedo (Co-Advisor: Ana Maria Ambrosio), INPE, Brazil, 2014

Software Vulnerability Detection in Service-Based Infrastructures: Techniques and Tools
Nuno Antunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2014

Security Benchmarking of Transactional Systems
Afonso Araújo Neto, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2013

Advancing Software Services Robustness: Techniques for Assessment and Improvement
Nuno Laranjeiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2011

Evaluating the [In]security of Web Applications
José Fonseca (Co-Advisor: Henrique Madeira), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 2011