phd students

Over the years I have had the privilege of advising PhD students across institutions in Portugal, Brazil, and the United States. Their work spans software security, dependability, software engineering, and trustworthy systems — and I am proud of every one of them.

Ongoing @ Charlotte

Arastoo Zibaeirad
Leveraging LLMs for Software Vulnerability Detection and Patching
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA
Lukas Boschanski
Adversarially-Hardened Static Code Analysis
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA
Rodrigo Nogueira
Multi-Agent Framework for Reliable Software Generation with LLMs
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA  ·  Co-Advisor: João Campos
José Flauzino
Evaluation of the Robustness of Linux Kernel Modules via Netlink
Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil  ·  Co-Advisor: Elias Duarte

Ongoing @ UC

Jessica Maciel
Methods and Tools for Security Attack Detection in Microservices
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  Co-Advisor: Nuno Laranjeiro
Iury Araújo
Intrusion Detection and Tolerance for Microservice Applications
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Nuno Seixas
An Integrated Maturity Model for Modern Software Development: Addressing AI, Security and Governance in DevOps
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  Co-Advisor: Paulo Rupino
Diego Ribeiro
Methodology for Vulnerability Detection in IoT Gateways Source Code
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  Co-Advisor: Fernando Aires Lins
Eduardo Felix
Security Evaluation of Smart Home Devices based on the OWASP TOP 10 IoT Vulnerabilities
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  Co-Advisor: Fernando Aires Lins
Thaer Alsalibi
Security Benchmarking of IoT Systems
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  Co-Advisor: Naghmeh Ivaki
Saeed Javani
LLM-based Software Trustworthiness Assessment
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  Co-Advisor: José D'Abruzzo Pereira
Davide da Silva
LLM-Driven Moving Target Defense for Microservice Architectures Leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  Co-Advisor: Matheus Torquato
Galileu Batista
TBD
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  Co-Advisor: Charles Gonçalves
Ricardo Peres
TBD
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  Co-Advisor: Nuno Laranjeiro

Concluded

Charles Gonçalves
Security in Virtualized Systems: Contributions on Anomaly Detection and Intrusion Injection
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2025  ·  Co-Advisor: Nuno Antunes
Matheus Torquato
Models for Availability and Security Evaluation of Time-based Virtual Machine Migration as Moving Target Defense
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2024
José D'Abruzzo Pereira
Software Security Characterization through Static Data Analysis
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2024
Nádia Medeiros
Software Metrics and Machine Learning for Software Security
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2023  ·  Co-Advisor: Pedro Costa
Paulo Nunes
Blended Security Analysis for Web Applications Techniques And Tools
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2022  ·  Co-Advisor: José Fonseca
João Campos
Advanced Online Failure Prediction through Machine Learning
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2022  ·  Co-Advisor: Ernesto Costa
Nuno Silva
An Empirical Approach to Improve the Quality and Dependability of Critical Systems Engineering
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2018
Rui Oliveira
Security Benchmarking for Web Service Frameworks
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2018  ·  Co-Advisor: Nuno Laranjeiro
Daniel Vecchiato
Benchmarking User-Defined Security Configurations of Mobile Devices
UNICAMP, Brazil  ·  2016  ·  Co-Advisor: Eliane Martins
Isabel Margarido
EQualPI: a Framework to Evaluate the Quality of the Implementation of the CMMI Practices
University of Porto, Portugal  ·  2016  ·  Co-Advisor: Raul Moreira Vidal
Ivano Irrera
Fault Injection for Online Failure Prediction Assessment and Improvement
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2016
Carlos Cunha
Self-Healing Techniques for Video-Streaming Applications
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2016  ·  Co-Advisor: Luis Silva
Tánia Basso
A Comprehensive Approach to Guide the Design of Privacy-Aware Web Applications
UNICAMP, Brazil  ·  2015  ·  Co-Advisors: Regina Moares, Mário Jino
Ricardo Santos
Enhancing Data Security in Data Warehousing
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2014  ·  Co-Advisor: Jorge Bernardino
Denise Azevedo
Benchmarking the Resilience of Satellite Simulation Infrastructures based on HLS
INPE, Brazil  ·  2014  ·  Co-Advisor: Ana Maria Ambrosio
Nuno Antunes
Software Vulnerability Detection in Service-Based Infrastructures: Techniques and Tools
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2014
Afonso Araújo Neto
Security Benchmarking of Transactional Systems
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2013
Nuno Laranjeiro
Advancing Software Services Robustness: Techniques for Assessment and Improvement
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2011
José Fonseca
Evaluating the [In]security of Web Applications
University of Coimbra, Portugal  ·  2011  ·  Co-Advisor: Henrique Madeira
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