Students

I am currently working to guide masters students through their first research experiences, preparing them the critical thinking and problem solving skills they need to move on to industry or to continue an academic career.

Current Students

Masters Students

Margarida Lopes

Mitigating Rogue Administrator Attacks in Democratic Institutions Using New Access Control Methods
Expected Completion: May 2023

Afonso Gomes

Thwarting Traffic Confirmation Attacks in Tor with Rendezvous Mixing
Expected Completion: Dec. 2023

João Silva

Siphon: Towards removing ineficiente gas patterns from Smart Contracts
Expected Completion: Dec. 2023

Sebastian Oca

Developing a Threat Modeling Protocol for Horizontal Organizations
Expected Completion: Dec. 2023

Tiago Fournigault

Decentralizing Deliberation for DAOs
Expected Completion: Dec. 2023

Guilherme Gaspar

SmartSecureChain: Studying Common Attacks Against Smart Contracts
Expected Completion: Dec. 2023

Rui Costa

Dynamic Smart Contracts to Fill Large Food Orders from Small Suppliers
Expected Completion: Dec. 2023

José Congo

More Than Human Democracies and Spaces
Expected Completion: Dec. 2023

Inês Oliveira

LGBTQIA+ Privacy
Expected Completion: May 2024

Rui Genovevo

Improving Tor’s Traffic Analysis Protection using Differential Privacy
Expected Completion: May 2024

Graduated Students

Masters Students

Stefan Kwant

The Not-So Disruptive Nature of Blockchain Technology: A Systematic Review
Completed: April 2023

Diogo Nogueira

Preventing misinformation with a private blockchain: A case study on a news industry application
Completed: Dec. 2022