Projects

Ongoing

IDINA - Inclusive Non-Authoritative Digital Identity

• Funding: IN3+ Innovation Award
• Role: Coordinator
• Summary: The main objective of this project is to create a non-authoritative digital identity system in order to reach populations of countries where more than 1 billion people do not possess a legal identity document. The main scientific challenges are related to information security and privacy of sensitive data.
• Website: idina.network

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Saúde24h-GB

• Role: Coordinator
• Summary: Starting in January 2024, in collaboration with the NGO VIDA, INESC TEC is leading the project to develop the supporting system for the 24-hour health line service in Guinea Bissau.

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FLEXCOMM - Towards Energy-aware Communications: Connecting the power grid and communication infrastructure

• Funding: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
  • Project reference: EXPL/CCI-INF/1543/2021
• Role: Coordinator
• Summary: This project aims at designing and developing technologies to enable interoperability between communication networks and power distribution systems. Based on this integration, routing protocols capable of adapting data transmission to the energy flexibility and source will be designed and assessed. The rationale is to give priority to network sections powered by renewable energy as a green network strategy.

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SMARTNET - Smart Networks as a Platform for Sustainable Smart Cities

• Funding: FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
  • Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus Programme
• Description: Long-term individual project funded by FCT to design and develop technologies and strategies to reduce the energy impact of communication networks. The scientific contributions are organised in three architectural levels, i.e., light-edge networks, heavy-edge networks and convergent layers.

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STDGNS - Study on the cybersecurity community in Portugal

• Funding: GNS/CNCS - Gabinete Nacional de Segurança / Centro Nacional de Cibersegurança
• Role: Coordinator
• Description: I have led a study on the current landscape of national competencies in cybersecurity. The CNCS will publish this study as a reference indicator of the areas where Portugal needs investments in cybersecurity over the coming years.

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PRR-ATE - Alliance for Energy Transition

• Funding: Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência - Portugal
  • Project reference: C644914747-00000023
• Role: Researcher
• Decription: Within the work package 13.1, I will lead the definition of an IoT security baseline providing guidelines for OT device deployment and operation.

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Privacy Shield - Data Privacy for Medical Records Interoperable Systems

• Funding: CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil
  • Coordination: University Federal of Santa Maria
• Role: External researcher
• Description: Project developing mechanisms for information security and data privacy in interoper- able medical record systems.

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IDMobile - Digital Mobile Identification

• Funding: R&D project commissioned by INCM - Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda
• Role: Researcher
• Descriptiom: This project was responsible for the development of proofs of concept and the functional prototypes of what will be the Portuguese mobile driving licence.
• Concluded in 2021

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IDigital

• Funding: R&D project commissioned by INCM - Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda
• Role: Researcher
• Description: The national consortium responsible for defining strategies and technical requirements for the next-generation Portuguese digital mobile identity system.
  • Consortium entities: Universidade do Minho, Universidade do Porto, Universidade de Aveiro, Instituto Superior Técnico, INESC TEC, INOV, INESC-ID, and INESC
• Concluded in 2021

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LightKone - Lightweight Computation for Networks at the Edge

• Funding: European Commission Horizon 2020 (EC H2020)
  • Operation Code: 732505
• Role: Researcher
• Summary: The EU project LightKone developed validated models for doing general-purpose computation on edge networks by combining two recent advances in distributed computing, namely synchronisation-free programming and hybrid gossip algorithms, both of which are successfully used separately in industry.
• Website: lightkone.eu
• Concluded in 2019

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DSGRID - Digital Systems Technology for Next Generation Grid Automation

• Funding: Portugal 2020 (PT2020)
  • Operation Code: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-011122 subcontract
• Role: Researcher
• Summary: A multidisciplinary project that brought together areas of knowledge of (i) power, (ii) automation and protection, (iii) communications, (iv) real-time systems, (v) embedded systems, (vi) cybersecurity and (vii) information and software technologies contributed by the four participating entities.
• Concluded in 2018

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PASP PALOP-TL - Support to Improvement in Quality and Proximity of Public Services of PALOP and East-Timor

• Funding: European Commission
  • CRIS number: 2009/21732 subcontract
• Role: Post-Doc Researcher
• Summary: Project to support the improvement of public services provided by Portuguese-speaking African Countries and East-Timor (PALOP-TL) through EGOV solutions. The approach was to lay the foundations for services digitalisation, based on open frameworks for e-governance and training of national experts, to simplify administrative practices and services for citizens.
• Concluded in 2018

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Network Traffic Measurement Using Sampling Techniques

• Funding: POSGRAP/CINTTEC/UFS
  • Coordination: Universidade Federal de Sergipe - Brasil
  • Operation Code: PIBIT 2016/2017 PVB4239-2016
• Role: External researcher
• Summary: A project that used the traffic sampling framework developed in my PhD to evaluate the comparative impact of different sampling schemes on computer network monitoring tasks.
• Concluded in 2017

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Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis using Adaptive Messurement Techniques

• Funding: POSGRAP/COPES/UFS
  • Coordination: Universidade Federal de Sergipe - Brasil
  • Operation Code: PIBIC 2014/2015 PVB2811-2014
• Role: External researcher
• Summary: A project that evaluated the traffic sampling technique developed in my master’s research in the context of measuring the Quality of Service (QoS) of different applications.
• Concluded in 2015

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Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Voice and Video Services in IP Networks

• Funding: UFS, PIBIC - CNPq
  • Coordination: Universidade Federal de Sergipe - Brasil
• Role: Scientific initiation researcher
• Summary: Project that explored techniques for estimating and modelling the Quality of Service (QoS) of voice and video applications. In this context, it was developed a parser from OMG SysML models to Petri Net, through which a VoIP service was deployed resorting to queuing theory.
• Concluded in 2008

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Traffic Modeling in Computer Networking

• Funding: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
  • Coordination: Universidade Federal de Sergipe - Brasil
• Role: Researcher with a scientific initiation grant
• Summary: A project that explored different techniques for Hurst parameter estimation as a mechanism of ethernet traffic characterisation.
• Concluded in 2007