Scholar
João P. Vilela
Google Scholar ID: sJAUIFsAAAAJ
Professor @ University of Porto, Portugal
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,090
H-index
16
i10-index
27
Publications
20
Co-authors
29
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Supervised student Mariana Cunha on her PhD thesis about privacy-preserving mechanisms for heterogeneous data types;
- Supervised student Catarina Gomes on a novel Active Attribute Inference attack over FL and corresponding defense mechanisms accepted at Euro S&P conference;
- Contributed an entry on Geo-Indistinguishability to the Springer Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy;
- Hosted the ACM CODASPY conference at the University of Porto;
- Supervised student Ricardo Mendes on his PhD thesis about automated privacy protection for mobile devices;
- Received Best Paper Award for ACM CODASPY paper on prediction of mobile app privacy preferences via federated learning;
- Published a paper on ESORICS about mechanisms for predicting answers to permission requests in smartphones;
- Published a PerCom (A*) paper with results of a field study on the effect of user expectation on mobile privacy;
- Student André Brandão received the merit award from AP2SI for his work on using federated learning for privacy in mobile devices;
- Supervised student Saulo Queiroz on his PhD thesis and he graduated summa cum laude;
- Supervised student Bruno Dalmazo on his PhD thesis and he successfully defended it;
- Paper 'Quantifying Equivocation for Finite Blocklength Wiretap Codes' was selected for IEEE ComSoc Best Readings in Physical-layer Security.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Porto;
- Involved in multiple research projects including COP-MODE, SNOB-5G, etc.;
- Presented talks at various international conferences and workshops such as ACM CODASPY, ERCIM Workshop, etc.
Background
- Security and Privacy Professor at the University of Porto, Director of the Master's Degree in Information Security, Senior Researcher at INESC TEC and CISUC, Member of C3P - Competence Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy.
