| João P. Vilela is a professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto and a senior researcher at INESC TEC and CISUC. He was previously a professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra after receiving the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Porto in 2011, and a visiting researcher at Georgia Tech and MIT, USA. In recent years, Dr. Vilela has been coordinator and team member of several national, bilateral, and European-funded projects in security and privacy. His main research interests are in security and privacy of computer and communication systems, with applications such as wireless networks and mobile devices. Specific research topics include wireless physical-layer security, security of next-generation networks, privacy-preserving machine learning, location privacy and automated privacy protection. |