João P. Vilela, Security and Privacy Prof. @ University of Porto

Assistant Professor - Security and Privacy

Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Porto
Director of the Master in Information Security
Senior researcher at INESC TEC and CISUC
Member of C3P -- Competence Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy

Contact:

Departamento de Ciência de Computadores, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
Rua Campo Alegre 1055, 4169-007 Porto

Office: 1.28
Email: jvilela arroba fc dot up dot pt

News

[Sep 2023] I gave a research talk of our work on mobile privacy at the Seminar of the Post-Graduate Program of the Department of Informatics at PUC-Rio, Brazil
[Aug 2023] I gave a research talk on the Seminar Series of UNICAMP - Instituto de Computação, Brazil, of our work on mobile privacy
[Apr 2023] I presented our mobile privacy work at the ERCIM Workshop on Privacy, Transparency, Sovereignty and Security
[Jan 2023] Ricardo Mendes has defended his PhD thesis on Automated Privacy Protection for Mobile Devices summa cum laude. Congratulations!
[Dec 2022] I presented the results of the COP-MODE project to the radio show/podcast 90 segundos de ciência (in Portuguese)
[Dec 2022] I participated in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Inter-Vehicular Communication. Great environment and discussions!
[Nov 2022] My student André Brandão has received the merit award from AP2SI with his work on using federated learning for privacy in mobile devices
[Apr 2022] Best Paper Award for ACM CODASPY paper on prediction of mobile app privacy preferences via federated learning.
[Apr 2022] ESORICS paper accepted with mechanisms for predicting answers to permission requests in smartphones. Avoid having to answer 35 permission requests per hour for optimal privacy
[Mar 2022] PerCom (A*) paper with the results of a field study on the Effect of User Expectation on Mobile Privacy. Highlights: nearly 50% unexpected permission requests and 15% privacy violations on Android 9. Check the teaser video
[Feb 2022] I was a moderator for the 2nd webinar of the AIDA Webinar Series on Improving 5G Risk Management
[Jan 2022] Saulo Queiroz (co-advised with Edmundo Monteiro) has defended his PhD thesis summa cum laude. Congrats!
[Jun 2021] Mariana has presented our work on location privacy at C-Days. Video (in PT) available here
[May 2021] I've presented COP-MODE along with other NGI Trust projs at the NGI Forum 2021. Slides available here
[Apr 2021] Read about the MIT-Portugal SNOB-5G project by Pedro Diogo, from Ubiwhere, and myself
[Oct 2020] My student Mariana Cunha has received the merit award from AP2SI with her work on location privacy
[Aug 2019] I'm an associate editor for the new IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. Submit your work!
[Oct 2018] Bruno Dalmazo (co-advised with Marilia Curado) has defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
[Jun 2018] I gave talks on Security and Privacy for IoT Communications at C-Days and RTCM
[May 2018] Our paper on Quantifying Equivocation for Finite Blocklength Wiretap Codes was selected for the IEEE ComSoc Best Readings in Physical-layer Security
[Apr 2018] I participated as project review expert for the CHIST-ERA projects seminar in Paris, France
[Mar 2018] I gave a talk on Wireless Physical-layer Security at the Security Seminar of the University of Cambridge, UK
[Sep 2017] Our Privacy-Preserving Data Mining paper (IEEE Access) is featured in the Top 100 IEEE Articles
[Jul 2016] Our work on wireless security is featured in some national newspapers: Negócios, Público, Exame Informática