| Assistant Professor - Security and PrivacyProfessor at the Department of Computer Science, University of PortoInvited professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra 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 PortoRua Campo Alegre 1055, 4169-007 Porto Office: 1.02 Email: jvilela arroba fc dot up dot pt |
News
- [May 2022] ACM CODASPY paper for predicting answers to permission requests in smartphones in a private manner through federated learning. Avoid having to answer 35 permission requests per hour for optimal privacy
- [Mar 2022] PerCom 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
- [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