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João P. Vilela is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto, director of the Master Degree in Information Security and coordinator of the Centre for Advanced Computer Systems at INESC TEC. He was previously an Assistant 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 networked and intelligent systems, with applications in next-generation wireless and mobile environments. Key topics include security and privacy of 6G networks and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC/JCAS), as well as trustworthy machine learning — including privacy-preserving federated learning and generative models — and automated, scalable privacy-enhancing technologies. João Vilela has been the general chair of ACM CODASPY 2024, track-chair for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2023 and is an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security since April 2025. He has been an expert project evaluator for the CHIST-ERA ERA-NET, the European Union Horizon Europe programme, the National Research Fund of Luxembourg, and the Dutch Research Council of Netherlands. Dr. Vilela has presented his research work in international institutions such as PUC-Rio, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Unicamp and University of São Paulo (Brazil), IMDEA Networks (Spain), INRIA (France), Harvard University and MIT (USA), and University of Cambridge (UK), among others. |