Graduate Students

I am an Associate Professor of the Graduate Program in Computer Science at Centro de Informática (CIn) of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). CIn-UFPE is a leading Computer Science School in Brazil — It received the maximum score in the nationwide evaluation of Graduate Programs in Computer Science in Brazil (CAPES 7).

If you are interested in joining my research group at CIn-UFPE, please send me an e-mail.

My Graduate Students are listed below.

Doctoral Students

1. Gilles P. Medeiros de Farias
   Ph.D. of Computer Science, UFPE – (2024-current)
   Research area: Adversarial Machine Learning for Computer Networks

2. Luigi F. M. da Luz
   Ph.D. of Computer Science, UFPE – (2025-current)
   Research area: Vehicular cybersecurity

3. Waqas Ahmad
   Ph.D. of Computer Science, UFPE – (2025-current)
   Research area: Vehicular cybersecurity

M.Sc. Students

1. Izabella M. C. Melo
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE – (2024-current)
   Research area: iOS app security

2. Paulo D. Salgado-Filho
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE – (2024-current)
   Research area: Vehicular cybersecurity

Recent Graduates

Doctorate

1. David A. Nascimento
   Doctorate in Computer Science, UFPE
   Dissertation Title: Enabling TSN Scheduled Traffic on Ethernet Multidrop In-Vehicle Networks Feb 2024

2. Paulo Freitas de Araujo-Filho
   Doctorate in Computer Science, UFPE
   Dissertation Title: Towards Intelligent Security Mechanisms for Connected Things Mar 2023.
   Best Doctoral Dissertation defended in Brazil in 2023 in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
   Best Doctoral Dissertation Runner-up defended in Brazil in 2023 among all Computing Areas

3. Alexandre C. Fontinele
   Doctorate in Computer Science, UFPE
   Dissertation Title: Algoritmos RMLSA cientes de Imperfeições de Camada Física em Redes Ópticas Elásticas (in Portuguese) Aug 2021

4. Jeandro M. Bezerra
   Doctorate in Computer Science, UFPE
   Dissertation Title: Traffic Engineering in Data Center Networks: Prediction and Scheduling via Randomized Rounding for Elephant Flows Nov 2020

5. Antonio Janael Pinheiro
   Doctorate in Computer Science, UFPE
   Dissertation Title: Preenchimento de pacotes adaptável em redes de casas inteligentes: um compromisso entre aprimoramento da privacidade e overhead de comunicação (in Portuguese), Mar 2020

6. Fernando López Rodríguez
   Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, UnB
   Dissertation Title: Proposta de arquitetura para provedores de serviços de redes fixas e móveis usando SDN OpenFlow (in Portuguese), co-supervision, Jul 2019

Master’s

1. Luigi F. M. da Luz
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE
   Thesis Title: Enhancing cybersecurity of automotive Ethernet networks with deep-learning-based intrusion detection systems, Sep 2024.
   Best M.Sc. Thesis Runner-up defended in Brazil in 2024 in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
   One of the three Best M.Sc. Theses defended in Brazil in 2024 among all Computing Areas

2. Caio A. P. Burgardt
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE
   Thesis Title: Malware detection in macOS using supervised learning, Feb 2022

3. Luis F. Prado D’Andrada
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE
   Thesis Title: Um sistema de detecção de intrusão de tempo real e baseado em anomalias para redes CAN automotivas (in Portuguese), Feb 2020

4. Rodrigo A. A. Nascimento
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE
   Thesis Title: Design and development of IDS for AVB/TSN, May 2019

5. Paulo Freitas de Araujo-Filho
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE
   Thesis Title: Contributions to in-vehicle networks: error injection and intrusion detection systems for CAN, and Audio Video Bridging synchronization, Jul 2018

6. Rhudney A. M. B. K. Simões
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE
   Thesis Title: Uma extensão da arquitetura de ETSI ITS-S para comunicação entre aplicações ITS, IoT e SOME/IP (in Portuguese), Sep 2017

7. Johnathan D. Vago
   Master (Professional) of Computer Science, UFPE
   Thesis Title: Uma estratégia para estabelecer fluxos em redes SDN-OpenFlow com redução de carga no controlador (in Portuguese), Jun 2017

8. Edilson A. Silva Junior
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE
   Thesis Title: Low-cost experimental validation of cryptographic protocols for safety-critical automotive communication, Mar 2017

9. Fabio L. Soares
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE
   Thesis Title: Sistema embarcado para comunicação intraveicular segura em Diagnostics over IP (in Portuguese), Aug 2016

10. Antonio Janael Pinheiro
    Master of Computer Science, UFPE
    Thesis Title: Aplicação de políticas de middleboxes com o uso de software-defined networking (in Portuguese), Feb 2016

11. Ethel B. Gondim
    Master of Applied Computing, UnB
    Thesis Title: Monitoramento de desempenho com middleboxes em redes definidas por software (in Portuguese), Aug 2015

12. Raisa O. C. Hirafuji
    Master of Electrical Engineering, UnB
    Thesis Title: Energy efficiency in next-generation optical access networks, Nov 2014

13. Fernando Lopez-Rodriguez
    Master of Electrical Engineering, UnB
    Thesis Title: Arquitetura e protótipo de uma rede SDN-OpenFlow para provedor de serviço (in Portuguese), May 2014