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. Henrique Ferraz Arcoverde
   Ph.D. of Computer Science, UFPE – (2021-current)
   Research area: Adversarial Machine Learning for Enterprise Networks

M.Sc. Students

1. Rodrigo A. de Araujo
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE – (2024-current)
   Research area: Intrusion Detection Systems for Automotive Ethernet

2. Luigi F. Marques da Luz
   Master of Computer Science, UFPE – (2021-current)
   Research area: Intrusion Detection Systems for Automotive Ethernet

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

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

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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

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

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

12. 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