UC Researchers Return to UNICAMP

The University of Campinas (IC-UNICAMP) receives in July three returning researchers from the University of Coimbra (UC) to perform 1-month secondments: Prof. Marco Vieira, Prof. Nuno Laranjeiro and Naghmeh Ivaki.

Marco is an Associate Professor at the UC, and he is the coordinator of the DEVASSES project. Nuno is an Assistant Professor at the UC, and his research interests include experimental dependability evaluation of services, including robustness and interoperability assessment. Naghmeh is a PhD student at the UC. Her PhD work focuses on dependable distributed systems and her research interests also include security and big data.

During the secondment, Marco is lecturing an 18-hour course on “Techniques and Tools to Prevent and Detect Software Security Vulnerabilities”, to a class of 30 local students. The course covers several topics, including the development of secure code, the detection of software vulnerabilities and intrusion detection systems.

A series of presentations was organized during this period, where Nuno presented a talk on “Interoperable Services Research at the University of Coimbra" and Naghmeh presented a talk on “Design Patterns for reliable distributed communications”.