João S. Resende
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Departamento de Ciência de Computadores (FC6 - DCC) Contact: jresende (at) fc_up_pt |
Short Bio
João Resende is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), where he teaches courses at both FCUP and the Faculty of Engineering (FEUP). Prior to this role, he served as an Assistant Professor at the NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT/UNL) in Lisbon.
He holds a PhD in Computer Science, specializing in Security Enhancing Technologies for Cloud-of-Clouds. His doctoral research was conducted collaboratively between the Universities of Minho, Aveiro, and Porto.
His expertise spans computer science and cybersecurity, with contributions to both academic research and large-scale European cybersecurity initiatives. He currently supervises four PhD students in collaboration with researchers from multiple institutions, including João Gama (FEP), Henrique Domingos (NOVA), and Osman Yağan (CMU).
Among his many academic contributions, a recent highlight is the paper “Obscura: Enabling Ephemeral Proxies for Traffic Encapsulation in WebRTC Media Streams Against Cost-Effective Censors” (PoPETs). He also maintains a broad portfolio of research in cybersecurity, privacy-enhancing technologies, and resilient communication systems.
He is the Principal Investigator of the research project HOSKY – Hardening Operational Security of CSIRT Based on Predictive Maintenance, which focuses on strengthening the operational security of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) through predictive maintenance techniques, advanced middleware, and data-driven security analytics.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsresende
Principal investigator (PI) Projects
- Hardening Operation Security of CSIRT based on predictive maintenance - https://sciproj.ptcris.pt/en/176773PRJ
Publications Selected
- [PDF] Obscura: Enabling Ephemeral Proxies for Traffic Encapsulation in WebRTC Media Streams Against Cost-Effective Censors . Afonso Vilalonga, Kevin Gallagher, João S. Resende and Henrique Domingos. PoPETs 2026 – Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Issue 1
- [PDF] Looking at the Clouds: Leveraging Pub/Sub Cloud Services for Censorship-Resistant Rendezvous Channels. Afonso Vilalonga, João S. Resende and Henrique Domingos. PETS2024 - FOCI
- [PDF] Hardware Security for Internet of Things Identity Assurance. Andre Cirne, Patricia Sousa (INSIGHTSEC), João S. Resende, Luis Antunes. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
- [PDF] TorKameleon: Improving Tor’s Censorship Resistance with K-anonymization and Media-based Covert Channels. Afonso Vilalonga, João Resende and Henrique Domingos. Trustcom 2023.
- [PDF] [Dataset] Online Influence Forest for Streaming Anomaly Detection. Inês Martins et al. Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XXI 2023.
- [PDF] Threat Detection and Mitigation with Honeypots: A Modular Approach for IoT Simão Silva et al. TrustBus 2022: Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business
- [PDF] IoT security certifications: Challenges and potential approaches Andre Cirne et al. Computers & Security 2022
- [PDF] Host-based IDS: A review and open issues of an anomaly detection system in IoT Inês Martins et al. Future Generation Computer Systems (2022).
- Hardening of cryptographic operations through the use of Secure Enclaves André Brandão et al. Computers & Security (2021)
- Towards a Modular On-Premise Approach for Data Sharing Joao S. Resende et al. Sensors 2021
- Breaking MPC implementations through compression Joao S. Resende et al. International Journal of Information Security 2019
For a full list of papers check my Google Scholar.
International Patent
- Internet of things security with multi-party computation (mpc) U.S. Patent Application} No. 17/055,671. US20210203492A1 (INESC-TEC)
PhD Students
- Inês Martins - Intrusion Detection with stream mining - with João Gama (FEP) (2021-present)
- João Vilalonga - “Privacy-preserved Distributed Pipelines in IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuums” with Henrique Domingos (NOVA) and Osman Yağan (CMU) (2023-present)
- Bruno Preto - “The banking system approach for Defi” (2024-present)
Local Activities
FEUP/DCC. Paper readings on distributed systems Informal Readings @Porto
Prospective PhD Students
If you are interested in doing a PhD with me, drop me an email explaining your topics of interest and why you are interested in doing a PhD. Formally, you will have to apply to the CS PhD program in my department, but I am more than happy to guide you through the process. I also have various research collaborations with universities in Portugal and with Carnegie Mellon University, with which co-supervisions are often possible. If this is something you’d be interested in, I strongly urge you to contact me ASAP, since the timings and requirements to apply for these PhD programs can be very different from those at University of Porto.