Nuno Laranjeiro
- Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra
- Researcher and member of the Software and Systems Engineering Group (SSE) of the Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC)
- Formerly a Software Engineer at Critical Software
- Habilitation in Informatics Engineering, Programming Methodologies and Software Engineering University of Coimbra (UC); PhD in Information Science and Technology (UC); MSc and BSc in Informatics Engineering (UC); Licenciatura (5 year degree) in Biology (UC)
Projects and publications at CISUC. Full texts and
featured publications available at Research Gate.
Scholar profile at Google. My Orcid ID.
Everything you always wanted to know about my PhD thesis but were afraid to ask:
Selected events:
- Program Coordinator of DSN 2025, Napoli, Italy
- Program Committee Chair of LADC 2024, Recife, Brazil
- Program Committee Chair of ISSRE 2023, Firenze, Italy
- Program Committee Chair of WoSoCeR 2022, Charlotte, USA
- Workshops Chair of LADC 2021, Florianópolis, Brazil
- Publicity Chair of ISSRE 2021, Wuhan, China
- Publication Chair of ISSRE 2020, Coimbra, Portugal
- Publication Chair of ISSRE 2019, Berlin, Germany
- Publication Chair of ISSRE 2018, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Publication Chair of ISSRE 2017, Toulouse, France
- Publication Chair of EDCC 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Chair of DSS 2016, San Francisco, USA.
- Chair of DSS 2015, New York, USA.
- Chair of DSS 2014, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
Selected publications:
- Fernando Richter Vidal, Naghmeh Ivaki, Nuno Laranjeiro, "bBench: A Comprehensive Performance Benchmark for Blockchain Applications" The 36th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2025), São Paulo, Brazil, 21-24 October 2025, doi: 10.1109/ISSRE66568.2025.00046. PDF
- Jessica Castro, Nuno Laranjeiro, Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova and Marco Vieira, "Developing Attack Detection Models for Microservice Applications: A Comprehensive Framework and Its Illustration and Validation on DoS Attacks," in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2025 doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2025.3590197. PDF
- Fernando Richter Vidal, Naghmeh Ivaki, Nuno Laranjeiro, OpenSCV: an open hierarchical taxonomy for smart contract vulnerabilities. Empirical Software Engineering Vol. 29, no. 101. DOI: 10.1007/s10664-024-10446-8, June 2024. PDF
- Nuno Laranjeiro, João Agnelo, and Jorge Bernardino. A Systematic Review on Software Robustness Assessment. ACM Computing Surveys. Vol. 54, no. 4, Article 89, pp. 1-65. DOI: 10.1145/3448977, May 2022. PDF
- Andy Neumann, Nuno Laranjeiro, and Jorge Bernardino. An Analysis of Public REST Web Service APIs. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 957-970, DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2018.2847344, 2021. PDF
Some of my workgroups:
- Blockchain Research Hub: Information about my work on blockchain, including selected publications and team members.
Tools:
- boole: An on-line tool for building truth tables. Let me know if you're interested in using it!
- onda: ONline Database Architect: An on-line tool for creating Entity-Relationship diagrams, creating physical data models, and DDL scripts.
Work opportunities:
- Are you an undergraduate student wanting to work hard?
- Are you searching for an interesting MSc Thesis topic or planning to do a PhD?
- Do you want to learn how to do research or collaborate in research projects?
- Some of the open work topics in my group include: microservices, blockchain, robustness and security evaluation of software systems, fault and vulnerability injection, use of AI in software engineering including large language models and agentic AI, among others.
There is an opportunity for you to start working part-time or full-time in the Software and Systems Engineering (SSE) CISUC research group at DEI. You may also check the SSE website at CISUC or our local SSE website for details on our activity. Drop me an email and I will get back to you!
E-Mail: cnl@dei.uc.pt
Last update: May 2026