Students

This page lists current and former students supervised or co-supervised by José Alexandre D'Abruzzo Pereira.

Current Ph.D. students

• Saeed Javani Jananloo (2024-present): Leveraging Large Language Models for Software Trustworthiness Assessment. Role: co-supervisor; supervisor: Marco Vieira.
• Boshra Banoei Zadeh (2026-present): Intelligent Task-to-Agent Delegation for Secure Software Development Using Specialized LLM-Based Agents. Role: co-supervisor; supervisor: Naghmeh Ivaki.

Current M.Sc. Students (Research)

• [MIACD] Miguel Santos Nunes Pedro Serra (2026-present): Explainable AI for Software Vulnerability Detection: Mitigating Shortcuts in Hybrid GNN-LLM Models. Co-supervised with Nuno António Marques Lourenço.
• [MEI] João Luís Palma Esteves (2026-present): LLM-Assisted Exploit Generation from Software Vulnerability Descriptions. Co-supervised with João Rodrigues de Campos.
• [MEI] Tiago Duarte Marques (2026-present): LLM-Assisted Generation of Poisoned Pipeline Execution Attacks for CI/CD Security Benchmarking.
• [MEI] Francisco José Fernandes Caetano (2026-present): Trustworthiness Assessment of Secure Coding Practices Using Large Language Models. Co-supervised with João Rodrigues de Campos.
• [MEI] João Filipe Gaspar dos Santos (2026-present): When AI Writes Code: Measuring the Robustness and Security of Coding Agents Role: co-supervisor; supervisor: Charles Ferreira Gonçalves.
• [MEC] José Augusto Oliveira Azevdo (2026-present): Post-Quantum and Hybrid Cryptography in Three-Tier Web Architectures on .NET 10. Role: co-supervisor; supervisor: Bruno Sousa
• [MEI] Bernardo Miguel Gaspar de Sousa Coelho Lopes (2025-present): Evaluating the Security CI Server in the Presence of a Poisoned Pipeline. Co-supervised with Regina Moraes.
• [UNICAMP] Maria Victoria Soares Fiori (2024-2026): Assessing Architectural Security in Scientific Repositories: An Action-Research Approach. Role: co-supervisor; supervisor: Breno Bernard Nicolau de França
• [MEI] João Tomás Correia Ferreira (2024-present): Applying Orthogonal Defect Classification to Continuous Integration Tool Vulnerabilities.
• [MEI] Rodrigo de Almeida Manão (2026-present): TBD.
• [MEI] Simão Pedro Cavaleiro (2026-present): TBD.

Current M.Sc. Students (Industry)

• [MEI] Gonçalo Fernandes Ferreira (2026-present): Secure Execution of TMForum APIs with Policy-Controlled Support for Large Language Models. Role: co-supervisor; supervisor: Sérgio Figueiredo.
• [MEI] José Pedro de Pinho Santos (2026-present): Confidentiality protection mechanisms in LLM-based applications in the context of digital psychotherapy. Role: co-supervisor; supervisor: Sérgio Figueiredo.

Current B.Sc. students

• Mário Jorge Camapela dos Santos (2026-present): TBD.
• Diogo Miguel Cura Neves (2025-present): Evaluating large language models (LLMs) for classifying software vulnerability fixes using orthogonal defect classification (ODC).
• Ramyad Raadi (2025-present): Automating the software vulnerability collection process.

Former M.Sc. Students (Research)

• [MSI] Simão Cabral Sousa (2025-2026): Securing Containerized CI/CD Pipelines: An Empirical Comparison of CI/CD Platforms. Co-supervised with Charles Ferreira Gonçalves.
• [MEI] Hugo Sobral de Barros (2025-2026): Evaluating the Continuous Integration Server Ability to Deploy Vulnerable Applications in DevSecOps Software Development Lifecycle. Co-supervised with João Rodrigues de Campos.
• [MIACD] Constança Meneses Lima e Brito Correia (2025-2026): On the Use of Graph Neural Networks and Large Language Models to Detect Code Snippet Vulnerabilities. Co-supervised with Nuno Lourenço.
• [MSI] Oleksandr Yarotskyi (2024-2026): Leveraging Large Language Models for Trustworthiness Assessment of Web Applications. Role: co-supervisor; supervisor: João Rodrigues de Campos.
• [MECD] João Miguel Carmo Pino (2024-2026): On the Use of Historical Static Data to Detect Software Vulnerable Code. Co-supervised with João Rodrigues de Campos.
• [MSI] Luís Pedro Almendra Vieira (2024-2025): On the Use of Deep Graph Convolutional Neural Networks with Source Code Structures to Detect Vulnerable Software Code Units. Co-supervised with Nuno Lourenço.
• [MSI] Rui Filipe Tavares Mota (2023-2024): Addressing Limitations of Static Analysis Tools for Efficient Rapid Deployment Cycles.
• [MEI] João David Marques Santos Ribeiro (2021-2022): A Dashboard for Decision Support in Self-Adaptive Cloud Applications. Role: co-supervisor; supervisor: Nuno Antunes.
• [MEI] João Miguel Namorado Clímaco Henggeler Antunes (2020-2021): Building and Evaluating Software Vulnerability Datasets: Combining Static Analysis Alerts and Software Metrics to Automatically Detect Vulnerable C/C++ Functions. Role: co-supervisor; supervisor: Marco Vieira.

Former M.Sc. Students (Industry Internship)

• [MEI] Artur Yurchuk (2025-2026): Self-Learning System and Personalization for Conversations with AI Agents. Internship at Wit Software
• [MEI] Leonardo Miguel da Silva (2025-2026): Feature Flags as Enablers of Progressive Delivery. Internship at Constellation Automotive Group
• [MSI] Luís Rafael Albuquerque Figueiredo (2025-2026): Automating DAST for Modern Web and API Security. Internship at Intermedia
• [MSI] Alexandre da Silva van Velze (2024-2025): Securing the Machine Learning Development Lifecycle. Internship at Altice Labs
• [MEI] Gonçalo Franja Ferreira (2024-2025): Software Quality and Compliance: A Backend Solution for Aggregating and Analyzing Quality Metrics. Internship at Void Software

Former B.Sc. Students

• Flor Faria de Almeida Casaleiro (2024-2025): Maintaining and Evolving the Software Vulnerability Database Dashboard.
• João Rafael do Rosário Henriques (2022-2024): Expanding a Dataset of Software Vulnerabilities with Static Information.