Rolando Martins is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP), currently focusing on secure distributed systems and privacy supporting infrastructure. He is a former member of the Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC), where he was involved in both Cloud Computing and Embedded Computing centers, and Parallel Data Lab (PDL) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). At the same time, he was also a computer research scientist at YinZcam, a spinoff from CMU that provided mobile applications for the NBA, NHL, NFL and MLS, where he was involved on cloud computing, big data, content management systems, security and video streaming. He is also a former research scientist within EFACEC’s transportation unit where he focused on the design and implementation of reliable real-time middleware for railroads systems.
He is currently the PI for Atlas, Trusted Autonomous Navigation, a P2030 RCI co-promotion project proposal with Bosch, that seeks to enhance current security and safety of autonomous vehicles, which is under evaluation. In the past, he was involved in P2020 Theia (co-promotation with Bosch), H2020 CyberSec4Eur, PI for P2020 COP in co-promotion with Talkdesk, co-pi for CMU-Portugal Angerona, and participated in CMU-Portugal Hyrax, H2020 NanoStima and CMU-Portugal TRONE.
He currently serves as member of the scientific council at FCUP and vice-chair IEEE CS Portugal Chapter, vice-director MSc in information security at FCUP, and vice-director of C3P (UP Cybersecurity and Privacy Centre). He is also the founder of SafeHelm (www.safehelm.com), an University of Porto spinoff dedicated to R&D, tech transfer and consulting for secure computing infrastructures, namely Cloud and Edge Computing, IoT and Blockchain. It currently is developing a virtualized open-source solution to power next generation AI applications and others.
He was a former consultant for Porto City Hall in their GDPR adoption, for nearly two years, having had responsibilities in overseeing their security implementation and processes in order to achieve compliance. He was the lead consultant for INESC-TEC in Efacec's transition to cloud computing, adoption of new cybersecurity policies and artificial intelligence. He is currently on INESC-TEC's technical advisory board for networking and infrastructure. Lastly, he is also consultant for security, cloud and mobile technology for Adyta, a leading security start-up in secure messaging and infrastructure.