Personal Presentation

Currently working as a researcher on the thin line between hardware and software, João Pedro Dias has a BSc+MSc in Informatics and Computing Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP). He also has a Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering by the same university since 2022. He is an Invited Assistant Lecturer at FEUP since 2017, lecturing various courses ranging from Software Engineering to Operating Systems. He has co-supervised 5 MSc dissertations and participated as a Researcher in two projects at LIACC and INESC TEC (Porto, Portugal). He works in the area of Software Engineering, with a special interest in Design Patterns, Internet-of-Things, Security and Privacy with more than 20 published and indexed papers. In his leisure time, he can be found participating in Capture The Flag competitions, messing around with Software-defined Radio, doing web development, learning how to reverse engineer hardware and photographing while wandering in nature.