Nuno Santos
Phone: +351 21 3100 213
Distributed, Parallel and Secure Systems
INESC-ID Lisbon
Rua Alves Redol 9, Room 503
1000-029 Lisbon, Portugal
Bio
I am Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon. Besides, I serve as a senior researcher at INESC-ID Lisbon, where I'm also an active member of the Distributed, Parallel and Secure Systems (DPSS) group. I lead the SysSec team within this group, focusing on systems security research. I received my Ph.D. degree in November 2013 from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in affiliation with Saarland University. My research was carried out under the supervision of Rodrigo Rodrigues and Krishna P. Gummadi. In the summer of 2010, I was an intern at Microsoft Research Redmond. There, I was extremely fortunate to work with Himanshu Raj, Stefan Saroiu, and Alec Wolman. In 2018, I spent a sabbatical at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. During my tenure, I worked with the Systems and Network Security Group (VUSec), under the leadership of Herbert Bos.
Research & Teaching
My research interests lie in the field of computer and networked systems security. To learn more about my research and teaching activities, please follow these links: research, teaching.
Selected Publications
| IEEE Transactions on Reliability 2023 |
Study of JavaScript Static Analysis Tools for Vulnerability Detection in Node.js Packages Tiago Brito, Mafalda Ferreira, Miguel Monteiro, Pedro Lopes, Miguel Barros, José Fragoso Santos, Nuno Santos [paper] |
| S&P 2023 |
RuleKeeper: GDPR-Aware Personal Data Compliance for Web Frameworks Mafalda Ferreira, Tiago Brito, José Fragoso Santos, Nuno Santos [paper] |
| USENIX Security 2022 |
ReZone: Disarming TrustZone with TEE Privilege Reduction David Cerdeira, José Martins, Nuno Santos, Sandro Pinto [paper] |
| SIGMOD 2022 |
Secure and Policy-Compliant Query Processing on Heterogeneous Computational Storage Architectures Harshavardhan Unnibhavi, David Cerdeira, Antonio Barbalace, Nuno Santos, Pramod Bhatotia [paper] |
| NDSS 2021 |
FlowLens: Enabling Efficient Flow Classification for ML-based Network Security Applications Diogo Barradas, Nuno Santos, Luís Rodrigues, Salvatore Signorello, Fernando Ramos, André Madeira [paper] |
| CCS 2020 |
Poking a Hole in the Wall: Efficient Censorship-Resistant Internet Communications by Parasitizing on WebRTC Diogo Barradas, Nuno Santos, Luís Rodrigues, Vítor Nunes [paper] [code] [talk] [teaser] [poster] |
| S&P 2020 |
SoK: Understanding the Prevailing Security Vulnerabilities in TrustZone-assisted TEE Systems David Cerdeira, Nuno Santos, Pedro Fonseca, Sandro Pinto [paper] |
| ACM Computing Surveys 2019 |
Demystifying Arm TrustZone: A Comprehensive Survey Sandro Pinto, Nuno Santos [pdf] |
| USENIX Security 2018 | Effective Detection of Multimedia Protocol Tunneling using Machine Learning Diogo Barradas, Nuno Santos, Luís Rodrigues [paper] [code] |
| PoPETS 2017 | DeltaShaper: Enabling Unobservable Censorship-resistant TCP Tunneling over Videoconferencing Streams Diogo Barradas, Nuno Santos, Luís Rodrigues [paper] [code] |
| ASPLOS 2014 | Using ARM TrustZone to Build a Trusted Language Runtime for Mobile Applications Nuno Santos, Himanshu Raj, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman [paper] |
| USENIX Security 2012 | Policy-Sealed Data: A New Abstraction for Building Trusted Cloud Services Nuno Santos, Rodrigo Rodrigues, Krishna P. Gummadi, Stefan Saroiu [paper] [slides] |
| HotCloud 2009 | Towards Trusted Cloud Computing Nuno Santos, Krishna P. Gummadi, Rodrigo Rodrigues [paper] [slides] |
Recent, current, and upcoming service
- USENIX Security 2024, 2023: Program Committee
- CCS 2023, 2022, 2021: Program Committee
- ASIACCS 2023, 2014: Program Committee
- INFORUM 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015: Program Committee
- DINPS @ ICDCS 2022: Program Committee
- BlockTEE @ DisCoTec 2022: Program Committee
- DPSC 2022, 2021, 2020: Program Committee
- CCGrid 2021: Program Committee
- DI2F @ IFIP Networking 2021: Organization Committee
- Eurosys 2021: Doctoral Workshop Committee
- Middleware 2020: Doctoral Symposium Committee
- SECRYPT 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016: Program Committee
- ISOC.PT ANRW 2020: Program Committee
- CRYPTACUS Training School 2018: Organization Committee
- INFORUM 2017: Track Co-Chair
- INFORUM 2016: Track Chair
- TRUDEVICE Training School 2014: Organization Committee
- OSDI 2014 Poster Session: Program Committee