Diana Vieira Fernandes is a PhD student in Engineering and Public Policy at Instituto Superior Técnico and Carnegie Mellon University under the CMU Portugal Program. She holds a Law Degree and a Master’s in Law and Management (NOVA Law School and NOVA SBE). Her research focuses on secure, distributed electricity markets in low-voltage networks.
I am a doctoral student currently working on the DAnon research project funded by CMU Portugal at INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico. I received my BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Técnico and specializing in Cyber Security and Distributed Systems. My main motivation is protecting users from censorship, privacy violations, and crime on the web.
Carolina Carreira, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University and IST, focuses on usable security. Her research interests include the usability of formal methods, the human aspects of software engineering, and privacy. Additionally, she actively contributes to the community by organizing seminars and actively participating in the SIGPLAN-M.
