Awards and Outreach

An overview of honours, awards, outreach, and volunteer service.

Honours and Awards

2024

  • Best Poster Award, Department of Computer Science, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon For the poster “You do understand that people don’t trust technology?”: Explaining Trusted Execution Environments to Non-Experts.

  • CyLab Certificate of Recognition, Carnegie Mellon University In recognition of contributions to the CMU Security and Privacy Institute (CyLab) community.

2023

  • Huawei Seeds for the Future 2.0 Award In recognition of academic and personal achievements, including a monetary award of €5,000.

2021–2022

  • Outstanding Teaching Award, Instituto Superior Técnico For the academic years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.

2018–2021

  • Academic Merit Award, Instituto Superior Técnico Awarded for academic excellence in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Official awards page

Outreach and Volunteering

2024–Present

  • Operations Volunteer, ACM SIGPLAN-M Responsible for matching mentors with mentees.

  • Student Committee Member, INESC-ID Volunteer in operations and community engagement, organizing events and fostering collaboration across research groups. Focus on relationship-building, communication, and strengthening the research community.

2024–2025

  • Organizer, ELLIS Unit Symposium Responsible for organizing speakers, venue, and participants; moderator of round-table discussions.

2023–2024

  • Reviewer, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Responsible for reviewing conference submissions.

2023–Present

  • Student Seminar Committee Member, CMU CyLab Responsible for organizing the student seminar series.

2022–Present

  • Volunteer, Portuguese Red Cross Activities focused on the integration and education of vulnerable communities, including teaching programming skills to young refugees. https://www.cruzvermelha.pt

2021–Present

  • Volunteer, Project Adamastor Contributing to the creation and dissemination of high-quality EPUBs of public-domain Portuguese authors. https://projectoadamastor.org

2020–2022

  • Ambassador, SPEAK Organized multicultural events and promoted language education, tolerance, and integration of migrants. https://speak.social/

2017–2020

  • Mentor, Instituto Superior Técnico Mentorship Program Supported first-year students’ academic and social integration through peer mentoring.