IEEE CSF 2024 Test of Time Award for the seminal work on the g-vulnerability framework for the quantification of information flow, 2024. Our IEEE CSF 2012 paper “Measuring Information Leakage Using Generalized Gain Functions” won a Test-of-Time Award at the 37th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (IEEE CSF 2024).
Recipient of the 9th Google Latin America Research Awards, with the Ph.D. student Gabriel Henrique Nunes, 2022. Gabriel Henrique Nunes is a Ph.D. student in co-tulle between UFMG, under my supervision, and Macquarie University, under the supervision of Prof. Annabelle McIver. The 9th Google Latin America Research Awards (2022) refers to the project “A QIF-Based Robust and Explainable Framework for Assessing Privacy Risks of Large Data Releases”.
Winning paper in the NSA 3rd Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, 2014. Our IEEE CSF 2014 paper “Additive and Multiplicative Notions of Leakage and Their Capacities” was awarded the first prize in the Third NSA Competition for Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper, through which the Direction of Research of the American National Security Agency (NSA) recognizes the best scientific cybersecurity works published in the year of 2014. This is joint work with Kostas Chatzikokolakis, Annabelle McIver, Carrol Morgan, Catuscia Palamidessi, and Geoffrey Smith.
Best thesis in Computer Science, and finalist of the Prix de Thèse Paris Tech, 2011. My Ph.D. dissertation, “Formal approaches to information hiding: An analysis of interactive systems, statistical disclosure control, and refinement of specifications” was a finalist of the Prix de Thèse ParisTech 2011, granted by the Paris Institute of Technology (ParisTech), representing the best thesis in Computer Science among the 632 theses defended that year of 2011 in 12 of the most prestigious Grande Écoles in France.
First place in CEFET-MG’s XVIII META competition, 2000. While obtaining my technical high-school degree in Industrial Informatics from CEFET-MG, my team of students developed the first point-to-point information system for public transportation in the state of Minas Gerais, the system BHBusca, for which we received the first prize in the XVII META competition (“Mostra Específica de Trabalhos e Aplicações”).