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Ciao!
I am a Software Research Engineer/Scientist in Security and Privacy.

My work focuses mainly on Confidential Computing and Distributed Systems, to leverage hardware-based security technologies (e.g., Intel SGX, Intel TDX, TPMs) to preserve confidentiality and integrity of code and data, and to enable informed trust decisions. I have led technology transfers, projects and made extensive contributions to technologies such as:

• a trustworthy cloud object store to preserve document confidentiality in retrieval-augmented generation and to enable stateful confidential containers
• a trust coordination framework for managing security metadata and policies for microservices
• the One Attestation API to consolidate Intel SGX and TDX enhanced-privacy (EPID) and datacenter (DCAP) remote attestation primitives under one API — open-source on Github
• the Fabric Private Chaincode project, to preserve confidentiality for chaincodes (smart contracts) running on the Hyperledger Fabric enterprise blockchain — open-source on Github
• the Private Data Objects project, to enable multi-party auditable sharing of confidential data — open-source on Github

I completed my PhD studies in Computer Science at University of Lisbon (ULisboa) and at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where I was privileged to have two outstanding advisors: Prof. Nuno Neves (ULisboa) and Prof. Peter Steenkiste (CMU).