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Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio is an associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), which he joined in 2010. Lectures subjects related with information assurance and (cyber)security, and computer based simulation, to graduate and undergraduate courses, namely to the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes in Computer Science and Engineering. He is currently the Pro-Rector for the Digital University and the Data Protection Officer of UBI. He is an instructor of the UBI Cisco Academy. Holds a 5-year B.Sc. degree in Mathematics/Computer Science and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering, obtained from UBI, Portugal, in 2005 and 2009 respectively. The Ph.D. work was performed in the enterprise environment of Nokia Siemens Networks Portugal S.A., through a Ph.D. grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He is an IEEE senior member, an ACM professional member and a researcher of the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). His main research topics are information assurance and security, computer based simulation, and network traffic monitoring, analysis and classification. He has 70+ publications in the form of book chapters and papers in international peer-reviewed books, conferences and journals. He frequently reviews papers for IEEE, Springer, Wiley and Elsevier journals. He is a member of the Technical Program Committees of flagship national and international workshops and conferences, such as ACM SAC, IEEE NCA, IFIPSEC or ARES. Currently serves as a Senior and Associate Editor for IEEE Access.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio

Citation names

  • Pedro R. M. Inácio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BF1D-BCA4-179F
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8221-0666
Google Scholar ID
5IINvyoAAAAJ
Researcher Id
I-1778-2019
Scopus Author Id
27168727400

Email addresses

  • prmi@ubi.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Universidade da Beira Interior, Convento de Sto. António, 6201-001, Covilhã, Covilhã, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2005/09 - 2009/12/17
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Doutoramento)
Major in Segurança da Informação
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"Study of the Impact of Intensive Attacks in the Self-Similarity Degree of the Network Tra¿c in Intra-Domain Aggregation Points" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2000/09 - 2005/07
Concluded
 Matemática/Informática (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/05 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2013 - 2021/05 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2010 - 2013 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/12/10 - Current Responsável de (ciber)Segurança da UBI no mandato 2021–2025 Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/07 - Current Encarregado pela a Proteção de Dados Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/06 - Current Pro-Rector Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/09 - Current Membro da Comissão de Ética da Universidade da Beira Interior Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/10 - 2021/09 Presidente do Departamento de Informática da UBI nos mandatos 2017/18–2018/19 e 2019/20–2020/21. Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2016 - 2017/09 Vice-Presidente do Departamento de Informática da UBI no mandato 2015/16–2016/17. Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/07/01 - 2026/06/30 Digitalización y resiliencia transfronteriza mediante el fomento de una zona CENCYL cibersegura (CIBERIA)
0192_CI- BERIA_3_E1
Researcher
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Ongoing
2024/07/01 - 2026/03/31 Centro de Competências em Cibersegurança da Região Centro (CCCCentro)
73/C19- i03/2023
Technical development
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Instituto de Telecomunicações
LA/P/0109/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0109/2020
Instituto de Telecomunicações Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022/02/28 - 2024/08/27 European Interactive Industrial Design Studio
2021-1-TR01-KA220-HED-000030439
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Gazi Üniversitesi, Turkey

Universitat d'Alacant, Spain
Erasmus Plus
Ongoing
2018/07/01 - 2022/01/31 Na Senda da Garantia de Segurança por Construção da Internet das Coisas
PTDC/CCI-COM/30657/2017
Instituto de Telecomunicações Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/10/01 - 2021/12/31 ENTRANCE - Enhancing the ENTRepreneurial mindset of non-business Academics in Europe.
022 KA203-63074741
Universidade da Beira Interior Núcleo de Estudos em Ciências Empresariais, Portugal
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Instituto de Telecomunicações
UID/EEA/50008/2019
Instituto de Telecomunicações Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Projecto Estratégico - LA 8 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2011
Instituto de Telecomunicações Lisboa, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008/01/01 - 2011/06/30 TRAMANET: Gestão do Tráfego e da Confiança em Redes Peer-to-Peer
PTDC/EIA/73072/2006
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Instituto de Telecomunicações Coimbra, Portugal

Siemens SA, Spain
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2006/07/01 - 2009/12/31 Segurança na Comunicação Remota Através de Redes de Acesso com Detecção de Intrusões em Pontos de Agregação Intra-domínio
SFRH/BDE/15592/2006
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Vigário, F.; Neto, M.; Fonseca, D.; Freire, M.M.; Inácio, P.R.M.. Assessment of the susceptibility to data manipulation of android games with in-app purchases. 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-18467-8_35
  2. Cordeiro, J.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Fernandes, D.A.B.. Fractal beauty in text. 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-23485-4_80
  3. Fernandes, D.A.B.; Soares, L.F.B.; Gomes, J.V.; Freire, M.M.; Inácio, P.R.M.. A Quick Perspective on the Current State in Cybersecurity. 2013.
    10.1016/B978-0-12-411474-6.00025-6
  4. Gomes, J.V.P.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Freire, M.M.; Pereira, M.; Monteiro, P.P.. The nature of peer-to-peer traffic. 2010.
    10.1007/978-0-387-09751-0_44
Book chapter
  1. Samaila, M.G.; Neto, M.; Fernandes, D.A.B.; Freire, M.M.; Inácio, P.R.M.. "Security challenges of the Internet of Things". 53-82. 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-50758-3_3
  2. Reza Memarian, M.; Fernandes, D.; Inácio, P.; Leppänen, V.; Conti, M.. "Applications of trusted computing in cloud context". 449-465. 2017.
  3. Samaila, M.G.; Sequeiros, J.B.F.; Correia, A.F.P.P.; Freire, M.M.; Inácio, P.R.M.. "A quick perspective on the current state of iot security a survey". 431-464. 2017.
  4. Fernandes, D.A.B.; Neto, M.; Soares, L.F.B.; Freire, M.M.; Inácio, P.R.M.. "On the self-similarity of traffic generated by network traffic simulators". 285-311. 2015.
  5. Soares, L.F.B.; Fernandes, D.A.B.; Gomes, J.V.; Freire, M.M.; Inácio, P.R.M.. "Cloud security: State of the art". 3-44. 2014.
Conference paper
  1. Vinicius Rios; Pedro Inacio; Damien Magoni; Mario Freire. "Detection of Slowloris Attacks using Machine Learning Algorithms". 2024.
    10.1145/3605098.3635919
  2. Francisco Chimuco; João B. F. Sequeiros; Tiago M. C. Simões; Freire, Mario M.; Pedro R. M. Inácio. "Secure Design and Development of Applications in the Cloud and Mobile Ecosystem". Paper presented in 14º Simpósio de Informática (INForum 2023), Porto, 2023.
    Published
  3. Carolina Lopes; C. A. N. Costa, Joana; João B. F. Sequeiros; Tiago M. C. Simões; Freire, Mario M.; Pedro R. M. Inácio. "Machine Learning Applied to Security Requirements Elicitation: Learning From Experience". Paper presented in 14º Simpósio de Informática (INForum 2021), Lisboa, 2021.
    Published
  4. Vanice Canuto Cunha; Arturo A. Z. Zavala; Pedro R. M. Inácio; Damien Magoni; Freire, Mario M.. "Classification of Encrypted Internet Traffic Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence and Euclidean Distance". 2020.
  5. Samaila, M.G.; José, M.Z.V.; Sequeiros, J.B.F.; Freire, M.M.; Inácio, P.R.M.. "Iot-HarpSecA: A framework for facilitating the design and development of secure IoT devices". 2019.
    10.1145/3339252.3340514
  6. Samaila, M.G.; Sequeiros, J.B.F.; Freire, M.M.; Inácio, P.R.M.. "Security threats and possible countermeasures in IoT applications covering different industry domains". 2018.
    10.1145/3230833.3232800
  7. Franqueira, V.N.L.; Mileva, A.; Leppänen, V.; Inácio, P.; Conti, M.; Lopes, R.H.C.; Lal, C.; Yu, C.-M.. "Welcome Message from the IoT-SECFOR Workshop Organizers". 2018.
  8. Filho, M.C.S.; Oliveira, R.L.; Monteiro, C.C.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Freire, M.M.. "CloudSim Plus: A cloud computing simulation framework pursuing software engineering principles for improved modularity, extensibility and correctness". 2017.
    10.23919/INM.2017.7987304
  9. Fernandes, D.A.B.; Neto, M.; Soares, L.F.B.; Freire, M.M.; Inácio, P.R.M.. "A tool for estimating the hurst parameter and for generating self-similar sequences". 2014.
  10. Fernandes, D.A.B.; Soares, L.F.B.; Freire, M.M.; Inacio, P.R.M.. "Randomness in virtual machines". 2013.
    10.1109/UCC.2013.57
  11. Soares, L.F.B.; Fernandes, D.A.B.; Freire, M.M.; Inacio, P.R.M.. "Secure user authentication in cloud computing management interfaces". 2013.
    10.1109/PCCC.2013.6742763
  12. Neto, M.; Gomes, J.V.; Freire, M.M.; Inacio, P.R.M.. "Real-time traffic classification based on statistical tests for matching signatures with packet length distributions". 2013.
    10.1109/LANMAN.2013.6528276
  13. Esteves, A.F.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Pereira, M.; Freire, M.M.. "On-line detection of encrypted traffic generated by mesh-based peer-to-peer live streaming applications: The case of goalbit". 2011.
    10.1109/NCA.2011.38
  14. Buchegger, S.; Chen, E.; Dini, P.; Falk, R.; Flegel, U.; Inácio, P.; Jakubowski, M.; et al. "Proceedings - 4th International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, SECURWARE 2010: Preface". 2010.
    10.1109/SECURWARE.2010.5
  15. Beirão, F.D.; Gomes, J.V.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Pereira, M.; Freire, M.M.. "NetOdyssey - A new tool for real-time analysis of network traffic". 2010.
    10.1109/NCA.2010.43
  16. Inácio, P.R.M.; Freire, M.M.; Pereira, M.; Gomes, J.V.P.; Monteiro, P.P.. "Zombie identification port". 2008.
    10.1109/ICIMP.2008.10
  17. Inácio, P.R.M.; Freire, M.M.; Pereira, M.; Monteiro, P.P.. "Analysis of the impact of intensive attacks on the self-similarity degree of the network traffic". 2008.
    10.1109/SECURWARE.2008.28
  18. Hajduczenia, M.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Da Silva, H.J.A.; Freire, M.M.; Monteiro, P.P.. "10G EPON standardization in IEEE 802.3av project". 2008.
    10.1109/OFC.2008.4528269
  19. Gomes, J.V.P.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Freire, M.M.; Pereira, M.; Monteiro, P.P.. "Analysis of Peer-to-Peer traffic using a behavioural method based on entropy". 2008.
    10.1109/PCCC.2008.4745138
Journal article
  1. Francisco T. Chimuco; Joao B. F. Sequeiros; Tiago M. C. Simoes; Mário M. Freire; Pedro R. M. Inácio. "Expediting the design and development of secure cloud-based mobile apps". International Journal of Information Security (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10207-024-00880-6.
    10.1007/s10207-024-00880-6
  2. Joana C. Costa; Tiago Roxo; Hugo Proença; Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio. "How Deep Learning Sees the World: A Survey on Adversarial Attacks & Defenses". IEEE Access (2024): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3395118.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3395118
  3. Tiago Roxo; Joana C. Costa; Pedro R. M. Inácio; Hugo Proença. "WASD: A Wilder Active Speaker Detection Dataset". IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (2024): https://doi.org/10.1109/TBIOM.2024.3412821.
    10.1109/TBIOM.2024.3412821
  4. Eduardo T. Assunção; Pedro D. Gaspar; Ricardo J. M. Mesquita; Maria P. Simões; António Ramos; Hugo Proença; Pedro R. M. Inacio. "Peaches Detection Using a Deep Learning Technique—A Contribution to Yield Estimation, Resources Management, and Circular Economy". Climate (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/cli10020011.
    10.3390/cli10020011
  5. Rui P. Pinto; Bruno M. C. Silva; Pedro R. M. Inacio. "A System for the Promotion of Traceability and Ownership of Health Data Using Blockchain". IEEE Access (2022): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3203193.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3203193
  6. Vinicius De Miranda Rios; Pedro R. M. Inacio; Damien Magoni; Mario M. Freire. "Detection and Mitigation of Low-Rate Denial-of-Service Attacks: A Survey". IEEE Access (2022): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3191430.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3191430
  7. Vanice Canuto Cunha; Arturo Zavala Zavala; Damien Magoni; Pedro R. M. Inacio; Mario M. Freire. "A Complete Review on the Application of Statistical Methods for Evaluating Internet Traffic Usage". IEEE Access (2022): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3227073.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3227073
  8. Joana Cabral Costa; Tiago Roxo; Joao B. F. Sequeiros; Hugo Proenca; Pedro R. M. Inacio. "Predicting CVSS Metric via Description Interpretation". IEEE Access (2022): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3179692.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3179692
  9. Vinícius de Miranda Rios; Pedro R.M. Inácio; Damien Magoni; Mário M. Freire. "Detection of reduction-of-quality DDoS attacks using Fuzzy Logic and machine learning algorithms". Computer Networks 186 (2021): 107792-107792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107792.
    10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107792
  10. João Amaral Santos; Pedro R. M. Inácio; Bruno Silva. "Towards the Use of Blockchain in Mobile Health Services and Applications". Journal of Medical Systems 45 2 (2021): 1-10. http://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/30398.
    10.1007/s10916-020-01680-w
  11. Musa G. Samaila; Joao B. F. Sequeiros; Tiago Simoes; Mario M. Freire; Pedro R. M. Inacio. "IoT-HarPSecA: A Framework and Roadmap for Secure Design and Development of Devices and Applications in the IoT Space". IEEE Access 8 (2020): 16462-16494. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2965925.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2965925
  12. Virginia N. L. Franqueira; Pedro Ricardo Morais Inacio; Aleksandra Mileva; Mauro Conti; Ville Leppanen; Raul H. C. Lopes. "Guest Editorial Special Issue on Security and Forensics of Internet of Things: Problems and Solutions". IEEE Internet of Things Journal 6 4 (2019): 6363-6367. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2019.2926635.
    10.1109/JIOT.2019.2926635
  13. Lopes, Inês G. F.; Morenets, Yuliya; Inácio, Pedro R. M.; Silva, Frutuoso. "Cyber-Detective: a game for cyber crime prevention". (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/7476.
  14. Almeida, Pedro de; Fazendeiro, Paulo; Inácio, Pedro R. M.. "Societal risks of the end of physical cash". (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/8201.
    10.1016/j.futures.2018.07.004
  15. Silva Filho, M.C.; Monteiro, C.C.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Freire, M.M.. "Approaches for optimizing virtual machine placement and migration in cloud environments: A survey". Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 111 (2018): 222-250. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85030853223&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jpdc.2017.08.010
  16. Fernandes, Diogo A. B.; Freire, Mario; Fazendeiro, Paulo; Inácio, Pedro R. M.. "Applications of artificial immune systems to computer security: A survey". (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/8203.
    10.1016/j.jisa.2017.06.007
  17. Fernandes, D.A.B.; Soares, L.F.B.; Gomes, J.V.; Freire, M.M.; Inácio, P.R.M.. "Security issues in cloud environments: A survey". International Journal of Information Security 13 2 (2014): 113-170. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84897106892&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10207-013-0208-7
  18. Gomes, J.V.; Inacio, P.R.M.; Pereira, M.; Freire, M.M.; Monteiro, P.P.. "Identification of peer-to-peer VoIP sessions using entropy and codec properties". IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 24 10 (2013): 2004-2014. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84883352782&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/TPDS.2012.316
  19. Gomes, J.V.; Inacio, P.R.M.; Pereira, M.; Freire, M.M.; Monteiro, P.P.. "Detection and classification of peer-to-peer traffic: A survey". ACM Computing Surveys 45 3 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880085721&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/2480741.2480747
  20. Gomes, J.V.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Pereira, M.; Freire, M.M.; Monteiro, P.P.. "Erratum: Exploring behavioral patterns through entropy in multimedia peer-to-peer traffic (Computer Journal (2012) 55:6 (740-755) DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxr127)". Computer Journal 55 10 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84867322847&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/comjnl/bxs109
  21. Inácio, P.R.M.; Freire, M.M.; Pereira, M.; Monteiro, P.P.. "Fast synthesis of persistent fractional Brownian motion". ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 22 2 (2012): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84859475773&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/2133390.2133395
  22. Gomes, J.V.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Pereira, M.; Freire, M.M.; Monteiro, P.P.. "Exploring behavioral patterns through entropy in multimedia peer-to-peer traffic". Computer Journal 55 6 (2012): 740-755. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84861899407&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1093/comjnl/bxr127
  23. Gomes, J.V.P.; Inácio, P.R.M.; Lakic, B.; Freire, M.M.; Da Silva, H.J.A.; Monteiro, P.P.. "Source traffic analysis". ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications 6 3 (2010): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77956384246&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/1823746.1823755
  24. Inácio, P.R.M.; Lakic, B.; Freire, M.M.; Pereira, M.; Monteiro, P.P.. "The design and evaluation of the Simple Self-Similar Sequences Generator". Information Sciences 179 23 (2009): 4029-4045. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70349101588&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ins.2009.08.002
  25. Hajduczenia, M.; Inacio, P.R.M.; Da Silva, H.J.A.; Freire, M.M.; Monteiro, P.P.. "On EPON security issues". IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 9 1 (2007): 68-83. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84892554157&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/COMST.2007.358972
  26. Inácio, P.R.M.; Hajduczenia, M.; Freire, M.M.; Da Silva, H.J.A.; Monteiro, P.P.. "Preamble encryption mechanism for enhanced privacy in Ethernet passive optical networks". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 4277 LNCS (2006): 404-414. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33845389861&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Correia, Acácio Filipe Pereira Pinto. "Towards Preemptive Text Edition using Topic Matching on Corpora". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/6368.
Activities

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020/09 - Current IEEE Access (2169-3536) IEEE
Distinctions

Award

2023 Prémio de Inovação Pedagógica para o ano letivo de 2022/23
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2015 Prémio OpenMind ESEGUR — Mentor da equipa
2014 Excelência na Instrução e Anos de Serviço na Academia de Redes CISCO
2006 Distinção de Melhor Aluno pela melhor classificação final na licenciatura
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2005 Bolsas e Prémios de Mérito por ser o melhor estudante em todos os anos da licenciatura em Matemática/Informática
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Other distinction

2023 Convidado para Editor Sénior da IEEE Access
IEEE, United States