Dr. Túlio Albuquerque Pascoal
Welcome!
I am a Cybersecurity & Privacy specialist with strong R&D background and several years of experience in the private, public, and corporate sectors.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science specialized in Security & Privacy from the Université du Luxembourg in 2022. The focus of my doctoral research was on the creation of secure and privacy-preserving federated workflows for collaborative Genome-Wide Association Studies to (i) secure sharing of genome data and (ii) safe releases of studies' statistics while ensuring the privacy of participants safeguarded against recovery and membership attacks assuming the presence of collusion among federation members. I am very proud of the fact that during my Ph.D. I managed to publish three scientific papers at A/A* CORE at renowned conferences/journals.
I received my Master's and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil.
From September 2013 to December 2014, I was an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto as part of an international scholarship sponsored by the Brazilian government.
During that time (from May 2014 to August 2014), I also worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Big Data University (current Cognitive Class).
My topics of interest are: Network and System Security, Software-Defined Networking, Pen-testing, Secure and Privacy-preserving data sharing/processing protocols, Privacy-enhancing Technologies (PETs), Genomic Data Privacy, and Artificial Intelligence.
News
22/05/2023 - Our paper "Securing Software-Defined Networks Through Adaptive Moving Target Defenses Capabilities" has been accepted for publication at the Springer Nature Journal of Network and Systems Management.
26/12/2022 - Our paper "An Adaptive Moving Target Defense Approach for Software-Defined Networking Protection" has been accepted for publication at the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2023, which will be held in Miami, USA.
16/12/2022 - I officially received my Ph.D. degree diploma at the Ph.D. graduation ceremony of the Université du Luxembourg.
26/08/2022 - I defended my Ph.D. thesis titled "Secure, privacy-preserving and practical collaborative Genome-Wide Association Studies" at the Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg. I am pretty satisfied with the achievements (three A core-ranking papers + thesis) during these last four years of research, where I started from scratch in the field of genomics and privacy.
10/08/2022 - Our paper "Distributed and secure assessment for privacy-preserving releases of Genome-Wide Association Studies" has been accepted for publication at 23rd ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2022), which will be held in Québec City, Canada.
01/08/2022 - Our paper "I-GWAS: Privacy-preserving Interdependent Genome-Wide Association Studies" has been accepted for publication at Proceeding on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs 2023), which will be held in Laussane, Switzerland.
30/07/2022 - Our paper "Usando particionamento de switches para mitigar o problema de aclopamento em SDN" has been accepted for publication at the XL SBrT 2022, which will be held in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
20/06/2022 - Our paper "Towards Practical Genome-Wide Association Studies: Overview and Challenges" has been accepted for publication at the PETS'22 Workshop on Interdependent and Multi-party Privacy, which will be held in Sydney, Australia.
On the media:
EURAXESS success history:
https://www.euraxess.lu/luxembourg/2getthere-túlio-pascoalEnhancing privacy for genomic data: https://wwwfr.uni.lu/snt/news_events/enhancing_privacy_for_genomic_data
Cybernetic safety startups close deals with accelerators: https://www.rnp.br/en/news/cybernetic-safety-startups-close-deals-accelerators
Publications
Conference Proceedings
Silva, F., Pascoal, T., Neto, E., Nunes, R., Souza, C. Neto, A. "An Adaptive Moving Target Defense Approach for Software-Defined Networking Protection". In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2023 (NOMS 2023). [10.1109/NOMS56928.2023.10154278]
Pascoal, T., Decouchant, J., Voelp, M. "Secure and Distributed Assessment of Privacy-Preserving GWAS releases". In 23rd ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference 2022. [ARXIV PREPRINT] [10.1145/3528535.3565253]
Albuquerque, Francisco., Pascoal, T., Nigam, V., Fonseca, I. E. "Using the partitioning of switches to mitigate the coupling problem in Software-Defined Networking" (In Portuguese). "Usando particionamento de switches para mitigar o problema de aclopamento em SDN". In XL SBrT 2022. [10.14209/sbrt.2022.1570812738]
Nunes, R., Pascoal, T., Souza, C., Neto, E., Silva, F. "An adaptive approach for SDN protection using Moving Target Defense" (In Portuguese). "Abordagem Adaptativa para Protecao de Redes SDN Utilizando Moving Target Defense". In XL SBRC 2022. [10.5753/sbrc.2022.222378]
Souza, C., Pascoal, T., Neto, E., Filho, F. Silva, F. "Moving Target Defense for SDN protection" (In Portuguese). "MTD para Protecao de Redes SDN". In X ENCOM 2020. [ENCOM2020]
Pascoal, T., Dantas, Y. G., Fonseca, I. E., Nigam, V. "Slow TCAM Exhaustion DDoS Attack". In IFIP SEC (2017). [10.1007/978-3-319-58469-0_2]
Pascoal, T., Correa, J. H. G., Nigam, V., Fonseca, I. E. “A protection module against application-layer DoS attack: A quality of service and user experience analysis”. In SBRC 2017. [SBRC2017]
Pascoal, T., Correa, J. H. G., Nigam, V., Fonseca, I. E. “A module for defending application-layer DDoS attacks using selective strategies”. In SBRT 2016. [SBRT2016]
Pascoal, T., Brito, D., do Rêgo, T. “College dropout: a diagnostic using academic and socioeconomic data”. In SBIE 2016. [SBIE2016]
Pascoal, T., Brito, D., do Rêgo, T. “An approach for prediction of computer science students’ performance on programming languages courses”. In TISE 2015. [TISE2015]
Brito, D., Pascoal, T., Araujo, J., Lemos, O., do Rêgo, T. “Identifying first-year undergraduate students evasion risks through data mining techniques”. In TISE 2015. [TISE2015_2]
Journals
Silva, F., Neto, E., Nunes, R., Souza, C. Neto, A., Pascoal, T. "Securing Software-Defined Networks Through Adaptive Moving Target Defense Capabilities". In Journal of Network and Systems Management (2023). [10.1007/s10922-023-09746-z] [PDF]
Pascoal, T., Decouchant, J., Boutet A., Voelp, M. "I-GWAS: Privacy-Preserving Interdependent Genome-Wide Association Studies". In PoPETs 2023. [ARXIV PREPRINT] [10.56553/popets-2023-0026]
Pascoal, T., Decouchant, J., Boutet A., Verissimo, P. "DyPS: Dynamic, Private and Secure GWAS”. In PoPETs (2021). [10.2478/popets-2021-0025]
Pascoal, T., Fonseca, I. E., Nigam, V. "Slow denial-of-service attacks on software-defined networks". In Computer Networks Journal (2020). [10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107223]
Workshops
Pascoal, T., Decouchant, J., Voelp, M. "Towards practical Genome-Wide Association Studies: Overview and Challenges”. In PETS’22 Workshop on Interdependent and Multi-party Privacy. [IDP_PETS22]
Pascoal, T., Decouchant, J., Boutet A., Voelp, M. "Towards dynamic GWAS (DyPS: Dynamic, Private and Secure GWAS)”. In 8th International Workshop on Genome Privacy and Security (GenoPri’21). [GenoPri’21]
Ph.D. Thesis
Pascoal, T., "Secure, privacy-preserving and practical collaborative Genome-Wide Association Studies". Université du Luxembourg. Defended on 26/08/2022 in Luxembourg. [PhD-FSTM-2002-100_thesis]
Reviewer Activities
Journal of Applited Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (co-reviewer), 2022
Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2020 & 2021
IEEE Communications Letters, 2021 (2x)
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2021
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2020
International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 2020
Journal of Genetics and Genome Research, 2020
International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, 2020
ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Sofware, 2020
WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice, 2019
Teaching Activities
Teaching Assistant (Computer Networks, Bachelor)
Federal University of Paraiba, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, 2016Undergraduate Tutor (Formal Languages and Automata, Bachelor)
Federal University of Paraiba, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, 2013
Fellowship, Honors & Awards
Distinguised Paper Award, XL SBRC 2022 [PDF]
Start-Up Brazil Program, Brazil, 2018
Awarded a fund of R$ 186,000 for supporting the startup I co-founded Actions Security LTDPostgraduate Research Financing Program, Brazil, 2016 - 2018
Awarded a research fellowship that fully financed my Master's degree studiesScientific Initiation Scholarship Program, Brazil, 2015 - 2016
Awarded a fellowship to conduct research activities during my Bachelor's degreeInternational Scholarship Program, Toronto, Canada, 2013 - 2014
Awarded a scholarship that financed my studies abroad during my Bachelor's degree