About Me

I am Hugo Pereira, a PhD researcher in Computer Science at NOVA FCT — NOVA University Lisbon, and a member of the Computer Systems Group at NOVA LINCS.

My research focuses on Network Security and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - designing trusted, privacy-preserving systems and networks that make Internet communications harder to monitor, fingerprint, or block, without sacrificing performance or usability.

I am a Carnegie Mellon Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. scholar, on a joint doctoral track between NOVA FCT and Carnegie Mellon University that includes up to one year of research in the United States.

News

• Apr 2026 My doctoral research on online privacy & Internet security was featured in the NOVA FCT newsletter.
• Feb 2026 New preprint — Privocracy: Online Democracy through Private Voting is now available on arXiv.
• Jan 2026 My CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. scholarship was featured in the NOVA FCT website and LinkedIn.