About

João F. Ferreira is an associate professor at IST, University of Lisbon, and a researcher at INESC-ID. He co-leads the Software Reliability Lab. He coordinates the Automated Reasoning and Software Reliability area at INESC-ID. His work spans from empirical software engineering methods that can inform practitioners and direct future research, to formal methods that can verify the absence of certain types of bugs. For more details, see selected publications.

Selected Projects

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Reliable DevOps

Methods and tools for reliable infrastructure as code.

Smartbugs

Executional framework for running analysis tools on smart contracts.

Password Security

Tools and methods to improve password security.

Interactive Narratives

Tools and methods for computer-generated narratives.

FM Education

Tools, methods, and resources that support teaching formal methods.

Recent Posts

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InfraGov: New Funded Project on Reliable and Secure IT Infrastructure

I am very pleased to announce that we secured funding for the InfraGov project, a new research project funded to address critical challenges in the reliability and security of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) used in Public Administration.

InfraGov: New Funded Project on Reliable and Secure IT Infrastructure

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