Mafalda Ferreira

Welcome! I am a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, being kindly advised by professor Nuno Santos. I am a junior researcher at INESC-ID Lisbon and member of the Distributed Systems Group (GSD), as part of the SysSec team.

My current research is focused on GDPR compliance for web applications, more specifically, the detection and prevention of GDPR violations.

Previously, I received my MSc in Computer Science and Engineering at IST in 2021, under the guidance of professor Nuno Santos. My dissertation, entitled Building GDPR-Compliant Web Applications with RuleKeeper is available in the Publications section.

I have been a teaching assistant at IST, University of Lisbon since 2019. To learn more about my teaching activities, check my Teaching section.

News

Dec 13, 2022	Our paper on building GDPR-compliant web applications was accepted at S&P’23!
Sep 26, 2022	Visited Microsoft Research Lab, in Cambridge, and gave a talk about my ongoing work. Had a wonderful time and met a lot of interesting people .
Sep 6, 2022	Our poster A Systems Approach to GDPR Compliance-by-Design in Web Development Stacks was accepted at CCS’22! I will be presenting it on November 8-9.
Jul 1, 2022	Attended ENSD’22 in Évora, Portugal, where I presented a poster for my current research in GDPR compliance-by-design in web development stacks.

Selected Publications

ToR

Study of JavaScript Static Analysis Tools for Vulnerability Detection in Node.js Packages

Brito, Tiago, Ferreira, Mafalda, Monteiro, Miguel, Lopes, Pedro and 3 more authors

In IEEE Transactions on Reliability 2023

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@inproceedings{vulcan_tor,
  author = {Brito, Tiago and Ferreira, Mafalda and Monteiro, Miguel and Lopes, Pedro and Barros, Miguel and Santos, José Fragoso and Santos, Nuno},
  booktitle = {IEEE Transactions on Reliability},
  title = {Study of JavaScript Static Analysis Tools for Vulnerability Detection in Node.js Packages},
  year = {2023},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {1-16},
  doi = {10.1109/TR.2023.3286301},
}

S&P

RuleKeeper: GDPR-Aware Personal Data Compliance for Web Frameworks

Ferreira, Mafalda, Brito, Tiago, Santos, José Fragoso, and Santos, Nuno

In Proceedings of 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P’23) May 2023

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@inproceedings{ferreira_sp23,
  author = {Ferreira, Mafalda and Brito, Tiago and Santos, José Fragoso and Santos, Nuno},
  title = {RuleKeeper: GDPR-Aware Personal Data Compliance for Web Frameworks},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P'23)},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1109/SP46215.2023.00058},
  pages = {1014-1031},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}

CCS

Poster: A Systems Approach to GDPR Compliance-by-Design in Web Development Stacks

Ferreira, Mafalda, Brito, Tiago, Santos, José Fragoso, and Santos, Nuno

In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’22) Nov 2022

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@inproceedings{ferreira_ccs22,
  author = {Ferreira, Mafalda and Brito, Tiago and Santos, José Fragoso and Santos, Nuno},
  title = {Poster: A Systems Approach to GDPR Compliance-by-Design in Web Development Stacks},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'22)},
  year = {2022},
  isbn = {9781450394505},
  doi = {10.1145/3548606.3563521},
}

Contact

E-mail: mafalda.baptista@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Address:
Room 501, INESC-ID
Rua Alves Redol 9
1000-029 Lisbon, Portugal