Lourenço Alves Pereira Júnior

Lourenço Alves Pereira Júnior

Assistant Professor

Aeronautics Institute of Technology

Biography

Greetings! I am a Cybersecurity and Computer Systems Assistant Professor at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ita.br). My expertise lies in Systems Security, designing and implementing attack and defense solutions against advanced persistent threats. My research focuses on advancing state-of-the-art cybersecurity techniques and practices to make the digital world safer.

We heavily employ Machine Learning and Data Science in our projects with a focus on the following domains:

  • Malware analysis: static, adversarial, and characterization for Windows, Android, and Phishing.

  • Next-generation IDS: utilizing advanced features like Wi-Fi CSI, advanced kernel logging systems, and ebpf to strengthen protection mechanisms (host and network) using anomaly- and signature-based approaches.

  • Exploitation of systems at scale: encompassing IoT (also industrial) systems, SOHO Wi-Fi routers, and Smart-TVs.

  • Advanced threat modeling of autonomous cars networking technologies (WAVE, C-V2X, and 5G/6G) for potential exploitation and protection.

  • Development of security functionalities: Windows Processing Admission Driver, packet filtering, and core IPsec for lightweightIP and mTCP stacks.

I co-authored the CVE-2022-46552.

Interests
  • Cybersecurity
  • Malware analysis
  • Networked Systems, 5G/6G
  • Internet of Things
  • Linux Kernel, FreeRTOS, lwIP
  • ESP32, ESP-IDF, Nuttx
Education
  • PhD in Computer and Mathematical Sciences, 2016

    University of Sao Paulo

  • MSc in Computer and Mathematical Sciences, 2010

    University of Sao Paulo

  • BSc (hons) in Computer Science, 2007

    University of Alfenas

Recent Publications

Selected papers

Please visit my Google Scholar Profile for an updated list of published papers. See also my CV Lattes (in BR portuguese).
(2022). Implementação de um filtro de pacotes inteligente para dispositivos de Internet das Coisas. In SBRC 2022.

PDF Cite Code Project

(2022). T800: ferramenta de firewall e benchmark para IoT. In SBRC 2022 - Salao de Ferramentas.

PDF Code Project

(2021). Enumeração de sistemas operacionais e serviços de firmwares de roteadores sem-fio. In SBSeg 2021.

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(2021). An End-to-End Framework for Machine Learning-Based Network Intrusion Detection System. In ACCESS.

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Service

He acts as a reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE LATIN AMERICA TRANSACTIONS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, JNSM, Vehicular Communications (Elsevier), ACM Transaction on Internet Technologies, MDPI SENSORS, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. In addition, he has been in TPC of domestic workshops and congresses since 2016: SBSeg’2022, SBRC’2021/2022, WGRS, WCGA, WTG. Moreover, recently, he has been included in GLOBECOM 2022’s TPC.

Other activities

[SBRC/WTG] Creator of the Workshop on Scientific Initiation and Graduation Works in the Bazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC). Lourenço proposed and conceived the workshop, serving as a scientific entry venue for undergraduate students. Domestic-wide contribution impact.

[IFSP/WTI] Creator of the IFSP IT Workshop. Statewide contribution impact.

[LARC] ITA’s representative of ITA at the National Laboratory of Computer Networks (LARC).

Contact

  • ljr [at] ita br
  • +55 12 3947 6946
  • 50 Mal Eduardo Gomes, PLZ, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP 12228-900
  • Computer Science Block, room 123
  • Monday 10:00 to 13:00
    Wednesday 09:00 to 10:00