Supervision

Graduate and undergraduate research supervision by Ricardo Custódio.

Supervising students and helping to educate new researchers has been one of the central components of my academic career.

I have supervised research at undergraduate, Master’s and PhD levels, primarily in information security, cryptography, digital signatures, digital identity, electronic documents, and related areas.

This section is being developed as a historical record of students, research topics, dissertations, theses, and the publications and projects that resulted from this work.

Current Students

PhD Students

Current PhD students will be added here.

Master’s Students

Current Master’s students will be added here.

Undergraduate Students

Current undergraduate researchers will be added here.

Former Students

PhD

This section will contain completed PhD supervision, including:

  • student;
  • thesis title;
  • year;
  • co-supervisors;
  • research area;
  • associated publications;
  • software and datasets, when available.

Historical records are being consolidated.

Master’s

This section will contain completed Master’s dissertations and their associated research outputs.

Historical records are being consolidated.

Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate research has played an important role in introducing students to scientific research and frequently provided the foundation for subsequent Master’s and PhD work.

Historical records are being consolidated.

Research Lineage

Academic supervision is more than a list of completed theses and dissertations.

Over time, students participate in research groups, collaborate with one another, become co-authors, continue to graduate studies, and in some cases become researchers and supervisors themselves.

One of the objectives of this archive is therefore to document this academic lineage and the evolution of the research topics developed within the group.

Research Areas

Student research has included topics such as:

  • information security;
  • cryptography and cryptographic protocols;
  • digital signatures;
  • public key infrastructure;
  • electronic documents;
  • digital identity;
  • finite-field arithmetic;
  • blockchain technologies;
  • post-quantum cryptography;
  • artificial intelligence and security.

From Supervision to Research

Many dissertations and theses have resulted in scientific publications, software, prototypes, and research projects.

As this archive is consolidated, student records will be connected to the corresponding:

Academic Genealogy

A future extension of this section will provide a visual representation of the academic genealogy associated with my supervision, showing connections among students, research topics, publications, and subsequent academic careers.