About me

Ricardo Chaves is an Associate professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Lisbon/IST and a researcher at the High-performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS) of INESC-ID working on hardware for security on embedded and user oriented systems. He received his Ph.D. degree, in 2007, in electrical and computer engineering from TUDelft and from the University of Lisbon in a joint PhD program between the two universities. He's PhD research work was focused on the design of a Secure Computing Module (SCM) on reconfigurable systems.

His research interests are focused on cryptography systems, reconfigurable hardware architectures, and on embedded and user oriented systems. He is also involved in several European and national projects related to these topics. He is also an HiPEAC and IEEE senior member.