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Hello! I am a PhD Candidate at the VUSec group at Vrije Universitiet Amsterdam, currently advised by Klaus von Gleissenthall. My research mostly focuses on the intersection of formal verification and security, with a particular interest in assembly language and type-systems.

I am currently working on a project that aims to bring zero-knowledge proofs to the world of binaries. It mostly involves providing a type-checking proof for typed binaries in zero-knowledge, by utilizing zkSNARK proofs. Our goal is to be able to provide safety proofs for proprietary applications, that are easy and fast to check by a end-user.

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Publications

Short Papers

zkTAL: Type Checking Assembly in Zero-Knowledge

Luís Ferreirinha, Klaus v. Gleissenthall

CompSys 2025

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Conference Papers

On the Path to Buffer Overflow Detection by Model Checking the Stack of Binary Programs

Luís Ferreirinha, Ibéria Medeiros

ENASE 2024

Talks

zkTAL: Type Checking Assembly in Zero-Knowledge

CompSys 2025, Utretch, The Netherlands

On the Path to Buffer Overflow Detection by Model Checking the Stack of Binary Programs

ENASE 2024, Angers, France

Education

MSc Informatics

University of Lisbon

Sept 2024

  • Removal of Vulnerabilities in Binary Code by Program Model Checking and Concolic Execution (Dissertation)

BSc Physics

University of Lisbon

Jul 2022

Minor in Informatics

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