Summary
Carolina Carreira is a PhD student and graduate researcher split between Carnegie Mellon University and Instituto Superior Técnico, specializing in the intersection of usable security and formal verification with a focus on password managers. With eight years of experience spanning research, teaching, and industry internships, she blends rigorous formal methods with human-centered security design to make verification practical for end users. Her work on the PassCert project and contributions to usable security research reflect an interest in how emerging domains like DeFi interact with user security. She also brings hands-on implementation experience from SSO, web stacks, and backend development, and uniquely pairs technical depth with a background in violin studies, highlighting a disciplined, detail-oriented approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
Curso Básico, Violino, Curso Básico, Violino at Conservatório Regional de Castelo Branco
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Licenciatura, Engenharia Informática e de Computadores, Licenciatura, Engenharia Informática e de Computadores at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, Spanish