Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio is an associate professor of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), which he joined in 2010. He is currently the Vice-Rector for the Digital Strategy, Information and Human Resources Management and the Data Protection Officer of UBI. He holds a 5-year B.Sc. in Mathematics/Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, obtained in 2005 and 2009 respectively.
He is an IEEE senior member, an ACM professional member and a researcher of the Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). His main research topics are information assurance and security, computer based simulation, and network traffic monitoring, analysis and classification. He has 90+ publications in the form of book chapters and papers in international peer-reviewed books, conferences and journals. He frequently reviews papers for IEEE, Springer, Wiley and Elsevier journals, and he is a member of the Technical Program Committees of flagship national and international workshops and conferences, such as ACM SAC, IEEE NCA, IFIPSEC or ARES. He often assists the European Commission in the evaluation of European projects or project proposals.