João Miguel Lourenço Ribeiro

João Ribeiro

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	01-08-2024
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Group:	Security and Quantum Information - Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54

http://www.cienciavitae.pt/E31B-CAAA-A2CC

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-9870-0501

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04-09-2025

Our researcher João Ribeiro wins a €1.5 Million ERC Starting Grant

The European Research Council (ERC) has just released the results of this year’s Starting Grants. João Ribeiro is one of the winners of his LESYNCH project (Limits and Efficiency of Coding Against Synchronization Errors), which enables him to take his research to the next level in the field of Security and Quantum Information.

15-05-2025

FCT Announces Provisional Results of Exploratory Projects under the CMU, MIT, and UT Austin Portugal Programs

Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) is among the four research institutions recognized in this call, with two awarded projects in the field of Quantum Communications, one project led by the researcher João Ribeiro, and another, coordinated by the principal investigator Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro:

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Imperial College of London, 01-06-2021

Affiliations

Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-08-2024, Assistant Professor

Expertise Topics

Cryptography
Coding theory
Information theory

Publications

3Papers in Journals

D. Doron, J. M. Mosheiff, N. Resch, J. Ribeiro, List-Recovery of Random Linear Codes Over Small Fields, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 71, No. 12, pp. 9548 - 9562, December, 2025 | BibTex
D. Doron, J. Ribeiro, Nearly-Linear Time Seeded Extractors With Short Seeds, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 71, No. 11, pp. 9028 - 9054, November, 2025 | BibTex
N. Boddu, V. Goyal, R. Jain, J. Ribeiro, Split-State Non-Malleable Codes and Secret Sharing Schemes for Quantum Messages, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 2838 - 2871, April, 2025 | BibTex

1Papers in Conferences

J. Ribeiro, Efficient Distributed Randomness Generation from Minimal Assumptions where PArties Speak Sequentially Once, IACR 44th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques EUROCRYPT, Madrid, Spain, Vol., pp. -, May, 2025 | BibTex

Projects

Currently running projects3

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
CODEFHE	Fully-Homomorphic Encryption from Post-Quantum Code-Based Assumptions	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia	01-10-2025	30-09-2026
LESYNCH	Limits and Efficiency of Coding Against Synchronization Errors	EU/Horizon Europe	01-02-2026	31-01-2031
PUFSeQure	Physical uncloneable functions for quantum secure multi-party computation	FCT	01-02-2025	31-07-2026

Other Contributions

2Conference Committees

IACR Theory of Cryptography Conference TCC, Technical Programme Committee, 2025
IACR Annual International Cryptology Conference CRYPTO, Technical Programme Committee, 2025

Related UN SDG

Activities from this researcher fall under the following United Nations Strategic Development Goals (SDGs):

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