Carolina Carreira is a dual-degree PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University and Instituto Superior Técnico, supported by the CMU Portugal Program. Her research focuses on the intersection of usable security, software verification, and human factors in computing systems. Carolina is affiliated with the CMU Security and Privacy Institute (CyLab) and INESC-ID’s Automated Reasoning and Software Reliability Group. She has published on topics such as password manager usability, contract-based software engineering, and trusted execution environments.

Interests
  • Usable Security
  • Formal Methods
  • Software Verification
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Security Communication
  • Trusted Computing
Education
  • PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, 2022–

    Carnegie Mellon University & IST, University of Lisbon

  • MSc in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, 2021

    Instituto Superior Técnico

  • BSc in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, 2016

    Instituto Superior Técnico

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