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About Me

• Associate Professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Department (DEI) at Instituto Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon
• Senior Researcher with the Distributed Parallel and Secure Systems of INESC-ID Lisboa.
• Visiting Researcher in IBM Research Europe - Zurich Lab with the Hybrid Cloud Research Department, in the context of the CloudStars project (Feb-Apr 2023)
• Member of the Capstone Committee of IST (2025-)
• Member of the Scientific Council of IST (2023-2024)
• Senior Member of the IEEE, Computer Society.
• Member of the ACM and ACM EuroSys.

Research Interests

Distributed systems, Virtual machines, Cloud and Grid computing, Data replication, Garbage collection, Peer-to-peer systems, Mobile middleware

Teaching (Undergraduate)

• Cloud Computing and Virtualization (CNV) at MEIC, METI and MECD
  

Teaching (Graduate)

• Operating Systems, Virtualization and Cloud Computing (OSVCC) at PhD (PDEIC)
• Advanced Virtualization Techniques (TAVM) at PhD (PDEIC)
  
• Outreach and Teaching Skills at PhD (PDEIC)
  

Homepage at IST

Recent News and Results

• Nominated for Best Researcher Award for 2019 at INESC-ID Lisboa.

Publications

Updated publication list at INESC-ID Database

Publications at DBLP (partial)
Publications at Google Scholar
Publications at ResearchGate (partial)

Profile at ORCID
Profile at ResearcherID
Profile at Scopus

Projects

CloudStars, EU MCSA (Local Coordinator@INESC-ID)
novaVM, FCT (Coordinator)
MoTiV, EU H2020 (Local Coordinator@INESC-ID)
ContexTWA, FCT (Local Coordinator@INESC-ID)
CloudForEurope, EU FP7 (Local Coordinator@INESC-ID)
PROSOPON, FCT (Coordinator)
TIMBUS, EU FP7 (PhD Team Member@INESC-ID)
Synergy, FCT (Local Coordinator@INESC-ID)
RepComp, FCT (Local Coordinator@INESC-ID)
GINGER, FCT (Coordinator)

Students

PhD Students (as Single/Main Supervisor @ IST):

• Marco Antonio Colombo da Silva. Ontology-based solution for assisted application of Privacy by Design in DLT networks. ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo / INESC-ID Lisboa (joint supervision with Rodolfo Meneguette, USP). (2025)


• Miguel E. Coimbra. Graph Processing: Distributed Frameworks, Approximations and Compact Data Structures. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (joint supervision with Alexandre Francisco). (2021)


• Pradeeban Kathiravelu. Software-Defined Systems for Network-Aware Service Composition and Workflow Placement Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa / UcL - Université catholique de Louvain (joint supervision with Peter Van Roy, UcL). (2019)


• Sérgio Ricardo de Oliveira Esteves. Techniques for Enhancing the Performance of Data-intensive Management Systems. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (joint supervision with João Nuno Silva). (2018)


• Emmanouil Dimogerontakis. Internet Sharing in Community Networks. UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (joint supervision with Leandro Navarro, UPC). (2017)


• Mennan Selimi. On the Service Placement in Community Network Micro-Clouds. UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (joint supervision with Felix Freitag, UPC). (2017)


• Leila Sharifi. Energy-aware Service Provisioning in P2P-assisted Cloud Ecosystems. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa / UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (joint supervision with Felix Freitag, UPC). (2016)


• Luís Pina. Practical Dynamic Software Updating, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (co-supervision with Michael Hicks, Univ. Maryland College Park). (2016)


• José Manuel de Campos Lages Garcia Simão. Economics-inspired Adaptive Resource Allocation and Scheduling for Cloud Environments, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. (2015)


• João Nuno de Oliveira e Silva. New Environments for Parallel Computing and Simulations. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. (2011)

PhD Students (as Co-Supervisor @ IST):

• Ana Chalaça Gil. Digital Heritage of Architectural Heritage: Guidelines for documentation through a HeritageBIM library consisting of generic heritage objects. The Serlian cloisters of Lisbon's conventual architecture as case study. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Co-Supervisor with Ana Tomé, IST; Maria Raquel Henriques da Silva, FCSH-UNL). (2023)


• André Filipe Pessoa Negrão. Interest Aware Consistency Management and Cloud Aware Resource Provisioning for Distributed Interactive Applications. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Co-Supervisor with Paulo Ferreira, IST). (2016)

MSc Students

Complete List of Supervisions available here

Service

• INFORUM 2023 (Program Chair with João Leitão, New University of Lisbon)
• Vice-Head of Department, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Academic Matters (2021-2022)
• Program co-Chair for ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2021
• Scientific Coordinator, Distributed Parallel and Secure Systems Research Area of INESC-ID Lisboa (2020-2021).
• Coordinator, Master of Science programme in Information Systems and Computer Engineering (MEIC) at the Alameda and Taguspark IST campi (2017-2020)
• IST Pedgagogical Council (2019-2020)
• 18th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering 2015 (Program Chair with Christian Plessl and Guojing Cong)
• INFORUM 2015 (Program Chair with Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto)
• Group Manager (2014-2015), Distributed Systems Group (INESC-ID)
  
• Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing (Coordination Team at IST)
  
• Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing (Coordination Team at IST)
  
• IST School Assembly (2012-2016)
  
• Chair, Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Portugal Section (2014-2016)
  
• IST CSE Department Executive Board, Head of Faculty Affairs (2015-16)
  
• General co-Chair for ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2011
• Scientific Area Executive (Architecture and Operating Systems) in IST CSE Department (2009-2010)
  
• Member of the IST CSE Department Coordinating Board (2009-2010)

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