Current PhD Students:

• Maria Casimiro, I.S.T. Lisbon. Starting date: January 2019
  Co-advising with Prof. David Garlan, Institute for Software Research, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

• Daniel Castro, I.S.T. Lisbon. Starting date: September 2016
• Shady Alaa, Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computer program, Starting date: January 2014
  Co-advising with Prof. Vladimir Vlassov, Department of Software and Computer Systems, School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

• Jingna Zeng, Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computer program, I.S.T. Lisbon. Starting date: September 2013
  Co-advising with Prof. Seif Haridi, Department of Software and Computer Systems, School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

• Zhongmiao Li, Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computer program, I.S.T. Lisbon. Starting date: September 2013
  Co-advising with Prof. Peter Van Roy, Department of Computing Science and Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

Previous PhD Students:

• Shady Issa
  I.S.T. Lisbon & KTH
  Starting date: February 2014, End Date: December 2018
  Phd Thesis
  Follow-up employment: PostDoc at INESC-ID

• Nuno Diegues
  I.S.T. Lisbon.
  Starting date: November 2012, End Date: September 2016
  Phd Thesis
  Follow-up employment: Software Engineer at Feedzai

• Diego Didona
  I.S.T. Lisbon.
  Starting date: February 2011, End Date: September 2015
  Phd Thesis
  Follow-up employment: PostDoc at EPFL

• Sebastiano Peluso
  Joint PhD Programme between Sapienza Rome University and IST Lisbon.
  Starting date: October 2010. End Date: September 2014
  Co-advising with Prof. Francesco Quaglia, the Computer Engineer Department of Sapienza Rome University, Italy.
  Phd Thesis
  Follow-up employment: PostDoc at Virginia Tech.

• Maria Couceiro
  I.S.T. Lisbon.
  Starting date: April 2010. End date: May 2015 Co-advising with Prof. Luis Rodrigues
  Phd Thesis
  Follow-up employment: Software Engineer at Oracle/MySQL.

Current MSc students:

• Oleksiy Tarlovskyy, Accellerating TM using integrated GPUs, Expected defense date: Oct. 2019
• Pedro Mendes, Self-tuning of Distributed Machine Learning Jobs in the Cloud, Oct. 2019

Previous MSc students:

• Miguel Viegas, Fine-grained Transaction Scheduling in Replicated Databases via Symbolic Execution, Oct. 2018 (Co-advised with Prof. Miguel Matos)
  - Extended abstract
  - Mid term report

• Maria Casimiro, Lynceus: Long-Sighted, Budget-Aware Online Tuning of Cloud Applications, Oct. 2018
  - Extended abstract
  - Mid term report

• Tiago Lopes, Speculative Read Write Locks,May 2018
  - Extended abstract
  - Mid term report

• Davide Leoni, Integrating Transactional Memory Support in the TensorFlow Framework, Rome University ``La Sapienza'' (Co-advising with Prof. Bruno Ciciani and Francesco Quaglia), January 2018
• Carlos Ribeiro, Scalable and Memory-Efficient Approaches for Spatial Data Downscaling Leveraging Machine Learning, October 2017 (Co-advised with Prof. Bruno Martins)
  - Extended abstract
  - Mid term report

• Nuno Fangueiro, Exploiting Hardware Transactional Memory to Accelerate Concurrent Spatio-Temporal Indexes , October 2017
  - Extended abstract
  - Mid Term Report

• André Santos, A recommendation system approach to online tuning of Transactional Memory, May 2017
  - A recommendation system approach to the tuning of Transactional Memory (Extended Abstract)
  - Mid Term Report

• Ricardo Vieira, Transactional Memory for Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Systems, October 2016
  - Transactional Memory for Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Systems (Extended Abstract)
  - Hardware Accelerated Cloud Data Store for Data Mining over Big Spatio-Temporal Data (Mid Term Report)
  (Co-advised with Prof. Aleksandar Ilic)

• Daniel Castro, Performance Modelling of Hardware Transactional Memory , November 2016
  Extended Abstract - Performance Modelling of Intel’s Hardware
  Transactional Memory Implementation (Mid Term Report)

• Pedro Raminhas, ``Enhancing efficiency of Hybrid Transactional Memory via Dynamic Data Partitioning Schemes'', October 2016
  Mid Term Report - Final Report - Extended Abstract

• José Simões, ``Self-tuning the parallelism degree in Parallel-Nested Transactional Memory'', May 2016
  Mid Term Report - Final Report
  (Co-advised with Prof. João Barreto)

• Ricardo Neves, ``Multi-dimensional Self-Tuning in Transactional Memory'', October 2015
  Mid Term Report - Final Report - Extended Abstract

• Fabio Perfetti, ``Tool per il benchmarking e la gestione autonomica di piattaforme datagrid transazionali'', Rome University ``La Sapienza'' (Co-advising with Prof. Francesco Quaglia), October 2013
  Final Report

• Hugo Pimentel, ``Enhancing locality via caching in the GMU protocol'', end date: October 2013
  Mid Term Report - Final Report

• Tiago Picado, ``A Fault-Tolerant Network Intrusion Detection System'', IST Lisbon (Co-advising with Prof. Carlos Ribeiro), end date: September 2012
  Mid Term Report - Final Report

• Pedro Louro, ``Privacy preserving bug reporting'', IST Lisbon (Co-advising with Prof. Joao Garcia), October 2011
  Mid Term Report - Final Report

• Alessandra Di Domenico, ``Caratterizzazione Automatica del Pattern di Accesso ai Dati in DBMS Relazionali'', July 2007, Rome University Sapienza
• Alessia Clementi, ``Integrazione in PostgreSQL di Schemi di Multi Instance Precommit'', July 2007, Rome University Sapienza
• Pierangelo Di Sanzo, ``Modellazione e Valutazione di Sistemi Transazionali Basati su Controllo di Concorrenza Multiversione'', September 2008, Rome University Sapienza (Co-advising with Prof. Bruno Ciciani)
• Rughetti Diego, ``Raccolta ed elaborazione di dati provenienti da reti di sensori distribuiti', May 2008, Rome University Sapienza (Co-advising with Prof. Bruno Ciciani)
• Letizia Leo, ``Estensione di PostgreSQL per Supporti di Schemi Multi-path in Applicazioni di e-Commerce'', May 2006, Rome University Sapienza (Co-advising with Prof. Bruno Ciciani)
• Andrea Consiglio, ``Integrazione di meccanismi per e-Transaction in JBoss Application Server'', May 2005, Rome University Sapienza (Co-advising with Prof. Bruno Ciciani)
• Antonio Cozzolino, ``Valutazione di Protocolli per Affidabilit ́a End-To-End in Applicazioni Transazionali Web-based'', May 2004, Rome University Sapienza (Co-advising with Prof. Bruno Ciciani)