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About Me
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Associate Professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Department (DEI) at Instituto Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon (December 2015-)
- previously Assistant Professor: March 2007 to December 2015
- previously Teaching Assistant and Lecturer: March 2001 to March 2007
- Coordinator, Master of Science programme in Information Systems and Computer Engineering (MEIC) at the Alameda and Taguspark IST campi (2017-2020)
- Scientific Coordinator, Distributed Parallel and Secure Systems Research Area of INESC-ID Lisboa.
- Senior Researcher with the Distributed Systems Group of INESC-ID Lisboa (2000-).
- 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 middlewareTeaching (Undergraduate)
- Virtual Execution Environments (AVExe) at MEIC-Alameda
- Virtual Machine principles, tecnhiques and implementations; System and Application-level VMs. Distributed and parallel deployments; Virtual clustering and migration; Case-studies: VMWare GSX/ESX, IBM Jikes Java RVM, VMWare Virtual Center, Dynamo-RIO, FX!32.
- Middleware for Distributed Systems (PADI) at MEIC-Tagus/METI
- Operating Systems
Teaching (Graduate)
- Advanced Virtualization Techniques (TAVM) at PhD (DEIC)
- Outreach and Teaching Skills at PhD (DEIC)
Recent News and Results
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Award for IEEE CloudCom 2014 paper:
Leila Sharifi, Navaneeth Rameshan, Felix Freitag and Luís Veiga, Energy Efficiency Dilemma: P2P-cloud vs. Datacenter [Best Paper Candidate], IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2014) - Nomination for Best-Paper Award, Dec. 2014 , IEEE. -
Accepted paper at IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing:
Jose Simao and Luís Veiga, Partial Utility-driven Scheduling for Flexible SLA and Pricing Arbitration in Cloud. - Awarded Best INESC-ID Researcher Prize for 2014 at INESC-ID Lisboa.
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Accepted paper at ACM OOSPLA / SPLASH 2014:
Luís Pina and Luís Veiga and Michael Hicks, Rubah: DSU for Java on a stock JVM,
with OOPSLA Certified Artifact. - Excellence result in teaching at IST mention for 2014, for the Middleware for Distributed Internet Applications (PADI) course of the METI and MEIC-T degrees.
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Awarded Best-Paper Award Runner-up Prize for IEEE CloudCom 2013 in Bristol, with paper:
Jose Simao and Luís Veiga, Flexible SLAs in the Cloud with Partial Utility-driven Scheduling, IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2013) - Best-Paper Award Runner-up, Dec. 2013 , IEEE. - Nominated for Best Researcher Prize for 2013 at INESC-ID Lisboa.
- Awarded Best Young Researcher Prize for 2012 at INESC-ID Lisboa.
- Excellence result in teaching at IST mention for 2012, for the Virtual Execution Environments (AVExe) course of the MEIC-A degree.
Publications
Updated publication list at INESC-ID DatabasePublications at DBLP (partial)
Publications at Google Scholar
Publications at ResearchGate (partial)
Publications at Microsoft Academic Search (partial)
Profile at ORCID
Profile at ResearcherID
Profile at Scopus
List of representative publications (to be updated)
Projects
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):
- Pradeeban Kathiravelu. A Software-Defined Networking based Approach for Load Balancing and Policy Control in the Hybrid Clouds. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (started 2014).
- Leila Sharifi. Energy-Aware Resource Management in Community Clouds. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa / UPC - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Joint Supervision by Felix Freitag, UPC) (started 2013).
- Sérgio Ricardo de Oliveira Esteves. Quality-driven Data Consistency and Dataflow models for Data Intensive Computing in Clouds. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (started 2012).
- José Manuel de Campos Lages Garcia Simão. Economics-inspired Adaptive Resource Allocation and Scheduling for Cloud Environments, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, (defended April 2015, with Merit and Distinction).
- João Nuno de Oliveira e Silva. New Environments for Parallel Computing and Simulations. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, (defended December 2011, with Merit and Distinction).
PhD Students (as Co-Supervisor):
- André Filipe Pessoa Negrão. Cloud Aware Resource Provisioning and Consistency Management for Distributed Interactive Applications. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (Co-Supervisor with Paulo Ferreira, IST) (started 2011).
MSc Students
Complete List of Supervisions available hereOngoing MSc Supervisions (as Single/Main Supervisor):
- Alexandre Filipe Alves Tobias Campos, HBase++, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
- Daniel Gomes Fonseca Caixinha, Adaptive Software Defined Networking, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
- David Miguel dos Santos Dias, browserCloudJS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
- Duarte Tovar de Carvalho Patrício. GC-VM-BigData: Garbage Collection Optimization for JVM running Big Data Workloads, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
- Gonçalo João Curado Avelar. GreenBrowsing, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
- Rodrigo Tavares Fernandes. Green-Cloud: Economics-inspired Scheduling, Energy and Resource Management in Cloud Infrastructures, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
Service
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Group Manager (2014-2015), Distributed Systems Group (INESC-ID)
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Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing (Coordination Team at IST)
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Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing (Coordination Team at IST)
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IST School Assembly (2012-2016)
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Chair, Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Portugal Section (2014-2016)
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IST CSE Department Executive Board, Head of Faculty Affairs
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Scientific Area Executive (Architecture and Operating Systems) in IST CSE Department (2009-2010)
- Member of the IST CSE Department Coordinating Board (2009-2010)
Quick Links
INFORUM 2015 (Program Chair with Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto)
ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2013 Conference
IEEE CloudCom 2013 Conference
INFORUM 2013 Symposium
Editorships
- M-MPAC 2010 Middleware Workshop (sponsored by MiNEMA, co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference); Luís Veiga, Sotirios Terzis (Eds.), Dec. 2010, ACM.
- M-MPAC 2009 Middleware Workshop (sponsored by MiNEMA, co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference); Sotirios Terzis, Oriana Riva, Luís Veiga (Eds.), Dec. 2009, ACM.
- MobMid 2008 - Mobile Middleware: Embracing the Personal Communication Device (sponsored by MiNEMA, co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference); Oriana Riva, Luís Veiga (Eds.), Dec. 2008, ACM.
- International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java; Luís Veiga, Vasco Amaral, Nigel Horspool, Giacomo Cabri (Eds.), Sep. 2008, ACM.
- International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java; Vasco Amaral, Luís Marcelino, Luís Veiga, H. Conrad Cunningham (Eds.), Sep. 2007, ACM.
- ACM EuroSys Conference, Paulo Ferreira, Thomas R. Gross, Luís Veiga (Eds.), Mar. 2007, ACM.
Activities / Committees
Updated list of Activities- General Chair for ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2011
- INFORUM 2011 National Conference
- M-MPAC Workshop at Middleware 2010
- ARM Workshop at Middleware 2010
- INFORUM 2010 National Conference
- M-MPAC Workshop at Middleware 2009
- ARM Workshop at Middleware 2009
- INFORUM 2009 National Conference
Awards / Mentions
- Best Paper Award Runner up for Flexible SLAs in the Cloud with Partial Utility-driven Scheduling; Jose Simao and Luís Veiga at IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2013).
- Best Paper Award for Vector-Field Consistency for Ad-hoc Gaming; Nuno Santos, Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira at ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2007.
- Excellence result in teaching at IST mention for 2008 (Top-11 instructor/course overall gathered from student-filled inquiries).
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Nominations for Best paper award
- Object-Swapping for Resource-Constrained Devices; Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira at 5th Int. Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'07), ICDCS Workshops 2007.
- Extending .NET Remoting with Distributed Garbage Collection; Paulo Pereira, Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira at 2nd International Conference on Innovative Views of .Net, 2006.
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