Luís Antunes Veiga's Homepage

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About Me

• 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
• 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 Scientific Council of IST (2023-)
• Vice-Head of Department, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Academic Matters (2021-2022)
• 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 (2020-2021).
• 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 middleware

Teaching (Undergraduate)

• Cloud Computing and Virtualization (CNV) at MEIC, METI and MECD
  
• Virtual Execution Environments (AVExe) at MEIC-Alameda
  
• Middleware for Distributed Systems (PADI) at MEIC-Tagus/METI
  
• Operating Systems
  

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

List of representative publications (to be updated)

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):

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

• 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

Ongoing MSc Supervisions (as Single/Main Supervisor):

Service

• Program co-Chair for ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2021
• 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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