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
• 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)
Publications at Microsoft Academic Search (partial)

Profile at ORCID
Profile at ResearcherID
Profile at Scopus

List of representative publications (to be updated)

Projects

novaVM, FCT (Coordinator)
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):

• 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):

• 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

• 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
  
• 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

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)

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).
• 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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