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About Me

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)
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Recent News and Results

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):

  • 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

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