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MsC Thesis 2020-2021 more details here |
Some interesting URLS: - Middleware 2018 - Special issue on The Future of Blockchains and its Applications - Special issue on Ubiquitous Systems and its Applications |
Currently also with UiO: more details here |
>>>Short Bio (PDF)
Paulo Ferreira holds a PhD from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1996) in Computer Science. His MSc (1992) and BSc (1988) are both from Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) in Electrotechnical Engineering. He holds the “agregação” since November 2009 from the same University.
He is currently
Associated Professor with “Agregação”
in Instituto Superior Técnico
at the Department
of Computer Science and Engineering where he has been teaching
courses within the scientific area of Architecture and Operating
Systems, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including Mobile
Computing, Middleware for Distributed Internet Applications, Operating
Systems, and Advanced Distributed Systems.
He was Pro-Rector
at the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) between 2007 and 2010,
being responsible for the analysis and evaluation of existing
information and communication systems. In this activity, among other
tasks, he has coordinated the VoIP project, improved the computer
system of the academic services as well as the infrastructure of
communications between the various schools of UTL. He is also member of
the Directory Board of Óbidos Technological Park
representing UTL.
He was
responsible for the Distributed Systems Group (“Grupo
de Sistemas Distribuídos”, GSD) of INESC ID since January 1999 to 2010
(sharing this responsibility every two years since 2010 on a rotative basis). This group is currently
composed of nine PhDs and several PhD and MSc students. In addition to
the responsibility for scientific coordination of GSD, he has also been
responsible for the Research Action
Line at INESC ID called Computing Systems and Communication Networks
in 2012-2013 and 2008-2009.
He is senior
member of INESC ID in the Distributed Systems Group, where he develops
his research work in the scientific research area of distributed
systems, with emphasis on middleware, mobile computing and operating
systems. He has published, as author or co-author, more than 100
articles in international journals and conferences, 1 scientific book,
11 book chapters, a pedagogical book (with 3 editions, being one in
Brazil), serves on various program committees (e.g. Middleware, ICDCS,
DAIS, etc.), served as an expert to the European Union for assessment
of projects proposals under the 7th Framework Program, led
more than 15 research projects, was one of the founders and board
officer of EuroSys (ACM -
European Chapter of the Special Interest Group on Operating Systems)
being currently member of the Steering Committee; he is also a member
of the Steering
Committee of the ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware
(2013-2014) and ACM/IFIP/Usenix Adaptive
and Reflective Middleware (ARM). He is currently member of the
editorial board of the Springer
Journal of Internet Services and Applications.
He is senior member of ACM and IEEE, was awarded two Best Paper Awards at international events (ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference, level A in both CORE and RADIST rankings), 1 Recognition of Service Award from ACM, his PhD thesis was top ranked at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and in the academic years of 2010/2011 (2nd semester) and 2013/14 (1st semester) he was awarded the mention of “excellent teaching” at IST in the courses of Mobile Computing (MSc, 1st year) and Operating Systems (BSc, 2nd year), respectively.
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