Tânia da Conceição Araújo Esteves (521D-A5D7-931A)

Curriculum Vitae

Tânia da Conceição Araújo Esteves

Tânia Esteves is an Assistant Researcher at INESC TEC and a 25% Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Minho. She earned her PhD in 2024 through the Doctoral Program in Informatics (PDINF) at the University of Minho, with a dissertation titled "Flexible Tracing and Analysis of Applications' I/O Behavior." Her research interests lie in distributed and storage systems, particularly in performance diagnosis, correctness, and the security of data-centric applications. Tânia has published her work in peer-reviewed journals and leading international conferences and workshops, including PVLDB, IEEE Access, ACM Middleware, and IEEE SRDS. She has contributed to several national and international research projects, including a Joint Study Agreement with IBM Research Haifa, CENTRA, Compete2020 BigHPC, BCD.S+M, and BringTrust. In addition to her research, Tânia has served the scientific community as a reviewer. She is on the program committee for EuroSys 2025 (Shadow PC) and has participated in the artifact evaluation committees for DAIS (2023 and 2025) and EuroSys (2025). She has also been an invited reviewer for the TPDS (2024) and SCICO (2024) journals. Furthermore, Tânia is actively involved in student supervision, currently co-supervising two PhD and three MSc students, with another three MSc supervisions completed successfully. She has also monitored several BSc and MSc students on research and academic projects on I/O observability, storage optimizations, and ransomware analysis, totaling 22 students in ongoing and past research supervision.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Tânia da Conceição Araújo Esteves
Date of birth: 1995/06/01
Gender: Female

Citation names

Esteves, Tânia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 521D-A5D7-931A
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9358-1008
Google Scholar ID: 9L8v5XEAAAAJ
Scopus Author Id: 57215130038

Email addresses

tania.esteves@inesctec.pt (Professional)

Addresses

HASLab INESC TEC - Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Rua da Universidade, 4710-057, Gualtar, Braga, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://taniaesteves.github.io (Professional)
https://www.inesctec.pt/en/people/tania-esteves (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2018/11 - 2024/04 Concluded	PDINF Doctoral Program in Informatics (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Flexible Tracing and Analysis of Applications’ I/O Behavior" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very good mention (U. Minho's Highest Grade)
2013/09 - 2018/11 Concluded	Integrated Master in Informatics Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Configurable and Secure Storage Systems" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	15 out of 20

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/06 - Current	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
2018/04 - 2024/05	Research Assistant (Research)	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

2022/07 - 2022/09	Research Trainee (Research)	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, Japan

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021 - Current	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/11 - 2024/04	PhD student from Doctoral Program in Informatics	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2025 - Current	BringTrust: Strengthening CI/CD Pipeline Cybersecurity and Safeguarding the Intellectual Property 18493 Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2024/06/01 - Current	BCD.S+M: Sistema Modular de Armazenamento e Gestão de Dados em Blockchain com IA 14436 Post-doc	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing
2020/06/01 - 2020/11/30	BigHPC: A Management Framework for Consolidated Big Data and HPC POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045924 Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal Wavecom-Soluções Rádio, SA, Portugal Texas Advanced Computing Center, United States University of Texas at Austin, United States Minho Advanced Computing Center, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2018/06 - 2020/11	Efficient and Secure Data Management for HPC and Cloud Computing (Global CENTRA project) Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, South Korea National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	Ongoing
2018/04 - 2019/10	IBM Research Haifa - Joint Study Aggreement (Ref. H1772072) Researcher Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal IBM Haifa Research Labs, Israel	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Carlos Machado; Bruno Gião; Sebastião Amaro; Miguel Matos; João Paulo; Tânia Esteves. "No Two Snowflakes Are Alike: Studying eBPF Libraries' Performance, Fidelity and Resource Usage". 2025. 10.1145/3748355.3748364 Esteves, Tânia; Pereira, Bruno; Oliveira, Rui Pedro; Silva, João Marco; Paulo, João. "CRIBA: A Tool for Comprehensive Analysis of Cryptographic Ransomware's I/O Behavior". Paper presented in 42nd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2023. Published • 10.1109/srds60354.2023.00015 Esteves, Tânia; Macedo, Ricardo; Oliveira, Rui; Paulo, João. "Diagnosing applications' I/O behavior through system call observability". Paper presented in 5th Workshop on Data-Centric Dependability and Security (DCDS), 2023. Published • 10.1109/dsn-w58399.2023.00022 Esteves, Tânia; NEVES, FRANCISCO; Oliveira, Rui; Paulo, João. "CaT: Content-aware Tracing and Analysis for Distributed Systems". Paper presented in 22nd International Middleware Conference (Middleware), 2021. Published • 10.1145/3464298.3493396 MIRANDA, MARIANA; Esteves, Tânia; Portela, Bernardo; Paulo, João. "S2Dedup: SGX-Enabled Secure Deduplication". Paper presented in 14th International Conference on Systems and Storage (SYSTOR), Haifa, 2021. Published • 10.1145/3456727.3463773 Esteves, Tânia; Macedo, Ricardo; Faria, Alberto; Portela, Bernardo; Paulo, João; Pereira, José; Harnik, Danny. "TrustFS: An SGX-Enabled Stackable File System Framework". Paper presented in 1st Workshop on Distributed and Reliable Storage Systems (DRSS), 2019. Published • 10.1109/SRDSW49218.2019.00012
Journal article	Brito, Cláudia; Pina, Noela; Esteves, Tânia; Vitorino, Ricardo; Cunha, Inês; Paulo, João. "Promoting sustainable and personalized travel behaviors while preserving data privacy". Transportation Engineering 19 (2025): 100237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.treng.2024.100237. 10.1016/j.treng.2024.100237 Maria Ramos; João Azevedo; Kyle Kingsbury; José Pereira; Tânia Esteves; Ricardo Macedo; João Paulo. "When Amnesia Strikes: Understanding and Reproducing Data Loss Bugs with Fault Injection". Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/3681954.3681980. 10.14778/3681954.3681980 Esteves, Tânia; Macedo, Ricardo; Oliveira, Rui; Paulo, João. "Toward a Practical and Timely Diagnosis of Application's I/O Behavior". IEEE Access 11 (2023): 110184-110207. Open access • Published • 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3322104
Thesis / Dissertation	"Flexible Tracing and Analysis of Applications’ I/O Behavior". PhD, Universidade do Minho, 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/91357. Esteves, Tânia. "Configurable and Secure Storage Systems". Master, Universidade do Minho, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/64184.

Activities

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025 - Current	Secure and Resilient Storage Systems Against Ransomware. Co-advised with João Paulo Supervisor of Bruno Pereira	PhD Thesis (PhD) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025 - Current	Relational Querying of Operating System State with eBPF. Co-advised with José Pereira Supervisor of Bruno Gião	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025 - Current	Analysis of Vulnerabilities in DevOps Workflows and Protection via eBPF. Co-advised with Hans P. Reiser. Supervisor of Tiago Silva	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025 - Current	Automating Storage Fault Injection. Co-advised with João Paulo. Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025 - Current	Dataspace connector for Agentic AI. Co-advised with Fábio Coelho. Co-supervisor	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024 - Current	Improving the observability of complex I/O stacks. Co-advised with João Paulo. Co-supervisor of Carlos Machado	MSc Thesis (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024 - Current	Characterization of HPC applications. Co-advised with João Paulo. Co-supervisor of Ana Rita Vaz	MSc Thesis (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024 - Current	Assessing the fault tolerance of data-centric aplications. Co-advised with João Paulo. Co-supervisor of Maria Ramos	PhD Thesis (PhD) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024 - Current	Automated Security Testing in CI/CD Pipelines for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Co-advised with João Paulo Co-supervisor of Daniel Du	MSc Thesis (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023 - 2025/02/03	Towards Optimized Development and Testing of Ransomware Detection Solutions. Co-advised with João Paulo and João Marco Silva. Co-supervisor of Bruno Pereira	MSc Thesis (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022 - 2024	Reproducible Fault Injection in Local Storage Systems. Co-advised with João Paulo and Ricardo Macedo. Co-supervisor of Maria Ramos	MSc Thesis (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/09 - 2023	Analysis of I/O patterns for data management systems. Co-advised with João Paulo and Ricardo Vilaça. Co-supervisor of Pedro Rodrigues	MSc Thesis (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2025 - 2025	Co-chair and organizer of the Workshop on Reliable Large-scale Data Management (RLDM'25). September 2025. Workshop co-located with SRDS 2025. (2025) Workshop

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023 - Current	Lecturer of the Operating Systems class laboratories.	Computer Science (Bachelor)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - Current	Lecturer of the Operating Systems class laboratories	Informatics Engineering (Bachelor)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - Current	Lecturer of the Cloud Computing Applications and Services class laboratories.	Informatics Engineering (Master)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2024 - Current	Research on Kubernetes applied to data spaces. Co-advised with Fábio Coelho.	Gonçalo Marinho and Henrique Vaz
2024 - Current	Reproducible storage fault injection. Co-advised with João Paulo and Maria Ramos.	Paula Marques e Gustavo Santos
2024 - Current	Research on ransomware analysis. Co-advised with Bruno Pereira	Rui Lopes
2023 - Current	Research on hybrid deduplication for SPDK. Co-advised with João Paulo.	Rui Pedro Oliveira
2023 - Current	Research on files observability with eBPF.	Bruno Gião
2024/09 - 2024/11	I/O Characterization of DL models and LLMs with eBPF. Co-advised with Cláudia Brito.	Carlos Machado, André Ferreira and Gonçalo Sousa
2023/09 - 2024/01	I/O Behavior Analysis on Android Targeted Ransomware. Co-advised with João Marco Silva.	Beatriz Oliveira, Bruno Pereira and Bruno Machado
2023/09 - 2024/01	Study of the I/O behavior of ransomware families in Windows. Co-advised with João Paulo.	Fernando Lobo and André Sá
2023 - 2024	Research on storage I/O diagnosis for data-centric applications. Co-advised with João Paulo.	Diogo Costa
2022 - 2023	Research on ransomware I/O analysis and characterization. Co-advised with João Paulo and João Marco Silva.	Bruno Pereira and Rui Pedro Oliveira
2021/02 - 2021/06	Big Data applications analysis. Co-advised with João Paulo.	Diogo Ribeiro and Rui Mendes
2021/02 - 2021/06	Applications’ I/O interception and analysis. Co-advised with João Paulo.	Alexandre Miranda, Alexandre Ferreira, João Azevedo and Paulo Araújo

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Artifact Evaluation Committee Member at EuroSys'25.
2025 - 2025	Artifact Evaluation Committee Member at DAIS'25.
2025 - 2025	Artifact Evaluation Committee Member at EuroSys'26.
2025 - 2025	Artifact Evaluation Committee Member at SOSP'25.
2024 - 2025	Shadow PC committee member of EuroSys'25.
2024 - 2024	Reviewer for the Science of Computer Programming Journal (SCICO) journal
2024 - 2024	Reviewer for the Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) journal
2023 - 2023	Artifact Evaluation Committee Member at DAIS'23.

Distinctions

Award

2023	Scholarship for attending the EuroSys'23 Conference
2020	PhD Grant (DFA/BD/5881/2020) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2019	Scholarship for attending the event Women In Computing Systems and Engineering (SRDS'19).