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Ricardo Vilaça has a PhD from MAP-i since 2012. Currently he is a senior researcher at HASLab and MACC, University of Minho & INESC TEC and former has query engine technical director at LeanXcale. His research interests are energy efficient and scalable data management in both parallel and distributed systems. Currently, he participates in EuroCC2 and SustainableHPC research projects. He represents MACC in the national network (RNCA), and in EuroHPC hosting entities forum. He was the INESC TEC coordinator of the AIDA CMU large scale collaborative project and had participated in more than 15 national and international research projects. He was co-supervisor of 2 PhD students and had supervise several research grant holders and master thesis. He had published more than 40 research papers or articles and has served as reviewer for several highly reputed conferences.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
RICARDO MANUEL PEREIRA VILAÇA

Citation names

  • VILAÇA, RICARDO

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F01D-61E5-9B0A
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6957-1536
AuthenticusID
R-001-K84
Google Scholar ID
ZMfluQ0AAAAJ
Researcher Id
JTT-2927-2023
Scopus Author Id
24463029600

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2012
Concluded
 MAP-i Doctoral Programme (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"Clouder: A Flexible Large Scale Decentralized Object Store" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Unanimously approved
2005
Concluded
 Computer Science and Systems Engineering (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
"Open IMS Service Platform" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/03/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho Advanced Computing Center, Portugal
2013/01/01 - 2016/02/29 Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2009 - 2012 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2005/11/01 - 2008/03/31 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2010/09/01 - 2011/02/28 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/03/01 - 2019/02/28 Query Engine Technical Director LeanXcale, Spain
2005/03/01 - 2005/10/31 Internship Altice Labs, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2011/03 - 2014/04 Stratus: A Layered Approach to Data Management in the Cloud
Provided by PTCRIS: 115570
115570
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/09/01 - Current Sustainable HPC
PG06336
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Ongoing
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 EuroCC2: National Competence Centres in the framework of EuroHPC Phase 2
HORIZON EUROPE 101101903
Researcher
2024/03/01 - 2025/01/31 exaSIMPLE: A Hybrid ML-CFD SIMPLE Algorithm for the Exascale Era
Inno4Scale 101118139
Researcher
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2023/09/30 A network for supporting the coordination of High Performance Computing research between Europe and Latin America RISC2
H2020 101016478
Researcher
2020/05/12 - 2023/06/30 AIDA - Adaptive, Intelligent and Distributed Assurance Platform
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045907
Principal investigator
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
2022/06 - 2023/05 HPC4PE: High Performance Computing for Profile Extrusion
FF4EuroHPC 951745
Researcher
2020/09/01 - 2022/12/31 EuroCC - National Competence Centres in the framework of EuroHPC
H2020 951732
Researcher
2020/04/01 - 2022/12/31 PRACE 6th Implementation Phase Project
H2020 823767
Researcher
European Commission
2021/12 - 2022/12 Aurora
AURORA
Researcher
Concluded
2020/10/01 - 2021/09/30 PAStor – Programmable and Adaptable Storage for AI-oriented HPC Ecosystems
UTA-EXPL/CA/0075/2019
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018/01/01 - 2019/02/28 BigDataStack - High-performance data-centric stack for big data applications and operations
H2020 779747
Researcher
LeanXcale, Spain
 Horizon 2020 European Innovation Council Fast Track to Innovation
Ongoing
2017/03/01 - 2019/02/28 CrowdHealth - Collective wisdom driving public health policies
H2020 727560
Researcher
Horizon 2020 European Innovation Council Fast Track to Innovation
2016/12/01 - 2019/02/28 CloudDBAppliance - European Cloud In-Memory Database Appliance with Predictable Performance for Critical Applications
H2020 732051
Researcher
Horizon 2020 European Innovation Council Fast Track to Innovation
2016/02/01 - 2019/01/31 VineYard - Versatile Integrated Accelerator-based Heterogeneous Data Centres
H2020 687628
Researcher
Horizon 2020 European Innovation Council Fast Track to Innovation
2014/03/01 - 2017/02/28 LeanBigData - Ultra-Scalable and Ultra-Efficient Integrated and Visual Big Data Analytics
FP7 619606
Researcher
LeanXcale, Spain
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development International Cooperation
2013/10/01 - 2016/09/30 CoherentPaaS - A Coherent and Rich PaaS with a Common Programming Model
FP7 611068
Researcher
LeanXcale, Spain
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development International Cooperation
2010/10/01 - 2013/09/20 CumuloNimbo - A Highly Scalable Transactional Multi-Tier Platform as a Service
FP7 257993
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development International Cooperation
2005/10/01 - 2008/03/31 GORDA - Open Replication of Databases
FP6 004758
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development International Cooperation
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Coelho, F.; Pereira, J.; Vilaça, R.; Oliveira, R.. Holistic shuffler for the parallel processing of SQL window functions. 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-39577-7_6
  2. Vilaça, R.; Oliveira, R.; Pereira, J.; Vilaça, Ricardo; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Pereira, José, 1973-. A correlation-aware data placement strategy for key-value stores. Portugal: Springer. 2011.
    10.1007/978-3-642-21387-8_17
  3. Vilaça, R.; Cruz, F.; Oliveira, R.. On the expressiveness and trade-offs of large scale tuple stores. 2010.
    10.1007/978-3-642-16949-6_5
Conference paper
  1. Renato Azevedo. "EASAHE, Um algoritmo para o agendamento de trabalhos em ferramentas de processamento de dados com preocupações de eficiência energética". Paper presented in Inforum 2023, Porto, 2023.
    Accepted
  2. Costa, D; Pereira, J; Vilaça, R; Faria, N. "Adaptive database synchronization for an online analytical cioud-to-edge continuum". 2022.
    10.1145/3477314.3507212
  3. "AIDA-DB: A Data Management Architecture for the Edge and Cloud Continuum". 2022.
    10.1109/ccnc49033.2022.9700692
  4. Faria, N; Pereira, J; Alonso, AN; Vilaça, R. "Towards Generic Fine-Grained Transaction Isolation in Polystores". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-93663-1_3
  5. Pontes, R; Portela, B; Barbosa, M; Vilaca, R. "CODBS: A cascading oblivious search protocol optimized for real-world relational database indexes". 2021.
    10.1109/srds53918.2021.00026
  6. Neves, F; Machado, N; Vilaca, R; Pereira, J. "Horus: Non-Intrusive Causal Analysis of Distributed Systems Logs". 2021.
    10.1109/dsn48987.2021.00035
  7. Neves, F; Vilaca, R; Pereira, J. "Black-box inter-application traffic monitoring for adaptive container placement". 2020.
    10.1145/3341105.3374007
  8. Pontes, R; Maia, F; Vilaca, R; Machado, N. "D'Artagnan: A Trusted NoSQL Database on Untrusted Clouds". 2019.
    10.1109/srds47363.2019.00017
  9. Pontes, R.; Pinto, M.; Barbosa, M.; Vilaça, R.; Matos, M.; Oliveira, R.; Rogério António Pontes; et al. "Performance trade-offs on a secure multi-party relational database". 2017.
    10.1145/3019612.3019659
  10. Francisco Teixeira Neves; Vilaça,Ricardo; José Orlando Pereira; Rui Carlos Oliveira; Neves, Francisco; Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; Pereira, José; et al. "Prepared scan: efficient retrieval of structured data from HBase". 2017.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3019612.3019863
  11. Coelho, Fábio; Paulo, João; Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; Pereira, José; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Coelho, F.; Paulo, J.; et al. "HTAPBench: Hybrid transactional and analytical processing benchmark". 2017.
    10.1145/3030207.3030228
  12. Coelho, F.; Pereira, J.; Vilaça, R.; Oliveira, R.. "Reducing data transfer in parallel processing of SQL window functions". 2016.
    10.5220/0005923603430347
  13. Rogério António Pontes; Francisco Almeida Maia; João Tiago Paulo; Ricardo Pereira Vilaça; Pontes, R.; Maia, F.; Paulo, J.; Vilaca, R.. "SafeRegions: Performance evaluation of multi-party protocols on HBase". 2016.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/srdsw.2016.16
  14. Francisco Miguel Cruz; Francisco Almeida Maia; Miguel Marques Matos; Rui Carlos Oliveira; João Tiago Paulo; José Orlando Pereira; Ricardo Pereira Vilaça. "Resource Usage Prediction in Distributed Key-Value Datastores". 2016.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39577-7_12
  15. Fábio André Coelho; José Orlando Pereira; Ricardo Pereira Vilaça; Rui Carlos Oliveira. "Holistic Shuffler for the Parallel Processing of SQL Window Functions". 2016.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39577-7_6
  16. Coelho, Fabio; Pereira, José; Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de. "Holistic shuffler for the parallel processing of SQL window functions". 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-39577-7_6
  17. Coelho, Fabio; Pereira, José; Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de. "Reducing data transfer in parallel processing of SQL window functions". 2016.
    10.5220/0005923603430347
  18. Cruz, Francisco; Maia, Francisco; Matos, Miguel Ângelo Marques; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Paulo, João; Pereira, José; Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; et al. "Resource usage prediction in distributed key-value datastores". 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-39577-7_12
  19. Fábio André Coelho; José Orlando Pereira; Ricardo Pereira Vilaça; Rui Carlos Oliveira. "Reducing Data Transfer in Parallel Processing of SQL Window Functions". 2016.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0005923603430347
  20. Jimenez, R; Patiño, M; Brondino, I; Vianello, V; Vilaça, R; Kolev, B; Valduriez, P; et al. "CoherentPaaS - A Coherent and Rich PaaS with a Common Programming Model". 2016.
  21. Jimenez, R; Patiño, M; Vianello, V; Brondino, I; Vilaça, R; Teixeira, J; Biscaia, M; et al. "Scalable and Efficient Big Data Analytics - The LeanBigData Approach". 2016.
  22. Leitão, J.; Vilaca, R.. "The 2nd Workshop on Planetary-Scale Distributed Systems (W-PSDS 2014)". 2014.
    10.1109/srdsw.2014.32
  23. Coelho, F.; Cruz, F.; Vilaça, R.; Pereira, J.; Oliveira, R.; Fábio André Coelho; Francisco Miguel Cruz; et al. "PH1: A transactional middleware for NoSQL". 2014.
    10.1109/srds.2014.23
  24. Cruz, Francisco; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Maia, Francisco; Vilaça, Ricardo; Cruz, F.; Maia, F.; Oliveira, R.; et al. "Workload-aware table splitting for NoSQL". 2014.
    10.1145/2554850.2555027
  25. Coelho, Fábio André Castanheira Luís; Cruz, Francisco; Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; Pereira, José; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de. "pH1: a transactional middleware for NoSQL". 2014.
    10.1109/SRDS.2014.23
  26. Maia, Francisco; Matos, Miguel; Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; Pereira, José; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Riviere, Etienne; Maia, F.; et al. "DATAFLASKS: epidemic store for massive scale systems". 2014.
    10.1109/SRDS.2014.34
  27. Felber,P; Pasin,M; Riviere,E; Schiavoni,V; Sutra,P; Fábio André Coelho; Rui Carlos Oliveira; et al. "On the support of versioning in distributed key-value stores". 2014.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/srds.2014.35
  28. Matos, Miguel; Gomes, Pedro; Vilaça, Ricardo; Beernaert, Leander; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de. "Evaluating Cassandra as a manager of large file sets". 2013.
    10.1145/2460756.2460761
  29. Francisco Almeida Maia; Miguel Marques Matos; Ricardo Pereira Vilaça; José Orlando Pereira; Rui Carlos Oliveira; Riviere,E; Maia, F.; et al. "DATAFLASKS: an epidemic dependable key-value substrate". 2013.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/dsn.2013.6575326
  30. Vilaça, Ricardo; Cruz, Francisco; Pereira, José; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Vilaça, R.; Cruz, F.; Pereira, J.; et al. "An effective scalable SQL engine for NoSQL databases". 2013.
    10.1007/978-3-642-38541-4_12
  31. Maia, Francisco; Matos, Miguel; Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; Pereira, José; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Etienne Riviere. "DataFlasks : an epidemic dependable key-value substrate". 2013.
    10.1109/DSN.2013.6575326
  32. Cruz, Francisco; Maia, Francisco António Ferraz Martins Almeida; Matos, Miguel; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Paulo, João; Pereira, José; Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; et al. "MeT: workload aware elasticity for NoSQL". 2013.
    10.1145/2465351.2465370
  33. Francisco Miguel Cruz; João Tiago Paulo; Francisco Almeida Maia; Miguel Marques Matos; Rui Carlos Oliveira; José Orlando Pereira; Ricardo Pereira Vilaça. "MeT". 2013.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2465351.2465370
  34. Vilaça, Ricardo; Matos, Miguel; Beernaert, Leander; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Beernaert, L.; Matos, M.; Vilaça, R.; Oliveira, R.. "Automatic elasticity in OpenStack". 2012.
    10.1145/2405186.2405188
  35. Oliveira, Rui; Brondino, Iván; Kemme, Bettina; Pereira, José; Patiño-Martínez, Marta; Vilaça, Ricardo; Ahmad, Yousuf; Jimenez-Peris, Ricardo. "CumuloNimbo: parallel-distributed transactional processing". 2012.
  36. Matos, M.; Vilaça, R.; Pereira, J.; Oliveira, R.. "An epidemic approach to dependable key-value substrates". 2011.
    10.1109/dsnw.2011.5958794
  37. Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; Pereira, José; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Armendariz Inigo, J. E.; González de Mendívil, J. R.. "On the cost of database clusters reconfiguration". 2009.
    10.1109/SRDS.2009.27
  38. Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira; Oliveira, Rui Carlos Mendes de; Vilaça, R.; Oliveira, R.. "Clouder: a flexible large scale decentralized object store - architecture overview". 2009.
    10.1145/1518691.1518699
  39. Correia Jr., A.; Pereira, J.; Rodrigues, L.; Carvalho, N.; Vilaça, R.; Oliveira, R.; Guedes, S.; et al. "GORDA: An open architecture for database replication". 2007.
    10.1109/nca.2007.26
Conference poster
  1. André Martins. "PerfEnerPy - Uma ferramenta para a avaliação da performance e eficiência energética de ferramentas Dataframes". Paper presented in Inforum 2023, 2023.
  2. Paulo Sousa; José Orlando Pereira. "SAGeo: Simulador para Sistemas de Bases de Dados Geo-Replicadas". Paper presented in Inforum 2023, 2023.
Journal article
  1. C.A. Silva; R. Vilaça; A. Pereira; R.J. Bessa; carlos silva; VILAÇA, RICARDO; Pereira, André; Rui Bessa. Corresponding author: carlos silva. "A review on the decarbonization of high-performance computing centers". Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2023.114019.
    Accepted • 10.1016/j.rser.2023.114019
  2. Faria, N; Pereira, J; Alonso, AN; Vilaca, R; Koning, Y; Nes, N. "TiQuE: Improving the Transactional Performance of Analytical Systems for True HybridWorkloads". PROCEEDINGS OF THE VLDB ENDOWMENT (2023):
    10.14778/3598581.3598598
  3. Marta Moreno; Ricardo Vilaça; Pedro G. Ferreira. "Scalable transcriptomics analysis with Dask: applications in data science and machine learning". BMC Bioinformatics 23 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-022-05065-3.
    10.1186/s12859-022-05065-3
  4. "Detailed black-box monitoring of distributed systems". ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review 21 1 (2021): 24-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3477133.3477135.
    10.1145/3477133.3477135
  5. VILAÇA, RICARDO. "Parallel Polyglot Query Processing on Heterogeneous Cloud Data Stores with LeanXcale". 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/bigdata.2018.8622187.
    10.1109/bigdata.2018.8622187
  6. Peris, RJ; Martínez, MP; Kemme, B; Brondino, I; Pereira, JO; Vilaça, R; Cruz, F; Oliveira, R; Ahmad, MY. "CumuloNimbo: A Cloud Scalable Multi-tier SQL Database". IEEE Data Eng. Bull. (2015):
  7. Beernaert, L.; Gomes, P.; Matos, M.; Vilaça, R.; Oliveira, R.. "Evaluating Cassandra as a manager of large file sets". Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms, CloudDP 2013 - Co-located with ACM 13th EuroSys (2013): 25-30. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84879510525&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/2460756.2460761
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Vilaça, Ricardo Manuel Pereira. "Clouder : a flexible large scale decentralized object store". PhD, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/23112.

Other

Other output
  1. GORDA: An Open Architecture for Database Replication. 2007. Alfranio Correia Jr.; José Pereira; Luís Rodrigues; Nuno Carvalho; Ricardo Vilaça; Rui Oliveira; Susana Guedes. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/14763.
    10.1109/NCA.2007.26
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023 - Current Developing an Information Security Framework for High-Performance Computing Centers
Supervisor
2023 - Current Study of Python-based workflow engines
Supervisor
2022 - Current Analysing energy-efficiency of MPI communications in HPC environments
Supervisor
2021/09/01 - Current Processing of monitoring data
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/09/01 - Current Ecological footprint for scheduling HPC computational jobs
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/09 - Current SerisBench: A Benchmark for Data Serialisation Libraries
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/09 - Current Secure Data Streaming Solution for Apache Spark
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2022 - 2033 Analysis of trade-offs between performance and energy efficiency of scalable dataframes tools
Supervisor
2022 - 2023 Energy efficiency aware job scheduling for scalable data processing tools
Supervisor
2022 - 2023 Distributed database systems simulator
Co-supervisor
2022 - 2023 Epidemic protocols simulator
Supervisor
2021/09 - 2023 Analysis of I/O patterns for data management systems
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2022/03/11 Orchestration and Distribution of Services in Hybrid Cloud/Edge Environments
Supervisor
2020/09/01 - 2022/03/11 Data Lakes em ambientes h ibridos Cloud/Edge
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia, Portugal
2015 - 2021/11/26 Holistic performance and scalability analysis for large scale distributed systems
Co-supervisor of Francisco Neves
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2021/10/20 Query Optimizers Based on Machine Learning Techniques
Co-supervisor
2015 - 2021/05/04 Secure multi party Computation Trade-offs in distributed Databases
Co-supervisor of Rogério Pontes
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2014 - 2015 On efficient support for relational data in Apache HBase
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2013 - 2015 Database Replication based on Group Communication
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011 - 2012 Bridging the Gap Between SQL and NoSQL
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/07/07 - 2022/07/08 MUG: MACC User Group Workshop 2022, https://macc.fccn.pt/mug2022 (2022/07/07 - 2022/07/08)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2013 - 2015 Founder of the Workshop on Planetary-Scale Distributed Systems - http://wpsds.lsd.di.uminho.pt/. (2013)
Workshop (Member of the Scientific Committee)

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023 Consistent and Efficient Application Caching
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Francisco Mendes (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/01/25 A Multi Level DHT approach through Hierarchical Naming
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Miguel Pomar Monteiro (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Informática, Portugal
2022 Partial replication with strong consistency
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Tiago Matos (Master)
2021/10/11 Graph databases for HR relationships
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Rafael Mouta (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017 Big Data infrastructure for railway maintenance: a case study
(Thesis) Main arguer
 João Simões (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2015 - Current Inforum, CPDLA , Computacao Paralela Distribuida e de Larga Escala
2013 - Current DADS, Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems
2012 - 2014 MW4NG Workshop - Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022 - 2024 Module Big Data in Database Administration (Mestrado)
2018 - 2019 Large Scale Data Management MIEI (Mestrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015 - 2016 Distributed computing MAP-i (Doutoramento) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2010 - 2011 Operating systems and distributed Systems CET de Redes (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica) Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Portugal
2009 - 2010 Distributed Systems LEI (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2008 - 2009 Distributed Systems LEII (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2019/04 - Current Technical Evaluation of Proposals A0, A1, A2 in the 1st and 2nd editions of the National Network for Advanced Computing (RNCA) Advanced Computing Project Competition as representative of the MACC Operational Center.
Evaluator
2023 - 2024 Concurso Projetos Computação Avançada (4ª ed.) - A0 e A1
Evaluator
2022/10/25 - 2023/05/31 Concurso Projetos Computação Avançada (3ª ed.) - A0 e A1
Evaluator
2021 - 2022 Concurso Projetos Computação Avançada (2ª ed.) - A0 e A1
Evaluator
2020 - 2021 Concurso Projetos Computação Avançada (1ª ed.) - A0 e A1
Evaluator

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022/02/10 - Current 90 Segundos de Ciência da Rádio Antena 1 AIDA project develops security solutions for the telecom sector in 5G networks
2020/09/22 - Current Explicador da Rádio Observador About the AIDA project and the challenges of 5G
Distinctions

Award

2007 PhD Grant (SFRH/BD/38529/2007)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2005 University of Minho Merit Award
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2005 Associação Industrial do Minho Award
2005 Best Engineering Student Award (Ordem dos Engenheiros)
2005 Engenheiro António de Almeida Award
Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, Portugal
2005 Governo Civil de Braga and Câmara Municipal de Braga Award (Sociedade Martins Sarmento)
2004 University of Minho Merit Award
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2003 University of Minho Merit Award
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2002 University of Minho Merit Award
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Other distinction

2005 University of Minho Merit Award