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 CENTRA, Compete2020 BigHPC, BCD.S+M, BringTrust, and Rescueware, among others. In addition to her research, Tânia has served the scientific community as a reviewer. She was on the program committee for the Middleware conference (Middleware'26), and the shadow PC for EuroSys 2025, and has participated in the artifact evaluation committees for DAIS (2023 and 2025), SOSP (2025), and EuroSys (2025 and 2026). She has also served as an invited reviewer for TPDS (2024), the Journal of Supercomputing (2026), and SCICO (2024 and 2026). Furthermore, Tânia is actively involved in student supervision, currently co-supervising two PhD and four MSc students, and has successfully completed another five MSc supervisions. She has also supervised several BSc and MSc students on research and academic projects in I/O observability, storage optimization, ransomware analysis, and eBPF, totaling 29 students across 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: psaIFX0AAAAJ&hl
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

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2026/01/02 - Current	Rescueware: Intelligent and Self-configurable Cybersecurity and Data Recovery for Ransomware Resilience 21746 (NORTE2030-FEDER-02306900) Researcher	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte Ongoing
2025 - Current	BringTrust: Strengthening CI/CD Pipeline Cybersecurity and Safeguarding the Intellectual Property 18493 (COMPETE2030-FEDER-01489500) 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 (NORTE2030-FEDER-00584600) Post-doc	Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte Ongoing
2023 - Current	ATE: Alliance for Energy Transition - Researcher	Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP Ongoing
2026/05/15 - 2029/05/13	INOCULUM: Boosting the Immunity of Storage Systems Against Ransomware 15032 (NORTE2030-FEDER-00868400) Researcher	Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento 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
2025 - Current	WISE: Workload-Intelligent Data Storage for Next-Generation Advanced Computing Centers - Researcher	Ongoing
2018/06 - Current	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 Oliveira, Rui Pedro; Esteves, Tânia; Paulo, João. "Speed Kills: Revisiting Data Deduplication for Modern Storage Devices". Paper presented in Workshop on Reliable Large-scale Data Management (RLDM’25), colocated with SRDS, 2025. 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
2025/12 - Current	Redesigning and Optimizing eBPF for Observability and Tuning of Modern Systems. Co-advised with João Paulo Supervisor of Carlos Machado	Informática (PhD) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025/09 - 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
2025/09 - 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
2025/09 - Current	Automating Storage Fault Injection. Co-advised with João Paulo. Co-supervisor of Paula Marques	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025/09 - Current	Dataspace connector for Agentic AI. Co-advised with Fábio Coelho. Co-supervisor of Gonçalo Marinho	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2025/03 - Current	Secure and Resilient Storage Systems Against Ransomware. Co-advised with João Paulo Supervisor of Bruno Pereira	Informática (PhD) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/12/18	Characterizing and Predicting the I/O Patterns of HPC Applications. Co-advised with João Paulo. Co-supervisor of Ana Rita Vaz	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/11/11	Bridging the Gap: A Comparison of the Design, Efficiency, and Fidelity of eBPF Libraries Co-supervisor of Carlos Machado	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/09 - 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	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/09 - 2024	Reproducible Fault Injection in Local Storage Systems. Co-advised with João Paulo and Ricardo Macedo. Co-supervisor of Maria Ramos	Engenharia Informática (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	Engenharia Informática (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

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2026/01/20 - 2026/01/20	Lecturer for a Docker workshop, presenting fundamental concepts and practical exercises using Docker and Docker Compose. The workshop was delivered in collaboration with Prof. João Paulo for members of EPIC JÚNIOR, the first junior engineering company at the University of Minho. Workshop	Workshop Docker EPIC Júnior, Portugal
2025/04/22 - 2025/04/22	Lecturer for a Docker workshop, covering core concepts and hands-on examples with Docker and Docker Compose. The workshop was conducted alongside Prof. João Paulo for students at the University of Minho’s Software Engineering Students’ Center (CESIUM). Workshop	Workshop Docker Centro de Estudantes de Engenharia Informática da Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2026 - 2026	The Journal of Supercomputing	Springer Netherlands
2024 - 2026	Science of Computer Programming	Elsevier B.V
2024 - 2024	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	IEEE Computer Society

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2026 - 2026	27th ACM International Middleware Conference (Middleware’26)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2026 - Current	Lecturer of the Operating Systems Technologies class.	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - Current	Lecturer of the Operating Systems class laboratories	Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021 - Current	Lecturer of the Cloud Computing Applications and Services class laboratories.	Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023 - 2025	Lecturer of the Operating Systems class laboratories.	Ciências da Computação (Licenciatura)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2025 - Current	Research on static analysis of CI/CD pipelines. Co-advised with Cláudia Brito.	Henrique Fernandes
2025 - Current	Research on eBPF applied to ransomware detection.	Carlos Sanches
2025/09 - 2025/11	System Resource Analysis for HPC Jobs in User Space. Co-advised with Cláudia Brito and António Sousa.	Augusto Campos, João Abreu and Tiago Silva
2025/09 - 2025/11	Explaining eBPF Verifier Logs using LLMs. Co-advised with Cláudia Brito.	Bruno Gião, Inês Castro and Paula Marques
2024 - 2025	Research on Kubernetes applied to data spaces. Co-advised with Fábio Coelho.	Gonçalo Marinho and Henrique Vaz
2024 - 2025	Reproducible storage fault injection. Co-advised with João Paulo and Maria Ramos.	Paula Marques
2023 - 2025	Research on hybrid deduplication for SPDK. Co-advised with João Paulo.	Rui Pedro Oliveira
2023 - 2025	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
2025 - 2026	Artifact Evaluation Committee Member at EuroSys'26.
2025 - 2025	Artifact Evaluation Committee Member at DAIS'25.
2025 - 2025	Artifact Evaluation Committee Member at SOSP'25.
2024 - 2025	Artifact Evaluation Committee Member at EuroSys'25.
2024 - 2025	Shadow PC committee member of EuroSys'25.
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).