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Francisco Almeida Maia. Completed the Doutoramento in MAP-i Doctoral Program in Informatics in 2015 by Universidade do Minho. Is Assistant Professor in Universidade do Porto. Published more than 20 articles in top-level conferences. Organized 2 event(s). Co-supervised 4 MSc dissertation(s). Has received 2 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as Other in 1 project(s) and Researcher in 4 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Engineering and Technology with emphasis on Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Francisco Almeida Maia

Citation names

  • Maia, Francisco

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5811-C7C5-0D50
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0729-4569

Email addresses

  • franciscomaia@fe.up.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Italian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2015
Concluded
 MAP-i Doctoral Program in Informatics (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Epidemic store for massive scale systems" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito bom
2009
Concluded
 Mestrado em Engenharia Informática (Mestrado)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Bolt Cloud - A Working Set Dissemination Service" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2007
Concluded
 Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 15
2004
Concluded
 Ensino Secundário (Ensino secundário)
Escola Secundária Carlos Amarante, Portugal
 18
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/01/15 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2024 - 2025/01/14 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2016 - 2025/01/14 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Braga, Portugal
2021 - 2023 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022 - 2025/01/14 Partner IL Technologies, Lda, Portugal
2019 - 2024 Founder and CEO Keyruptive Technologies, Lda, Portugal
2017 - 2022 Founder and CEO SafeCloud Technologies, Sàrl, Switzerland
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019 - 2019 CloudDBAppliance
732051
Researcher
Concluded
2016 - 2019 SafeCloud: Secure and Resilient Cloud Architecture
H2020-DS-2014-1/653884
Researcher
Concluded
2010 - 2013 Stratus - A Layered Approach to Data Management in the Cloud
FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-015020
Researcher
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Concluded
2008 - 2010 DC2MS – Dependable Cloud Computing Management System
HP Labs Grant IRA/CW118736
Researcher
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020 - 2021 STAYAWAY COVID
STAYAWAY COVID
Technical Lead
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Pontes, R; Maia, F; Vilaca, R; Machado, N. "D'Artagnan: A Trusted NoSQL Database on Untrusted Clouds". 2019.
    10.1109/srds47363.2019.00017
  2. Machado, N; Maia, F; Neves, F; Coelho, F; Pereira, J. "Minha: Large-Scale Distributed Systems Testing Made Practical". 2019.
    10.4230/lipics.opodis.2019.11
  3. Ribeiro, J; Machado, N; Maia, F; Matos, M. "Totally Ordered Replication for Massive Scale Key-Value Stores". 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-93767-0_5
  4. Maia, F. "Data Management and Privacy in a World of Data Wealth". 2017.
    10.1109/EDCC.2017.34
  5. Barbosa, M; Ben Mokhtar, S; Felber, P; Maia, F; Matos, M; Oliveira, R; Riviere, E; Schiavoni, V; Voulgaris, S. "SAFETHINGS: Data Security by Design in the IoT". 2017.
    10.1109/edcc.2017.33
  6. Pontes, Rogerio; Burihabwa, Dorian; Maia, Francisco; Paulo, Joao; Schiavoni, Valerio; Felber, Pascal; Mercier, Hugues; Oliveira, Rui. "SafeFS: a modular architecture for secure user-space file systems: one FUSE to rule them all". 2017.
    10.1145/3078468.3078480
  7. Maia, F; Paulo, J; Coelho, F; Neves, F; Pereira, J; Oliveira, R. "DDFlasks: Deduplicated Very Large Scale Data Store". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-59665-5_4
  8. Machado, N; Maia, F; Matos, M; Oliveira, R. "BUZZPSS: A Dependable and Adaptive Peer Sampling Service". 2016.
    10.1109/ladc.2016.20
  9. Burihabwa, D; Pontes, R; Felber, P; Maia, F; Mercier, H; Oliveira, R; Paulo, J; Schiavoni, V. "On the Cost of Safe Storage for Public Clouds: an Experimental Evaluation". 2016.
    10.1109/srds.2016.26
  10. Maia, F; Matos, M; Coelho, F. "Towards Quantifiable Eventual Consistency". 2016.
    10.5220/0005929103
  11. Cruz, F; Maia, F; Matos, M; Oliveira, R; Paulo, J; Pereira, J; Vilaca, R. "Resource Usage Prediction in Distributed Key-Value Datastores". 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-39577-7_12
  12. Pontes, R; Maia, F; Paulo, J; Vilaca, R. "SafeRegions: Performance evaluation of multi-party protocols on HBase". 2016.
    10.1109/srdsw.2016.16
  13. Jorge, T; Maia, F; Matos, M; Pereira, J; Oliveira, R. "Practical evaluation of large scale applications". 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-19129-4_10
  14. Cruz, F; Maia, F; Oliveira, R; Vilaca, R. "Workload-aware table splitting for NoSQL". 2014.
    10.1145/2554850.2555027
  15. Pasquet, M; Maia, F; Riviere, E; Schiavoni, V. "Autonomous Multi-dimensional Slicing for Large-Scale Distributed Systems". 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-662-43352-2_12
  16. Maia, F; Matos, M; Vilaca, R; Pereira, J; Oliveira, R; Riviere, E. "DATAFLASKS: epidemic store for massive scale systems". 2014.
    10.1109/srds.2014.34
  17. Maia, F; Matos, M; Vilaca, R; Pereira, J; Oliveira, R; Riviere, E. "DATAFLASKS: an epidemic dependable key-value substrate". 2013.
    10.1109/dsn.2013.6575326
  18. Maia, F; Matos, M; Oliveira, R; Riviere, E. "Slicing as a Distributed Systems Primitive". 2013.
    10.1109/ladc.2013.21
Edited book
  1. Maia, F; Mercier, H; Brito, A, ed. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Privacy by Design in Distributed Systems, P2DS@EuroSys 2018, Porto, Portugal, April 23, 2018. 2018.
    10.1145/3195258
Journal article
  1. Cruz, F.; Maia, F.; Matos, M.; Oliveira, R.; Paulo, J.; Pereira, J.; Vilaça, R.. "MeT: Workload aware elasticity for NoSQL". Proceedings of the 8th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys 2013 (2013): 183-196. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84877704282&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/2465351.2465370
  2. Maia, F.; Matos, M.; Rivière, E.; Oliveira, R.. "Slead: Low-memory, steady distributed systems slicing". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 7272 LNCS (2012): 1-15. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84862735561&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-30823-9_1
  3. Maia, F.; Matos, M.; Pereira, J.; Oliveira, R.. "Worldwide consensus". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6723 LNCS (2011): 257-269. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79959935090&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-21387-8_21
  4. Maia, F.; Armendáriz-Iñigo, J.E.; Ruiz-Fuertes, M.I.; Oliveira, R.. "Scalable transactions in the cloud: Partitioning revisited". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6427 LNCS PART 2 (2010): 785-797. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78650002822&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-16949-6_8
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022 - 2023 "Fault-tolerant and Large-scale Storage for POSIX-compliant Applications"
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Engenharia Informática
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020 - 2021 "Implementation of practical and secure methods for storage of cryptographic keys in applications"
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2020 - 2021 "LSFS: Sistema de ficheiros tolerante a faltas para armazenamento em larga escala"
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017 - 2018 "Aplicacações Web com requisitos de armazenamento e processamento privados"
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017 - 2018 "SafePolyglot: Sistema Poliglota de Gestão Privada de Dados"
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016 - 2017 "Coerência probabilística em sistemas chave-valor escaláveis"
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016 - 2017 "Automatic Adaptation to Heterogeneity in Large Scale Distributed Storage Systems"
Co-supervisor

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2018 - 2018 Workshop on Privacy by Design in Distributed Systems (W-P2DS) (2018 - 2018)
2016 - 2016 Workshop on Planetary-Scale Distributed Systems (W-PSDS) co-located with SRDS (2016 - 2016)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2025 - Current ACM

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2016 - 2024 INFORUM Symposium de Informática (Computação Paralela, Distribuída e de Larga Escala)
2022 - 2022 First Workshop on Blockchain Technologies and Trusted Execution Environments (BlockTEE)
2018 - 2018 18th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference (DAIS)
2018 - 2018 1st Workshop on GDPR Compliant Systems
2016 - 2016 XVII Workshop de Testes e Tolerância a Falhas em paralelo com o Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos
Distinctions

Award

2017 Best student paper award - "SafeFS: a modular architecture for secure user-space file systems: one FUSE to rule them all"
2011 Best paper award - "Worldwide Consensus"