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A Brief CV

12th ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference
Erasmus Mundus in Distributed Computing

About Me

• Assistant Professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Department (DEI) at Instituto Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon (March 2007-)
  • previously Teaching Assistant and Lecturer: March 2001 to March 2007
• Researcher with the Distributed Systems Group of INESC ID, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores em Lisboa (2000-).
• Ph.D in in Computer Engineering. OBIWAN: A Middleware for Memory Management of Replicated Objects in Distributed and Mobile Computing. Advisor: Paulo Ferreira at Instituto Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon, March 2007.
• Master of Science in Computer Engineering. Distributed Garbage Collection for Wide Area Replicated Memory. Advisor: Paulo Ferreira at Instituto Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon, July 2001.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon, December 1998.

Research Interests

Distributed systems, distributed garbage collection, replication, middleware for mobile computing, virtual machines, grid and peer-to-peer computing

Teaching

• Virtual Execution Environments (AVExe) at MEIC-Alameda
  
  • Virtual Machine principles, tecnhiques and implementations; System and Application-level VMs. Distributed and parallel deployments; Virtual clustering and migration; Case-studies: VMWare GSX/ESX, IBM Jikes Java RVM, VMWare Virtual Center, Dynamo-RIO, FX!32.
• Middleware for Distributed Systems (PADI) at MEIC-Tagus/MERC
  
• Operating Systems
  

Homepage at IST

Publications

Short list of representative publications
Updated publication list at INESC-ID Database
Publications at DBLP (partial)
Publications at Google Scholar
Publications at Microsoft Academic Search

Editorships

• M-MPAC 2010 Middleware Workshop (sponsored by MiNEMA, co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference); Luís Veiga, Sotirios Terzis (Eds.), Dec. 2010, ACM.
• M-MPAC 2009 Middleware Workshop (sponsored by MiNEMA, co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference); Sotirios Terzis, Oriana Riva, Luís Veiga (Eds.), Dec. 2009, ACM.
• MobMid 2008 - Mobile Middleware: Embracing the Personal Communication Device (sponsored by MiNEMA, co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference); Oriana Riva, Luís Veiga (Eds.), Dec. 2008, ACM.
• International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java; Luís Veiga, Vasco Amaral, Nigel Horspool, Giacomo Cabri (Eds.), Sep. 2008, ACM.
• International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java; Vasco Amaral, Luís Marcelino, Luís Veiga, H. Conrad Cunningham (Eds.), Sep. 2007, ACM.
• ACM EuroSys Conference, Paulo Ferreira, Thomas R. Gross, Luís Veiga (Eds.), Mar. 2007, ACM.

Activities / Committees

Updated list of Activities

• General Chair for ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2011
• INFORUM 2011 National Conference
• M-MPAC Workshop at Middleware 2010
• ARM Workshop at Middleware 2010
• INFORUM 2010 National Conference
• M-MPAC Workshop at Middleware 2009
• ARM Workshop at Middleware 2009
• INFORUM 2009 National Conference

Awards / Mentions

• Best paper award for Vector-Field Consistency for Ad-hoc Gaming; Nuno Santos, Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira at ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2007.
• Excellence result in teaching at IST mention for 2008 (Top-10 instructor/course overall gathered from student-filled inquiries).
• Nominations for Best paper award
  • Object-Swapping for Resource-Constrained Devices; Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira at 5th Int. Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'07), ICDCS Workshops 2007.
  • Extending .NET Remoting with Distributed Garbage Collection; Paulo Pereira, Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira at 2nd International Conference on Innovative Views of .Net, 2006.

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