Paulo Ferreira

Instituto Superior Técnico

 

Next relevant events: 

        - teses 2011/2012

   - EuroSys Roger Needham PhD Award 2011 

            - Middleware 2011 

 
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Currently, I'm a senior researcher at INESC where I  lead the Distributed Systems Group since 1998.  

I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6). As a Ph.D. student (from 1992 to 1996) I did my research at INRIA (in Rocquencourt, near Paris) in the group SOR. I have a Ms.C. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Lisbon (IST). While a Ms.C. student I did my research at INESC. 

I'm associate professor at IST (Engineering School of the Technical University of Lisbon) where I've been teaching for many years. In 1996 I've created the discipline called ARGE ("Aplicações em Redes de Grandes Escala") which then changed its name to PADI ("Plataformas e Aplicações para na Internet") as it is called now; I've teached this discipline since 1996 up to 2006/07 both at Alameda (MEIC) and at TagusPark (MERC). 

In the past I've also teached Operating Systems (Sistemas Operativos). More recently, I've created another discipline called Mobile Computing ("Computação Móvel") which I'm teaching at both campus of IST (Alameda and Tagus). 

Regarding more advanced disciplines (Masters and PhD levels), I've teached Distributed Systems Computing ("Computação em Sistemas Distribuídos") and Ubiqutous Computing ("Computação Ubíqua"). Currently, I'm teaching a new discipline called Advanced Distributed Systems ("Sistemas Distribuídos Avançados") for PhD students.

I have participated in several European Projects such as Comandos, Harness, Broadcast, PerDiS, etc. Additionally, I' was the leader of several international and national funded projects such as OBIWAN (funded by Microsoft Research Cambridge) , Haddock-FS (funded by Microsoft Research Cambridge), UbiRep (funded by FCT), MobilerTrans (funded by FCT), and many others. 

My scientific interests are: system support for large-scale distributed data sharing, replication and consistency protocols, distributed garbage collection, persistence by reachability, operating systems, large-scale distributed applications, internet protocols.
Thesis Supervision

If you are interested in joining the Distributed Systems Group you are welcome!

Here you can find some of the work my students have been doing:

 

Publications

Publications (reverse chronological order; by type; by theme)

 

Awards/Mentions

- Mentor of the winning team  of Microsoft ImgineCup Portugal, 2010 (projecto Ubilert)  representing Portugal in the worlwide final in Poland.
- Best paper at ACM/IFIP/Usenix International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2007), Sep. 2007, Springer.  Vector-Field Consistency for Ad-hoc Gaming. Nuno Santos, Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira. ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2007.
- ACM recognition award 2007.
- Nominations for Best paper award:
     - Object-Swapping for Resource-Constrained Devices. Luís Veiga, Paulo Ferreira. 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. 2nd International Conference on Innovative Views of .Net, 2006.
Disciplines I've teached (in Portuguese):
Scientific Events and Organizations
Other Interests
Sailing, football, traveling.

Address

INESC
Rua Alves Redol 9 - 6 Andar
1000 Lisboa
Portugal

Tel.: +351(21) 31 00 230
Fax.: +351 (21) 31 45 843
Email: Paulo Ferreira