Bio

João Paulo is an assistant professor at University of Minho and a senior researcher at INESC TEC. He obtained his Ph.D degree in 2015 and is currently leading the HASLab’s research team working on distributed storage systems and data management for HPC and Cloud Computing environments - https://dsr-haslab.github.io.

His research is focused on large-scale distributed systems with an emphasis on storage and database systems’ scalability, performance, security, and dependability. Namely, he is interested in the applicability of such research for solving complex data management challenges for Cloud Computing and HPC centers.

He has several publications in top journals and international conferences (ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Storage, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Eurosys, VLDB, Usenix FAST, CCGrid, SRDS) and has served the committee of distinct conferences on storage and distributed systems, such as Middleware, IEEE Cloud, CCGrid, SRDS, SYSTOR, DAIS, Usenix HotStorage.

He is currently the coordinator of the FCT IC&DT INOCULUM project, the PT-UTAustin WISE Exploratory project, and the “Efficient and Secure Data Management for HPC and Cloud Computing” CENTRA project. In the past, he coordinated the PAStor PT-UTAustin Exploratory project, the LazyFS project with Jepsen LCC, and the JSA-IBM collaboration with IBM. Currently, he is also responsible for INESC TEC’s activities on the Rescueware and BCD.S+M P2030 national innovation projects and was responsible for INESC TEC’s activities on the Compete2020 BigHPC international project and the ACTPM PT-UTAustin Exploratory project. Further, he is participating in the BringTrust and CDMS P2030 projects, and has participated in the PASTRAMY and RED national projects, and in the FP7 CoherentPaaS and H2020 SafeCloud European projects.