João Paulo

João Paulo

Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher at HASLab - INESC TEC and U.Minho

Projects

INOCULUM: Boosting the Immunity of Storage Systems Against Ransomware

Role: Project coordinator
2026 – 2029
The project aims to research novel storage solutions for ensuring data resilience and quick recovery against ransomware attacks.
Partners: INESC TEC
Reference: 15032 (NORTE2030-FEDER-00868400)

Rescueware: Intelligent and Self-configurable Cybersecurity and Data Recovery for Ransomware Resilience

Role: Responsible for INESC TEC’s team and activities
2026 – 2028
The Rescueware project aims to research and develop novel solutions for ransomware detection and recovery solutions for healthcare infrastructures.
Partners: Invisiblelab, INESC TEC, ULSAM
Reference: 21746 (NORTE2030-FEDER-02306900)
Website: https://rescueware.invisiblelab.dev

WISE: Workload-Intelligent Data Storage for Next-Generation Advanced Computing Centers

Role: Project co-coordinator
2025 – 2026
The WISE project aims to revolutionize data management for advanced computing by developing the first generation of storage systems capable of predicting the intrinsic and dynamic I/O patterns of data-intensive workloads and self-tuning their configurations based on such patterns.
Partners: INESC TEC (coordinator), TACC (coordinator)
Reference: UTA Exploratory Research Project
Website: https://utaustinportugal.org/2024-exploratory-research-projects/

BCD.S+M: Modular Blockchain Data Storage and Management System with AI

Role: Responsible for INESC TEC’s team and activities
2024 – 2027
The BCD.S+M project aims at developing new modular and autonomous storage solutions for on-premises, cloud computing and blockchain-based infrastructures and services.
Partners: Invisiblelab, INESC TEC
Reference: 14436–NORTE2030–FEDER–00584600
Website: https://invisiblelab-dev.github.io/invisible-storage-project-website/

ESDM: Efficient and Secure Data Management for HPC and Cloud Computing

Role: Project coordinator
2018 – Present
The project aims at researching novel data management solutions for Cloud and HPC distributed infrastructures.
Reference: CENTRA project
Website: http://www.globalcentra.org/projects/#prv

BigHPC: A Management Framework for Consolidated Big Data and HPC

Role: Responsible for INESC TEC’s team and activities
2020 – 2023
The BigHPC project will provide a novel management framework, for Big Data and parallel computing workloads, that can be seamlessly integrated with existing HPC infrastructures and software stacks.
Partners: Wavecom (coordinator), INESC TEC, LIP, MACC, TACC, UT Austin
Reference: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045924
Website: http://bighpc.wavecom.pt

LazyFS: Lazy Filesystem Project

Role: Project coordinator
2020 – 2020
The LazyFS project aims at providing a lazy file system implementation that can simulate the loss of data that was not synchronized to disk by applications (e.g., databases).
Partners: Jepsen LLC, INESC TEC
Reference: Research contract with Jepsen LLC
Website: https://github.com/dsrhaslab/lazyfs

PAStor: Programmable and Adaptable Storage for AI-oriented HPC Ecosystems

Role: Project co-coordinator
2020 – 2021
The PAstor project aims at providing a novel Software-Defined Storage (SDS) solution for HPC that can efficiently handle I/O flows from multiple AI workloads by automatically adjusting storage configurations and resources to meet applications dynamic requirements.
Partners: INESC TEC (coordinator), TACC (coordinator), MACC, Hood College
Reference: UTA-EXPL/CA/0075/2019
Website: https://pastor-project.github.io

ACT-PM: Automating Crash-Consistency Testing for Persistent Memory

Role: Responsible for INESC TEC’s team and activities
2020 – 2021
The research conducted in this project, and the resulting tools, will advance the state-of-the-art in the above areas and improve the workflow and efficiency of PM application developers to ultimately leading to safer and more performant applications that fully leverage PM capabilities.
Partners: INESC TEC (coordinator), UTAustin (coordinator), INESC TEC
Reference: UTA-EXPL/CA/0080/2019
Website: https://utaustinportugal.org/projects/act-pm-automating-crash-consistency-testing-for-persistent-memory/

IBM Research Joint Study Agreement

Role: Project coordinator
2018 – 2020
IBM Research and INESC TEC participate in a joint study in which the parties will do research on novel benchmarking solutions for storage systems with deduplication and compression capabilities, and on novel secure and privacy-preserving storage paradigms. I am currently the coordinator of this project on behalf of HASLab.
Partners: INESC TEC, IBM Haifa

Participation in other Research Projects