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Degrees
Paulo Ferreira holds a PhD from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (1996) in Computer Science. His MSc (1992) and BSc (1988) are both from Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) in Electrotechnical Engineering. He holds the “ agregação ” since November 2009 from the same University and collaborates with INESC ID where he did research for several years in the Distributed Systems Group.
He has published, as author or co-author, more than 120 articles in international journals and conferences, 1 scientific book, 11 book chapters, a pedagogical book (with 3 editions, being one in Brazil), serves on various program committees (e.g. Middleware, ICDCS, DAIS, etc.), served as an expert to the European Union for assessment of projects proposals under the 7th Framework Program, led more than 15 research projects, was one of the founders and board officer of EuroSys (ACM - European Chapter of the Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) being currently member of the Steering Committee; he is also a member of the Steering Committee of the ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware and ACM/IFIP/Usenix Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM). He is currently member of the editorial board of the Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications.
He is senior member of ACM and IEEE, was awarded two Best Paper Awards at international events (ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference, level A in both CORE and RADIST rankings), 1 Recognition of Service Award from ACM, his PhD thesis was top ranked at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and in the academic years of 2010/2011 (2nd semester) and 2013/14 (1st semester) he was awarded the mention of “excellent teaching” at the University of Lisbon in the courses of Mobile Computing (MSc, 1st year) and Operating Systems (BSc, 2nd year), respectively.
Publications
reverse chronological order at DBLP at Google Scholar
PhD Thesis Supervision
Currently supervising the following PhD students:
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Mahdieh Kamalian (https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/mahdiehk/) - detecting automatically what transport mode you are using with a smartphone.
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Lyla Naghipour Vijouyeh (https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/people/aca/lylan/) - create a fog emulator that is capable of dealing with moving and stationary devices
The full list can be found in the following link:PhD Thesis
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