Paulo Jorge Esteves Veríssimo

Professor
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências
(University of Lisboa, Faculty of Sciences)


Breve Curriculum Vitae

Paulo Jorge Esteves Veríssimo é doutorado e agregado em Eng. Electrotécnica e de Computadores, pelo IST. Esteve no Instituto Superior Técnico de 1979 a 1995, e esteve no INESC desde a sua fundação em 1980, onde liderou o Grupo Navigators até à sua saída em 1996. É correntemente professor no Departamento de Informática da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~pjv). Aí, é responsável por disciplinas nos vários domínios dos sistemas distribuídos. Reestruturou e foi Responsável (1995--2004) pelos Recursos de Informática do DI (http://admin.di.fc.ul.pt), com cerca de 1000 utilizadores. Foi Presidente do DI (biénio 1999-2001). Foi Director fundador do Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande-Escala, LASIGE (http://lasige.di.fc.ul.pt), integrado no DI (biénio 1999-2001), e foi de novo Director (2006-10).

É Fellow do IEEE e Fellow da ACM. É editor associado do Int’l Journal on Critical Infrastructure Protection (IJCIP) da Elsevier (2008---). Foi Presidente do IEEE Technical Committee on Fault Tolerant Computing (2003-04) e do Steering Committee da conferência DSN. Pertenceu ao European Security & Dependability Advisory Board. Foi editor associado das IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2004-08), e da revista Telecommunications Systems Journal (Baltzer), e é desde há vários anos consultor da Comissão Europeia para as Tecnologias da Informação. Pertenceu ao Conselho Executivo da ``CaberNet European Network of Excellence'' e presidiu à respectiva Comissão de Serviços de Informação. Foi Coordenador do projecto Europeu IST/FET CORTEX (http://cortex.di.fc.ul.pt).

É ou foi membro de comissões de avaliação para várias instituições reputadas, entre as quais: France Telecom Research (FR), LAAS (FR), INRIA (FR), European Research Council (EU), Esprit and IST Programmes (EU), Université de Rennes (FR), CINECA (IT), IBM Scientific Prize (PT), IEEE Computer Society Fellows Evaluation Committee (US). É frequentemente solicitado como avaliador para contratações e promoções nas universidades de topo dos USA. Foi co-presidente da comissão internacional de programa da conferência IEEE/IFIP DSN 2001 (ex-FTCS/DCCA), General Chair da edição de 2009 dessa conferência, e esteve em variadas comissões de programa internacionais de outras (IEEE, AFCET, IFIP, ACM). É membro do ACM, da Ordem dos Engenheiros, e do IFIP “Work. Group 10.4 on Dependable Comp. and Fault-Tolerance”.

Paulo Veríssimo lidera o grupo de investigação Navigators integrado no LASIGE (http://www.navigators.di.fc.ul.pt/), e interessa-se correntemente por: arquitectura, algoritmos e subsistemas de suporte (middleware) para sistemas distribuídos, embebidos e permeantes (pervasive), nas facetas de adaptabilidade em tempo-real e segurança e tolerância a faltas/intrusões. O seu grupo tem aplicado estes domínios em: suporte para controlo industrial distribuído, sistemas embebidos e inteligência ambiental; infraestruturas de informação críticas e aplicações abertas e grande-escala; ambientes móveis autónomos e inter-pares (peer-to-peer). É autor ou co-autor de mais de 160 publicações em conferências ou revistas internacionais com revisão. É co-autor de cinco livros internacionais nestas áreas (ex. http://www.navigators.di.fc.ul.pt/dssa/), e proferiu diversos keynote speeches, tutoriais e seminários em conferências, universidades e institutos europeus e americanos, em tolerância a faltas e intrusões, tempo-real e segurança em sistemas distribuídos. Organizou e leccionou no Curso Internacional em Sistemas Distribuídos LISBOA'92. Organizou e foi director do European Research Seminar on Advances on Distributed Systems, ERSADS’99. Organizou a participação da FCUL na parceira internacional Carnegie Mellon | Portugal. Esteve na final do Descartes European Science Prize 2004, liderando uma equipa da FCUL com o trabalho no projecto MAFTIA. Como investigador sénior, esteve envolvido na conquista de dois Prémios Científicos IBM (2004 e 2007) por investigadores da sua equipa.

Tem estado envolvido em diversos projectos nacionais e europeus (FCT, ESPRIT/IST). Participou na concepção de diversos protótipos industriais. Tem colaborado regularmente com instituições e empresas nacionais, e é frequentemente solicitado pelos média, acerca de problemas de segurança e criminalidade informáticas.

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Short Curriculum Vitae

Paulo Jorge Esteves Veríssimo has a PhD (1990) and “Agregação” (1994) in Electrotechnical and Computer Enginering from the Technical University of Lisboa IST. He has been with the IST from 1979 to 1995, and was with INESC since its foundation, in 1980, where he leaded the Navigators Group until he left in 1996. He is currently a Professor of the Department of Informatics (DI), University of Lisboa Faculty of Sciences (http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~pjv). He is responsible for several courses on domains of distributed systems. He has re-structured and was responsible for the Computing Infrastructure of the DI (1995-2004) (http://admin.di.fc.ul.pt), with circa 1000 users. He was head of the DI (1999-2001). He was founding Director of the Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory, LASIGE (http://lasige.di.fc.ul.pt) (1999-2001) and was Director again (2006-10).

He is Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the ACM. He is associate editor of the Elsevier Int’l Journal on Critical Infrastructure Protection (IJCIP - 2008---). He is past Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing (2003-04) and of the Steering Committee of the DSN conference. He belonged to the European Security & Dependability Advisory Board. He has been an associate editor for the IEEE Tacs. on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC - 2004-08), and the Baltzer Telecommunications Systems Journal, and has been for several years now consultant to the European Commission in Information Technologies. He belonged to the Executive Board of the CaberNet European Network of Excellence. He coordinated the CORTEX IST/FET project (http://cortex.di.fc.ul.pt).

He is or was member of evaluation panels for a number of reputed institutions, amongst which: France Telecom Research (FR), LAAS (FR), INRIA (FR), European Research Council (EU), Esprit and IST Programmes (EU), Université de Rennes (FR), CINECA (IT), IBM Scientific Prize (PT), IEEE Computer Society Fellows Evaluation Committee (US). He is often solicited to referee for hiring and promotions in the top US universities. He served as international program co-chair of the IEEE/IFIP Dependable Systems and Networks DSN-01 conference, and has served on the programme committees of several other conferences (IEEE, AFCET, IFIP, ACM). He is a member of the ACM, Ordem dos Engenheiros, and of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance.

Paulo Veríssimo leads the Navigators research group (http://www.navigators.di.fc.ul.pt/) of LASIGE, and is currently interested in: architecture, middleware and protocols for distributed, pervasive and embedded systems, namely the facets of real-time adaptability and fault/intrusion tolerance. His group also pursues the applications of the aforementioned domains to: support for distributed computer control, embedded systems and ambient intelligence; critical information infrastructures and open and lar-scale information systems and applications; mobile autonomous and peer-to-peer environments.

He is author or co-author of more than 160 refereed publications in international scientific conferences and journals. He is co-author of 5 international books and has given several keynote speeches, tutorials and seminars in conferences, universities and institutions in Europe and Americas, on fault and intrusion –tolerance, real-time and security in distributed systems. The work of PJV is featured in known authors’ books, such as, K. Birman, R. Chow, G. Coulouris, H. Kopetz, P. Jalote, and A. Tanenbaum.

He organised and lectured in the LISBOA'92 Advanced Course on Distributed Systems, and organised and was director of the European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems, ERSADS'99. PJV organized the FCUL participation in the Carnegie Mellon | Portugal international partnership. He was in the finals of the Descartes European Science Prize 2004, leading a FCUL team integrated in the MAFTIA project, and has been senior researcher to two winners of the IBM Scientific Award (2004 and 2007).

He is/was project team leader in several National and EU projects (FCT, ESPRIT/IST):  CRUTIAL, HIDENETS, MAFTIA, RESIST, SecureIST, ESFORS, CaberNet, CORTEX, TACID, DARIO, ARTIST, AJECT, RITAS, DEFEATS, COPE, Delta-4, Dinas, GODC, BROADCAST, MICRA, DEAR-COTS, Bank-92, Elena. He took part in the design of several industrial prototypes of fault-tolerant, secure and real-time systems. Veríssimo has regular collaboration with national companies and institutions, in problems related with dependability and security. Other activities closely related with security: participation in the MAFTIA project; collaboration with the investigation police on technical matters; security auditing and testing of the Portuguese Government Network; high-level courses on security and dependability. He is frequently featured on media to comment on situations related with informatics security and crime.

 

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