27 December 2021
Welcoming Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira to the Editorial Board of Software
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira has joined Software as an Editorial Board Member.
Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira holds a Ph.D. from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (1996) in Systemes Informatiques with equivalence from the Technical University of Lisbon in Engenharia Informática e de Computadores (1997). His M.Sc. (1992) and B.Sc. (1988) are both from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) in Electrotechnical Engineering. He has held the Habilitation from the same University since November 2009.
He is currently a Full Professor at the University of Oslo, where he supervises four Ph.D. students and several M.Sc. students and teaches two master-level courses (Fog Computing and Programming for Ubiquitous Things). Previously, he was with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Lisbon, where he taught courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including Operating Systems, Mobile Computing, Middleware for Distributed Internet Applications, and Advanced Distributed Systems.
He led the Distributed Systems Group at INESC ID from 1999 to 2010 (and in alternating biennia since 2010). His interests and research work belong to the scientific area of operating systems and distributed systems, with an emphasis on middleware, large-scale, and mobile computing; and he has supervised 14 Ph.D. students and more than 70 M.Sc. students.
He coordinated and participated in many national and international projects (having been the EU coordinator of the H2020 TRACE project): Comandos, Harness, Broadcast, Flash, PerDIS, Timbus, C4E, TRACE, MoTiV (funded by European Union), OBIWAN, DGG-Rotor, Haddock-FS (funded by Microsoft Research), Mnemosyne, MobileTrans, Electronic Democracy, UbiRep, and novaVM (funded by the Portuguese science and technology foundation), etc. Prof. Dr. Ferreira has also served in many consultancy projects for private and public institutions (national and international) in the area of distributed systems (e.g., Java virtual machine, security).
Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira was Pro-Rector at the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) between 2007 and 2010, responsible for the analysis and evaluation of existing information and communication systems.
He is the author or co-author of more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific communications, 1 book on operating systems (edited both in Portugal and Brazil), 1 book in distributed context-aware systems (edited by Springer), and has received 2 ACM/IFIP Middleware best paper awards. He has served on various program committees of top-level international conferences, and performed reviews for several international journals. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications, and he served as an expert to the European Union for the assessment of projects proposals under the 7th Framework Program. In addition, he was PC-Chair (with Liuba Shrira) of ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware 2018. He was one of the founders of EuroSys (ACM - European Chapter of the Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) and one of the officers and a member of the Steering Committee. Currently, he is a member of the Steering Committees of EuroSys, ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware (from 2011 to 2014 and since 2017), and a member of ACM/IFIP/Usenix Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (since 2014).
He was awarded the mention of “excellent teaching” four times, he is a senior member of ACM and IEEE, and he has received two Best Paper Awards at international events (ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference).
