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I am currently an auxiliar professor at University of Minho and senior researcher at INESC TEC. I have obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from the MAP-i Doctoral Program in Computer Science. Currently, I am working on large scale distributed systems with an emphasis on storage and database systems’ scalability, performance, security and dependability. Also, I am interested on the applicability of this research work for solving complex data management challenges for Cloud Computing and HPC centres.

I am the coordinator of the PAStor PT-UTAustin exploratory project and the “Efficient and Secure Data Management for HPC and Cloud Computing” CENTRA project, while leading INESC TEC’s activities on the Compete2020 BigHPC project and ACTPM PT-UTAustin exploratory project. Also, I have several publications in renowned journals and international conferences (e.g., ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM Transactions on Storage, Eurosys, SRDS, SYSTOR).

For more information you can check my personal web page at https://jtpaulo.github.io, as well as, HASLab's research lines on the topics mentioned above: https://dsr-haslab.github.io and https://dbr-haslab.github.io

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  • Name

    João Tiago Paulo
  • Role

    Senior Researcher
  • Since

    01st November 2011
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Publications

2023

Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems - 23rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2023, Held as Part of the 18th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, June 19-23, 2023, Proceedings

Authors
Martínez, MP; Paulo, J;

Publication
DAIS

Abstract

2023

Soteria: Preserving Privacy in Distributed Machine Learning

Authors
Brito, C; Ferreira, P; Portela, B; Oliveira, R; Paulo, J;

Publication
38TH ANNUAL ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING, SAC 2023

Abstract
We propose Soteria, a system for distributed privacy-preserving Machine Learning (ML) that leverages Trusted Execution Environments (e.g. Intel SGX) to run code in isolated containers (enclaves). Unlike previous work, where all ML-related computation is performed at trusted enclaves, we introduce a hybrid scheme, combining computation done inside and outside these enclaves. The conducted experimental evaluation validates that our approach reduces the runtime of ML algorithms by up to 41%, when compared to previous related work. Our protocol is accompanied by a security proof, as well as a discussion regarding resilience against a wide spectrum of ML attacks.

2023

Diagnosing applications' I/O behavior through system call observability

Authors
Esteves, T; Macedo, R; Oliveira, R; Paulo, J;

Publication
CoRR

Abstract

2023

PADLL: Taming Metadata-intensive HPC Jobs Through Dynamic, Application-agnostic QoS Control

Authors
Macedo, R; Miranda, M; Tanimura, Y; Haga, J; Ruhela, A; Harrell, SL; Evans, RT; Pereira, J; Paulo, J;

Publication
CoRR

Abstract

2023

Taming Metadata-intensive HPC Jobs Through Dynamic, Application-agnostic QoS Control

Authors
Macedo, R; Miranda, M; Tanimura, Y; Haga, J; Ruhela, A; Harrell, SL; Evans, RT; Pereira, J; Paulo, J;

Publication
2023 IEEE/ACM 23RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND INTERNET COMPUTING, CCGRID

Abstract
Modern I/O applications that run on HPC infrastructures are increasingly becoming read and metadata intensive. However, having multiple applications submitting large amounts of metadata operations can easily saturate the shared parallel file system's metadata resources, leading to overall performance degradation and I/O unfairness. We present PADLL, an application and file system agnostic storage middleware that enables QoS control of data and metadata workflows in HPC storage systems. It adopts ideas from Software-Defined Storage, building data plane stages that mediate and rate limit POSIX requests submitted to the shared file system, and a control plane that holistically coordinates how all I/O workflows are handled. We demonstrate its performance and feasibility under multiple QoS policies using synthetic benchmarks, real-world applications, and traces collected from a production file system. Results show that PADLL can enforce complex storage QoS policies over concurrent metadata-aggressive jobs, ensuring fairness and prioritization.

Supervised
thesis

2023

Distributed and Dependable SDS Control Plane for HPC

Author
Mariana Martins de Sá Miranda

Institution
INESCTEC

2023

Realistic fault assessment in SPDK-enabled storage stacks

Author
Alexandre Esteves Miranda

Institution
INESCTEC

2023

Analysis of I/O patterns for Data Management Systems

Author
Pedro Rodrigues

Institution
INESCTEC

2023

MulletBench: Multi-layer Edge Time Series Database Benchmark

Author
Pedro Pereira

Institution
INESCTEC

2023

MulletBench: Multi-layer Edge Time Series Database Benchmark

Author
Pedro Pereira

Institution
INESCTEC