People

We are looking for new Postdocs, PhD students and Master/Bachelor students to join HASLab and work on distributed data management. If you are interested in working with us, contact us.

Alumni

Researchers

• Ricardo Vilaça, Now at Critical Techworks
• Nuno Machado, Now at Amazon
• Rui Gonçalves, Now at Zalando

PhD

• Francisco Neves, Francisco Neves, Holistic performance and scalability analysis for large scale distributed systems, 2021, Now at Nutrium
• Rogério Pontes, Secure multi party Computation Trade-offs in distributed Databases, 2020, Now at AutoScout24
• Ricardo Gonçalves, Multi-Value Distributed Key-Value Stores, 2018, Now at UpHold
• Fábio Coelho, Towards a Transactional and Analytical Data Management System for Big Data, 2018
• Ana Nunes Alonso, Database Replication for Enterprise Applications, 2017
• Clayton Costa, Efficient adaptive query processing on large database systems available in the cloud environment, 2017, Now faculty at UFRN
• Francisco Cruz, Towards autonomic workload aware NoSQL databases, 2016, Now at InvisibleLabs
• Francisco Maia, Epidemic Store for Massive Scale Systems, 2015, Now faculty at FEUP
• Miguel Matos, Epidemic algorithms for large scale data dissemination, 2013, Now faculty at IST
• Ricardo Vilaça, Clouder: a flexible large scale decentralized object store, 2012, Critical Techworks
• Alfranio Correia, Practical database replication, 2010, Now at Oracle-MySQL
• Filipe Campos, Fault Tolerant Service Integration, 2017, Now at Oracle-MySQL
• Paulo Jesus, Robust Distributed Data Aggregation, 2012, Now at Oracle-MySQL
• Nuno Castro, Timeseries motif discovery, 2012, Now at Expedia

MSc

• Pedro Sousa, Distributed transaction optimization, 2025.
• Luís Silva, Update processing in polystores, 2025.
• Rui Souto, Query Optimizers Based on Machine Learning Techniques, 2021, Now at TalkDesk
• Luis Meruje, Automatic Parameter Tuning Using Reinforcement Learning, 2020
• Nuno Faria, High performance data processing, 2020
• Hugo Alves Carvalho, SafeSpark: Processamento Analítico de Dados Seguro, 2019, Now at Bosch
• Hugo Abreu, High Availability Architecture for Cloud Based Databases, 2019, Now at Feedzai
• Diogo Couto, Aplicações web com requisitos de armazenamento e processamento privados, 2018, Now at Keyruptive
• Cláudia Vanessa Brito, Cloud-based Analytics for Monitoring and Classification of Arrhythmias, 2018
• Daniel Cruz, SafeAnalytics: Plataforma para analítico seguro de dados, 2018
• Daniel Tavares, Armazenamento de Dados Colunar para Processamento Analítico, 2018, Now at XPandIT
• José Carlos Morais, Escalonamento de transações em bases de dados não-relacionais, 2018, Now at Farfetch
• Ricardo Gonçalves Macedo, Computação Segura em Bases de Dados NoSQL (Secure Computation on NoSQL Databases),2017
• Cláudia Fernandes Ribeiro, Escalonamento de pedidos para um serviço de bases de dados relacional externo, 2017, Now at VISA
• José Pedro Pereira, Towards Building Partial Memberships with Network Sampling, 2017
• José Luís Ribeiro, Níveis de Coerência de Dados em Sistemas de Muito Larga Escala (Consistency Criterions in Very Large Scale Database Systems), 2017, Now at XPandIT
• Diana Martins, Safe storage of medical images in NoSQL databases, 2016, Now at EuroTux
• Pedro Ferreira, AIoTA: an IoT Platform on MonetDB, 2016, Now at MonetDB Solutions
• Pedro Guimarães, Monitoring and analysis of queries in distributed databases, 2015, Now at OutSystems
• João Miranda, Replicação de Bases de Dados Baseada em Comunicação em Grupo (database replication based on group communication), 2015, Now at Vilt
• André Costa. Gestão de Bases de Dados Relacionais em Cloud Computing (Relational Databases Management for Cloud Computing), 2015, Now at Vilt
• Francisco Neves, On efficient support for relational data in Apache HBase, 2015
• Mário Pinto, Secure computation of SQL, 2014, Now at Etamax
• Fábio Coelho, Implementation and test of transactional primitives over Cassandra, 2013
• Luís Zamith, Bridging the Gap Between SQL and NoSQL, 2012, Now at SubVisual
• Pedro Gomes, Migração de aplicações legadas para bases de dados NOSQL, 2011, Now at Oracle-MySQL
• Nelson Gonçalves, Large-scale privacy-preserving Bluethooth sensing, 2013, Now at Oracle-MySQL