Awards & invited talks

Research and teaching distinctions, keynotes, and invited presentations.

Awards & distinctions

2021, 2020 — Excellent Teacher Award, Instituto Superior Técnico.
2020 — Excellent Thesis Award, University of Luxembourg, awarded to my PhD student Diego Kreutz.
2019 — Honourable mention for teaching excellence, FCUL (lectures and laboratory classes).
2017 — CCGRID Best Student Paper Award for Chrysaor: Fine-Grained, Fault-Tolerant Cloud-of-Clouds MapReduce.
2017 — LASIGE Best Researcher Award 2016.
2016 — Runner-up, One-Minute Madness Audience Award, IFIP Networking.
2013 — Finalist, AISTI Best Iberian PhD Thesis in Information Systems and Technologies.
2010 — IWITMA Best Paper Award for Channel Smurfing: Minimising Channel Switching Delay in IPTV Distribution Networks.
2006 — FCT PhD scholarship.
2003 — Drapers’ Company Postgraduate Prize (MSc Best Student Award), Queen Mary University of London.
2001 — Portugal Telecom Inovação Innovation Award.

2022 — The next 700 network switches. FFSPIN at SIGCOMM.
2021 — Automatic parallelization of software network functions. Telefónica I+D, Barcelona; and the Alan Turing Institute Next Generation Networking webinar.
2018 — Stop configuring the network – program it! Instituto Superior Técnico.
2017 — Securing the Internet at the Exchange Point. European Peering Forum and Dagstuhl Seminar 17511.
2017 — Keynote: Secure network virtualisation with user-centric clouds. DISSECT at IEEE/IFIP IM.
2017 — Bring those network functions back to the plumbing! Dagstuhl Seminar 17032.
2016 — Keynote: No more excuses: it’s time to secure BGP! And IXPs are key to make it happen! 29th Euro-IX Forum, Krakow.
2016 — Keynote: An SDN-Based approach to enhance BGP security. SDN workshop, Stavanger.
2016 — Keynote: Redes Programáveis: (O presente e) o futuro das redes de computadores. Jornadas FCCN, University of Algarve.
2014 — The challenge of an Internet for All: can the smart grid be part of the solution? Dagstuhl Seminar 14471.
2012 — Secure, trustworthy, resilient SDN. Dagstuhl Seminar 12362.
Towards Secure and Dependable Software Defined Networks. IETF 89.