Ricardo Vilaça

Senior Researcher at HASLab, working on high performance computing in both parallel and distributed systems.

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Braga, Portugal

Currently he is a senior researcher at HASLab and MACC, University of Minho & INESC TEC , working on high performance computing in both parallel and distributed systems and former query engine technical director at LeanXcale. He obtained the Ph.D in the MAP-i Doctoral Programme in Computer Science in 2012. He has a strong background in distributed systems and large scale data management and around 15 years of experience in national and international research projects in distributed systems: secure and large scale query processing, cloud computing, NoSQL and SQL databases, and database replication. He had worked in several European research projects CloudDBAppliance, CrowdHealth, BigDataStack, VineYard, CoherentPaaS and LeanBigData, CumuloNimbo, Gorda. He had co-supervise several research grant holders and master thesis and currently is co-supervisor of 2 PhD students. He had published research papers on large scale and dependable distributed systems and has served as reviewer for several highly reputed conferences such as Eurosys, SRDS, Middleware, DSN, OPODIS, LADC, DAIS. He has also created and served as chair of the WPSDS workshop.

Do you want to work with me and be part of the MACC team? I’m looking for Master’s and PhD students to join in the following topics: energy-efficient HPC scheduling and applications; HPC, Big Data, and AI Convergence Towards Exascale; Scalable data processing. Then send me a short bio with a brief description of the work/research you would be most interested in undertaking.

news

Nov 7, 2023 I’m happy to announce that our paper A review on the decarbonization of high-performance computing centers published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is now available online.
Apr 17, 2023 I’m happy to announce that our paper “TiQuE: Improving the Transactional Performance of Analytical Systems for True Hybrid Workloads” has been accepted at VLDB’2023.
Dec 13, 2021 I’m happy to announce our poster paper titled “Adaptive Database Synchronization for an Online Analytical Cloud-to-Edge Continuum” has been accepted for publication at the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2022.

selected publications

  1. A review on the decarbonization of high-performance computing centers
    Silva, C. A., Vilaça, R., Pereira, A., and Bessa, R. J.
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2023
  2. TiQuE: Improving the Transactional Performance of Analytical Systems for True Hybrid Workloads
    Faria, Nuno, Pereira, José, Nunes Alonso, Ana, Vilaça, Ricardo, Koning, Yunus, and Nes, Niels
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2023
  3. Scalable transcriptomics analysis with Dask: applications in data science and machine learning
    Moreno, Marta, Vilaça, Ricardo, and Ferreira, Pedro G.
    BMC Bioinformatics Nov 2022
  4. Detailed Black-Box Monitoring of Distributed Systems
    Neves, Francisco, Vilaça, Ricardo, and Pereira, José
    SIGAPP Appl. Comput. Rev. Jul 2021
  5. Horus: Non-Intrusive Causal Analysis of Distributed Systems Logs
    Neves, Francisco, Machado, Nuno, Vilaça, Ricardo, and Pereira, José
    In 2021 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2021
  6. CODBS: A cascading oblivious search protocol optimized for real-world relational database indexes
    Pontes, Rogério, Portela, Bernado, Barbosa, Manuel, and Vilaça, Ricardo
    In 40th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2021, online event, [Chicago, USA], September 20-23, 2021 2021
  7. Clouder: A Flexible Large Scale Decentralized Object Store
    Vilaça, Ricardo
    2012
  8. MeT: Workload aware elasticity for NoSQL
    Cruz, Francisco, Maia, Francisco, Matos, Miguel, Oliveira, Rui, Paulo, Joao, Pereira, José, and Vilaça, Ricardo
    In EuroSys 2013