معرفی
Rui Oliveira is an Associate Professor at Universidade do Minho in Portugal, affiliated with the Distributed Systems Group. His research focuses on dependable distributed systems, fault-tolerant database systems, and large-scale distributed systems. He teaches Distributed Systems across undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs.
Research Interests
His work spans epidemic communication protocols, data management in cloud environments, and high-performance transactional middleware. Recent contributions include frameworks for privacy-preserving machine learning (SOTERIA), distributed tracing (CAT), and fault-diagnosis tools for I/O behavior analysis.
Key Contributions
Developed the Loom disaggregated database system, the TADA distributed agreement toolkit, and the DATAFLASKS epidemic storage substrate. His work emphasizes practical implementations of scalable and resilient distributed systems.
Labs/Teams
Affiliated with HASLab (Hardware and Software Systems Laboratory), focusing on distributed systems research. Collaborates with industry on cloud computing and cybersecurity challenges.
