Nuno Santos

I am a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. My advisors are Krishna Gummadi and Rodrigo Rodrigues. I received by M.S degree in Computer Science from IST/UTL in Lisbon, Portugal. Before joining MPI-SWS, I worked in the Distributed Systems Group at INESC-ID Lisbon. I spent the summer of 2010 as an intern at Microsoft Research Redmond, working with Himanshu Raj in collaboration with Stefan Saroiu and Alec Wolman.

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Wartburg
Martin-Luther-Straße 12
66111 Saarbruecken
Germany

Phone: +49 681 9303-684
Fax: +49 681 9303-699
eMail: email

Currently, my research interests span the areas of operating systems, networking, and distributed systems. I am particularly interested in cloud computing, especially in the study and mitigation of emerging security threats. My recent work focuses on making the cloud more trustworthy. Today many customers feel a loss of control over their data and computation when they use cloud services. I am building novel systems that leverage traditional trusted computing technology (TPMs) to provide end-to-end data confidentiality within and beyond the cloud.

In the past, I have also worked on the design and implementation of middleware to help manage shared state in distributed applications for mobile devices.

Selected Publications

Trusted Language Runtime (TLR): Enabling Trusted Applications on Smartphones [pdf]
Nuno Santos, Himanshu Raj, Stefan Saroiu, and Alec Wolman
Proceedings of HotMobile, Phoenix, AZ, USA, March 2011

Towards Trusted Cloud Computing [pdf] [slides]
Nuno Santos, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Rodrigo Rodrigues
Proceedings of HotCloud, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2009

Complete List

Unifying Divergence Bounding and Locality Awareness in Replicated Systems with Vector-Field Consistency [pdf]
Luis Veiga, Andre Negrao, Nuno Santos, and Paulo Ferreira
Journal of Internet Services and Applications, Volume 1, Number 2, 2010

Towards Trusted Cloud Computing [pdf] [slides]
Nuno Santos, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Rodrigo Rodrigues
Proceedings of HotCloud, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2009

Vector-Field Consistency for Ad-hoc Gaming [pdf]
Nuno Santos, Luis Veiga, and Paulo Ferreira
Proceedings of Middleware, Newport Beach, CA, USA, September 2007 (best paper)

Making Transactions Resilient to Intermittent Network Connections [pdf]
Nuno Santos, and Paulo Ferreira
Proceedings of MDC, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, USA, June 2006

Loosely-Coupled, Mobile Replication of Objects with Transactions [pdf]
Luis Veiga, Nuno Santos, Ricardo Lebre, and Paulo Ferreira
Proceedings of QDS, Newport Beach, CA, USA, July 2004

Transaction Policies for Mobile Networks [pdf]
Nuno Santos, Luis Veiga, and Paulo Ferreira
Proceedings of Policy, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, June 2004

Posters

NetEx: Efficient and Cost-effective Internet Bulk Content Delivery [pdf]
Massimiliano Marcon, Nuno Santos, Krishna P. Gummadi, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Pablo Rodriguez, and Amin Vahdat
Poster at ANCS, La Jolla, CA, USA, October, 2010

Anonymity in the Personalized Web [pdf]
Nuno Santos, Alan Mislove, Marcel Dischinger, and Krishna P. Gummadi
Poster at NSDI, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2008

	Nuno Santos I am a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. My advisors are Krishna Gummadi and Rodrigo Rodrigues. I received by M.S degree in Computer Science from IST/UTL in Lisbon, Portugal. Before joining MPI-SWS, I worked in the Distributed Systems Group at INESC-ID Lisbon. I spent the summer of 2010 as an intern at Microsoft Research Redmond, working with Himanshu Raj in collaboration with Stefan Saroiu and Alec Wolman.
Contacts	Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Wartburg Martin-Luther-Straße 12 66111 Saarbruecken Germany Phone: +49 681 9303-684 Fax: +49 681 9303-699 eMail:
Research	Currently, my research interests span the areas of operating systems, networking, and distributed systems. I am particularly interested in cloud computing, especially in the study and mitigation of emerging security threats. My recent work focuses on making the cloud more trustworthy. Today many customers feel a loss of control over their data and computation when they use cloud services. I am building novel systems that leverage traditional trusted computing technology (TPMs) to provide end-to-end data confidentiality within and beyond the cloud. In the past, I have also worked on the design and implementation of middleware to help manage shared state in distributed applications for mobile devices.
Publications	Selected Publications *Trusted Language Runtime (TLR): Enabling Trusted Applications on Smartphones* [pdf] Nuno Santos, Himanshu Raj, Stefan Saroiu, and Alec Wolman Proceedings of HotMobile, Phoenix, AZ, USA, March 2011 *Towards Trusted Cloud Computing* [pdf] [slides] Nuno Santos, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Rodrigo Rodrigues Proceedings of HotCloud, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2009 Complete List *Trusted Language Runtime (TLR): Enabling Trusted Applications on Smartphones* [pdf] Nuno Santos, Himanshu Raj, Stefan Saroiu, and Alec Wolman Proceedings of HotMobile, Phoenix, AZ, USA, March 2011 *Unifying Divergence Bounding and Locality Awareness in Replicated Systems with Vector-Field Consistency* [pdf] Luis Veiga, Andre Negrao, Nuno Santos, and Paulo Ferreira Journal of Internet Services and Applications, Volume 1, Number 2, 2010 *Towards Trusted Cloud Computing* [pdf] [slides] Nuno Santos, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Rodrigo Rodrigues Proceedings of HotCloud, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2009 *Vector-Field Consistency for Ad-hoc Gaming* [pdf] Nuno Santos, Luis Veiga, and Paulo Ferreira Proceedings of Middleware, Newport Beach, CA, USA, September 2007 (best paper) *Making Transactions Resilient to Intermittent Network Connections* [pdf] Nuno Santos, and Paulo Ferreira Proceedings of MDC, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY, USA, June 2006 *Loosely-Coupled, Mobile Replication of Objects with Transactions* [pdf] Luis Veiga, Nuno Santos, Ricardo Lebre, and Paulo Ferreira Proceedings of QDS, Newport Beach, CA, USA, July 2004 *Transaction Policies for Mobile Networks* [pdf] Nuno Santos, Luis Veiga, and Paulo Ferreira Proceedings of Policy, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, June 2004 Posters *NetEx: Efficient and Cost-effective Internet Bulk Content Delivery* [pdf] Massimiliano Marcon, Nuno Santos, Krishna P. Gummadi, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Pablo Rodriguez, and Amin Vahdat Poster at ANCS, La Jolla, CA, USA, October, 2010 *Anonymity in the Personalized Web* [pdf] Nuno Santos, Alan Mislove, Marcel Dischinger, and Krishna P. Gummadi Poster at NSDI, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2008