Alysson Bessani

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Projects

Current projects

• VEDLIoT (Very Efficient Deep Learning in IOT)
• ADMORPH (Towards Adaptively Morphing Embedded Systems)
• ThreatAdapt (Adaptive Byzantine Fault and Intrusion Tolerance)

Past projects

• DiSIEM (Diversity-enhancements for Security Information and Event Management)
• IRCoC (Intelligent Resilience for Cloud-of-Clouds Services)
• Abyss (Sistemas Autonómicos Tolerantes a Falhas Maliciosas)
• SUPERCLOUD (User-Centric Management of Security and Dependability in Clouds of Clouds)
• SEGRID (Security for smart Electricity GRIDs)
• BioBankCloud (Scalable, Secure Storage of Biobank Data)
• SecFuNet (Security for Future Networks)
• SITAN (Services for Intrusion Tolerant Ad Hoc Networks)
• RC-Clouds (Resilient Computing in the Clouds)
• MASSIF (MAnagement of Security information and events in Service Infrastructures)
• TCLOUDS (Trustworthy Clouds: Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructure)
• DIVERSE (Diversity for Intrusion-Tolerant Systems)
• REGENESYS (Regeneration of Replicated Systems)
• FTH-Grid (Fault-Tolerant Hierarchical Grid Scheduling)
• RESIST NoE (Resilience for Survivability in IST (Network of Excellence))
• CRUTIAL (CRitical UTility InfrastructurAL resilience)
• ReD (Resilient Database Clusters)

Student supervision

Concluded

• Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, “Efficient, Dependable Storage of Human Genome Sequencing Data”, Ph.D. dissertation, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Sept. 2020.

• João Sousa, “Byzantine State Machine Replication for the Masses”, Ph.D. dissertation, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 2017.

• Rui Azevedo, “Leveraging OSINT to Improve Threat Intelligence Quality”, Master’s thesis, Mestrado em Segurança Informática, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Jan. 2019.

• Joel Alcântara, “Low-cost Cloud-based Disaster Recovery for Transactional Databases”, Master’s thesis, Mestrado em Engenharia Informática, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Sept. 2016.

• André Correia, “Aprendizagem automática em larga escala nas redes sociais para a descoberta de ameaças de segurança”, Master’s thesis, Mestrado em Segurança Informática, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Jul. 2016.

• Fernando Alves, “Vulnerability Discovery in Power Line Communications”, Master’s thesis, Mestrado em Engenharia Informática, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Jul. 2015.

• Fabio Botelho, “A Consistent and Fault-Tolerant Data Store for Software Defined Networks”, Master’s thesis, Mestrado em Segurança Informática, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Feb. 2014.

• Marcos Vasco, “Emulating Network Applications with a Software-Defined Networking Architecture”, Master’s thesis, Mestrado em Engenharia Informática, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Nov. 2013.

• Oleksandr Malichevskyy, “Resilient Authentication Service”, Master’s thesis, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Jan. 2013.

• Miguel Garcia, “Diversity Management in Intrusion Tolerant Systems”, Master’s thesis, Mestrado em Informática, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Sept. 2011.

• João Sousa, “Typhon: um serviço de autenticação e autorização tolerante a intrusões”, Master’s thesis, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Aug. 2010.

Ongoing

• AdrianoSerckumecka (PhD student)
• Samaneh Shafee (PhD student)
• Robin Vassantlal (PhD student)
• Fernando Alves (PhD student)
• Diogo Pires (MSc student)
• Diogo Avelãs (MSc student)
• Tiago R. N. Carvalho (MSc student)
• TomasPeixinho (MSc student)
• Lívio Rodrigues (MSc student)

Publications

• Ricardo Mendes, Tiago Oliveira, Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Alysson Bessani, “CHARON: A Secure Cloud-of-Clouds System for Storing and Sharing Big Data”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1349–1361, Oct. 2021. 10.1109/TCC.2019.2916856

• Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, Alysson Bessani, “Brief Announcement: Auditable Register Emulations”, in 35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021), Oct. 2021.

• Christian Berger, Hans P. Reiser, Alysson Bessani, “Making Reads in BFT State Machine Replication Fast, Linearizable, and Live”, in Proceedings of the 40th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'21), Sept. 2021.

• Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, João Paulo, Alysson Bessani, “GenoDedup: Similarity-Based Deduplication and Delta-Encoding for Genome Sequencing Data”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 669–681, May 2021. DOI: 10.1109/TC.2020.2994774

• Wilson S. Melo Jr, Luis V. G. Tarelho, Bruno A. Rodrigues Filho, Alysson Bessani, Luiz F. R. C. Carmo, “Field surveillance of fuel dispensers using IoT-based metering and blockchains”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 175, Feb. 2021.

• Fernando Alves, Aurélien Bettini, Pedro M. Ferreira, Alysson Bessani, “Processing Tweets for Cybersecurity Threat Awareness”, Information Systems, vol. 95, Jan. 2021.

• Adriano Serckumecka, Ibéria Medeiros, Bernardo Ferreira, Alysson Bessani, “SLiCER: Safe Long-term Cloud Event Archival”, in In Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), Dec. 2019.

• Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, Alysson Bessani, “Enabling the Efficient, Dependable Cloud-based Storage of Human Genomes”, in 1st Workshop on Distributed and Reliable Storage Systems (DRSS'19), Oct. 2019.

• Adriano Serckumecka, Ibéria Medeiros, Bernardo Ferreira, Alysson Bessani, “A Cost-Effective Cloud Event Archival for SIEMs”, in In Proceedings of the Workshop on Distributed and Reliable Storage Systems (DRSS, with SRDS 2019), Oct. 2019.

• Rui Azevedo, Ibéria Medeiros, Alysson Bessani, “PURE: Generating Quality Threat Intelligence by Clustering and Correlating OSINT”, in In Proceedings of IEEE TrustCom, Aug. 2019.

• Wilson Melo Jr, Alysson Bessani, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Altair Santin, Luis Carmo, “Using Blockchains to Implement Distributed Measuring Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 1503–1514, May 2019.

• Eduardo Viegas, Altair Santin, Alysson Bessani, Nuno Ferreira Neves, “BigFlow: Real-time and Reliable Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection for High-Speed Networks”, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 93, pp. 473–485, Apr. 2019.

• Rui Azevedo, Ibéria Medeiros, Alysson Bessani, “Automated Solution for Enrichment and Quality IoC Creation from OSINT”, in Proceedings of the 10th Simpósio de Informática (INForum 2018), Coimbra, Portugal, Sept. 2018.

• João Sousa, Alysson Bessani, Marko Vukolić, “A Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Ordering Service for the Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Platform”, in 48th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Jun. 2018.

• Miguel Garcia, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Alysson Bessani, “SieveQ: A Layered BFT Protection System for Critical Services”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 511–525, Jun. 2018.

• Wilson Melo Jr, Luis Carmo, Alysson Bessani, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Altair Santin, “How Blockchains can improve Measuring Instruments Regulation and Control”, in International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), May 2018.

• André Nogueira, Miguel Garcia, Alysson Bessani, Nuno Ferreira Neves, “On the Challenges of Building a BFT SCADA,”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2018, pp. 8.

• João Sousa, Alysson Bessani, Marko Vukolić, “A Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Ordering Service for the Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Platform (short paper)”, in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Infrastructures for Distributed Ledgers, Dec. 2017.

• João Sousa, Alysson Bessani, Marko Vukolić, “A Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Ordering Service for the Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Platform”, arXiv, Tech. Rep. 1709.06921, Sept. 2017.

• Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, Alysson Bessani, Francisco M. Couto, Margarida Gama-Carvalho, Maria Fernandes, Paulo Esteves-Verissimo, “How can photo sharing inspire sharing genomes?”, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (PACBB'17), Porto, Portugal, Jun. 2017.

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Faculty members	Alan Oliveira, Alysson Bessani, Ana Respício, António Casimiro, Bernardo Ferreira, Ibéria Medeiros, José Cecílio, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Pedro M. Ferreira, Vinicius Vielmo Cogo
Post-doc researchers	David Matos
PhD students	Adriano Mão de Ferro, AdrianoSerckumecka, Allan Espíndola, Ana Fidalgo, Carlos Mão de Ferro, Fernando Alves, Joel Samper, Miracle Aniakor, Nuno Dionísio, Paulo Antunes, Regivaldo Costa, Robin Vassantlal, Rohit Kumar, Samaneh Shafee, Žygimantas Jasiūnas
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MSc students	Alexandre Nascimento, André Gil, Bruno Matos, David Silva, Diogo Avelãs, Diogo Duarte, Diogo Pires, Diogo Ferreira, Frederico Apolónia, Gonçalo Reis, Inês Sousa, João Loureiro, João Queimado, João Silva, João Valente, Lívio Rodrigues, Miguel Oliveira, Pedro Alves, Pedro Rosa, Rafael Ramires … further results
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