Fernando Silva Supervision

Current students and Alumni

Current Students/Researchers

Sylwia Bugla: Researcher in Authenticus project.

Alumni Post-Doc

Rolando Martins, currently Assistant Prof. at CS Dep., Univ. of Porto.

Mobile Distributed and Secure Computing - 2015-2018.

Eduardo R. B. Marques, currently Assistant Prof. at CS Dep., Univ. of Porto.

Smart, Mobile, Intelligent and Large Scale Sensing - 2016-2018.

Pedro Ribeiro, currently Assistant Prof. at CS Dep, Univ. of Porto.

Large Scale Complex Networks Analysis - 2011-2014.

Alumni PhD

Joaquim Esteves da Silva: Adaptive Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Clouds. PhD in Computer Science. Minho Aveiro and Porto Joint Doctoral Program (MAP-i). Computer Science Department, School of Science, University of Porto, December, 2021.
Co-advisers: Eduardo R. B. Marques and Luís Lopes.
Jorge Miguel Barros da Silva: Towards Measuring Scientific Impact Using Network Science. PhD in Computer Science. Minho Aveiro and Porto Joint Doctoral Program (MAP-i). Computer Science Department, School of Science, University of Porto, November, 2021.
Co-adviser: Pedro Ribeiro.
David Oliveira Aparício, currently works as Senior Scientist at OutSystems in Portugal: Network Comparison and Node Ranking in Complex Networks. PhD in Computer Science. Minho, Aveiro and Porto Joint Doctoral Program (MAP-i). Computer Science Department, School of Science, University of Porto, July, 2019.
Main adviser: Pedro Ribeiro.
João Filipe Rodrigues, currently works at Ericsson, Sweden.: A Middleware for Mobile-Edge-Clouds. PhD in Computer Science. Computer Science Department, School of Science, University of Porto, January, 2019.
Main-adviser: Luís Lopes.
Sarvenaz Choobdar, works as Data Scientist at Expedia Group (CH).: On the Characterization and Comparison of Complex Networks. PhD in Computer Science, Minho Aveiro and Porto Joint Doctoral Program (MAP-i), Computer Science Department, School of Sciences, University of Porto, March, 2015.
Co-adviser: Pedro Ribeiro.
Rolando Martins, currently Assistant Prof. at the CS Dep. at University of Porto; before worked at EFACEC; CMU and Yinzcam (US).: On the Integration of Real-Time and Fault-Tolerance in P2P Middleware, PhD in Computer Science, Computer Science Department, School of Sciences, University of Porto, May, 2012.
Co-adviser: Luís Lopes.
Pedro Ribeiro, currently Assistant Prof. at the CS Dep. at Univ. of Porto: Efficient and Scalable Algorithms for Network Motifs Discovery, PhD in Computer Science, Computer Science Department, School of Sciences, University of Porto, June, 2011.
Co-adviser: Luís Lopes.
Hervé Paulino, currently Associate Prof. at New University of Lisbon (UNL): An Infrastructure for mobile service-oriented computing encoded on a process calculus, PhD in Informatics, Informatics Department, New University of Lisbon, December, 2006.
Main adviser: Luís Lopes.
Nuno P. Fonseca, currently Coordinating Researcher and Group Leader of Computational Biology and Metagenomics at CIBIO/InBIO.: Parallelism in Inductive Logic Programming, PhD in Computer Science, Faculty of Science,University of Porto, October, 2006.
Co-adviser: Rui Camacho (FEUP).
Álvaro Reis Figueira, currently Assistant Prof. at CS Dep, Univ. of Porto.: Design and Implementation of a Distributed System with Mobility Based on a Process Calculus, PhD in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, June, 2004.
Co-adviser: Luís Lopes.
Ricardo Nuno Lopes. Assistant Prof. at CS Dep. Uni. of Porto, (2001-2007).: An Implementation of the Extended Andorra Model . PhD in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, December 2001.
Main adviser: Vítor Santos Costa.
Ricardo Jorge Rocha, currently Associate Prof. at CS Dep., Univ. of Porto.: On Applying Or-Parallelism and Tabling to Logic Programs. PhD in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, November 2001.
Co-adviser Vítor Santos Costa.
Manuel Eduardo Correia, Currently Associate Prof. at CS Dep. Univ. Porto.: On The Implementation of And/Or Parallelism in Logic Programming Systems. PhD in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, November, 2001.
Co-adviser: Vítor Santos Costa.
Luís Lopes, currently, Associate Prof. in the CS Dep, Univ. of Porto.: On the Design and Implementation of a Virtual Machine for Process Calculi. PhD in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, December 1999.
Co-adviser: Vasco Vasconcelos (FCUL).

Alumni Masters

Jaime vale: Ensuring Time Series Data Privacy via Complex Networks. MSc in Security Informatics, University of Porto, July, 2024.
Adviser: Vanessa F. Silva.
Fábio Miguel Nogueira: Identifying References to Legal Literature in Portuguese Superior Court Decisions. MSc in Networks and Informatics Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, July, 2023.
Co-adviser: Maria raquel Guimarães (FDUP).
Lucas Paula: Academic Management Information Interoperability Platform for Higher Education Institutions. MSc in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, December, 2021.
Adviser: Manuel Eduardo Correia.
Solange Sampaio Perdigão: Uma solução de Business Intelligence para a área de recursos humanos da U.Porto. Integrated Master in Networks and Informatics Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, November, 2021.
Co-adviser: Marco Nunes.
André Lage Sobral: Uma solução de Business Intelligence para a área académica da U. Porto. Integrated Master in Networks and Informatics Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, November, 2021.
Co-adviser: Marco Nunes.
Rafael Antonio Belokurows: A Predictive Analysis of Academic Success at Universidade do Porto. MSc in Data Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, November, 2021.
Adviser: Carlos Soares.
Rui Pedro Silva: Jogo Android “peer-to-peer” usando o Hyrax “middleware”. Integrated Master in Networks and Informatics Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, November, 2018.
Adviser: Eduardo Marques.
Pedro Cardoso Belém: Temporal Research Interests Discovery Using Co-Occurrence Keywords Networks MSc in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, December, 2018.
Co-advisers: Pedro Ribeiro.
Vanessa Silva: Time Series Analysis based on Complex Networks MSc in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, July, 2018.
Co-advisers: Pedro Ribeiro and Eduarda Silva.
Filipe Esteves: Crowdsourcing Video Replays Using Mobile edge-clouds. Integrated Master in Networks and Informatics Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, November, 2017.
Co-adviser: Luís Lopes.
Daniel Filipe Silva: P3-Mobile: Parallel Peer-to-Peer Computing on Mobile Devices. MSc in Computer Science. Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, July, 2016.
Co-adviser: Luís Lopes.
Fábio Domingues: Authenticus: Architecture and Mechanisms to Support a National Repository of Scientific Publications. MSc in Computer Science. Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, November, 2015.
Jorge Miguel Barros da Silva: A Parallel Computing Hybrid Approach for Feature Selection. Integrated Master in Networks and Informatics Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, October, 2015.
Adviser: Ana Aguiar (FEUP).
Joaquim Esteves da Silva: Simulation of Algorithms for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. MSc in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, July, 2015.
Co-adviser: Luís Lopes.
David Aparício: Pattern Discovery in Complex Networks using Parallelism.. MSc in Computer Science. Faculty of Science, University of Porto, July, 2014.
Co-advised by Pedro Ribeiro.
Rui Vieira: Or-Parallel Prolog Execution on Multicores Based on Stack Splitting.. MSc in Networks and Informatics Systems Engineering. Faculty of Science, University of Porto, November, 2011.
Co-advised by Ricardo Rocha.
Sylwia Teresa Bugla: Name Identification in Scientific Publications.. MSc in Networking and Informatics Systems Engineering. Faculty of Science, University of Porto, December, 2009.
João Paulo Magalhães, currently at Instituto Politecnico de Felgueiras.: A Peer-to-Peer Distributed File System. MSc in Informatics. Faculty of Science, University of Porto, April, 2005.
Co-advised by Luís Lopes.
Rolando Martins, currently at Efacec.: An Implementation of a Distributed Or-Parallel Prolog System based on Stack Splitting. MSc in Informatics, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, July, 2003.
Co-advised by Ricardo Rocha.
Lícinio Oliveira, currently at Accenture.: P3: Parallel Peer-to-Peer. MSc in Informatics. Faculty of Science, University of Porto, June, 2003.
Co-advised by Luís Lopes.
Rogério Ferreira, works for Qimonda.: A Methodology for Data Sharing among Heterogeneous Databases using XML. MSc in Informatics. Faculty of Science, University of Porto, March, 2003.
Co-advised by José Paulo Leal.
Nuno Amado, first job with Edinfor.: Parallelization of Classification Algorithms. MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Computing, University of Porto, January 2002.
Co-advised by João Gama.
Mário João Antunes, Currently is a lecturer at IPL (Leiria).: Centralized Remote Administration of Groups of UNIX Machines. MSc in Informatics. Faculty of Science, University of Porto, October 2001.
Co-advised Manuel Eduardo Correia.
Hervé Paulino, carried over for PhD.: Design and Implementation of the pSystem for Distributed Memory Architectures. MSc in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, October 1998.
Ricardo Jorge Rocha, carried on for PhD.: YapOr: an Or-Parallel Prolog System Based on Environment Copying. MSc in Informatics, University of Minho, October 1996.
Luís Lopes, carried on for PhD.: A Parallel Programming Environment for Shared Memory Architectures, the pSystem. Equivalent to MPhil in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Porto, February 1995.

Junior researchers (BIC,BII)