Rogério António Pontes

Rogério Pontes came to HASLab looking for new challenges and expand his knowledge on computer science. In his first year, he completed his Master’s thesis on a Linear Algebra Approach to OLAP systems. The master thesis, the great group environment and the possibility to work on research projects relevant to the needs of users and the industry sparked his interest for research. With this new found interest, he enrolled on the MAP-i Doctoral programme. His thesis, still in progress, deals with one current issue on today’s society, the privacy of data. With close proximity to the european project SafeCloud-eu, his research tackles the existing issues on data storage privacy and secure data processing.

Domains

High-Assurance Software

Projects

Cloud-Setup

The MOG CLOUD SETUP aims to develop tools for post-production of high quality audiovisual content for the television industry that allow the automation in inserting and/or replacing content in TV programming and that can work both inside a radio broadcast station as well as in a cloud-based environment. This project is of extreme importance for the television and audiovisual content industries as it allows the automation of processes that are extremely expensive nowadays. This way, it will facilitate and speed up the content formatting that must be displayed in multiple distribution platforms. Project Datasheet

PLATAFORMA DE PREPARAÇÃO DE CONTEÚDOS AUDIOVISUAIS PARA INGEST NA CLOUD

SafeCloud

Despite all their advantages and importance to the competitiveness of modern economies, cloud infrastructures raise fundamental questions related to the privacy, integrity, and security of offsite data storage and processing tasks. There are major privacy and security concerns about data located in the cloud. These concerns are currently not addressed satisfactorily by existing technologies.

Publications

General-Purpose Secure Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

Portela, B;Pacheco, H;Jorge, P;Pontes, R;

2023

2023 IEEE 36TH COMPUTER SECURITY FOUNDATIONS SYMPOSIUM, CSF

d'Artagnan: A Trusted NoSQL Database on Untrusted Clouds

Pontes, R;Maia, F;Vilaça, R;Machado, N;

2019

38th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2019, Lyon, France, October 1-4, 2019

SafeRegions: Performance evaluation of multi-party protocols on HBase

Pontes, R;Maia, F;Paulo, J;Vilaca, R;

2016

2016 IEEE 35TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RELIABLE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS WORKSHOPS (SRDSW)

CODBS: A cascading oblivious search protocol optimized for real-world relational database indexes

Pontes, R;Portela, B;Barbosa, M;Vilaca, R;

2021

2021 40TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RELIABLE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (SRDS 2021)

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Centres

High-Assurance Software

At the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), we improve practice through theory, creating and implementing software that goes beyond mere functionality: we ensure it is correct, resilient, and secure against failures and attacks. Our team of researchers, scientists, and engineers has proven expertise in software engineering, developing methods and tools to design and integrate robust software; in distributed systems, exploring distribution and replication to ensure scalability and reliability; and in information security, addressing cybersecurity challenges and improving systems with advanced, secure cryptographic protocols, thus minimising vulnerabilities. With a multidisciplinary approach supported by solid theoretical principles, we develop innovative solutions for critical software, secure cloud infrastructures, and privacy-aware big data management, driving scientific advancement, innovation, and high-level consultancy. In addition, we complement our core expertise with work in human-computer interaction, programming languages, computational mathematics, and quantum computing - because we believe the future of trustworthy software is built on knowledge and innovation.