Rafael Soares

I'm a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - Universidade de Lisboa. I am currently conducting my research at INESC-ID Lisboa with the Distributed Systems Group (GSD) under the supervision of Professor Luís Rodrigues.

Research Interests

My research interests include the adaptation and implementation of multiple consistency and transactional support levels to new and up-and-coming cloud environments, like Function-as-a-Service and Microservices. Some recent works include the adaptation of transaction support of both weak consistency (Transactional Causal Consistency) and strong consistency (Snapshot Isolation) to Function-as-a-Service environments.

Projects

Currently involved in the DACOMICO project, aiming to provide transactional support (such as Transactional Causal Consistency) to microservices architectures.

Publications

International Conference Publications

  • FaaSTCC: efficient transactional causal consistency for serverless computing
    (Middleware '21) Poster
    Taras Lykhenko, Rafael Soares, Luís Rodrigues

International Workshop Publications

  • Multi-Consistency Transactional Support for Function-as-a-Service
    (DSN '23)
    Rafael Soares, Luís Rodrigues
  • Performance Trade-offs in Transactional Systems
    (PaPoC '23)
    Rafael Soares, Luís Rodrigues

Posters and National Conference Publications

  • Suporte Transacional Multi Coerente para Function-as-a-Service
    (ENSD 2022) Poster
    Rafael Soares, Luís Rodrigues
  • Uma Arquitectura para Oferecer Garantias de Coerência forte a Aplicações FaaS
    (INForum 2021) Poster
    Rafael Soares, Luís Rodrigues

Master Thesis

  • An Architecture to Offer Transactional Strong Consistency for FaaS Applications
    Thesis Extended Abstract
    Rafael Soares

Resume

Teaching

Highly Dependable Systems

Teaching Assistant - 2021-2022

1º Semester of the MSc degree program (MEIC)
Instituto Superior Técnico

Education

MASTER IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

2019 - 2021

Instituto Superior Técnico, Taguspark
Specialization in Distributed Systems
Final Grade: 18
Academic Merit 2019/2020

BACHELOR IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

2016-2019

Instituto Superior Técnico, Taguspark
Final Grade: 17
Academic Merit 2016/2017
Academic Excelency 2017/2018
Academic Excelency 2018/2019

Other Projects

Organization of the National Meeting of Distributed Systems

June 28 - July 1, 2022
  • Helped in the organization of the first edition of the National Meeting of Distributed Systems, taking place in Evora, Portugal
  • Developed the conference website alongside Claudio Correia

Talking about the Future - PhD Edition

2021
  • An informal event where PhD students could share their academic and work experience with Master students
  • Collaboration between LAGE2 and the IST PhD Students Club

Hyperledger Labs - Enterprise Blockchain Technologies

2020
  • Contributed to an open source course in blockchain technologies, part of the Hyperledger Labs
  • Developed a simple and interactive Blockchain for course labs, named Blockchain4Students
  • Reviewed and helped develop multiple of the lab guides

Contact

Location:

INESC-ID Lisboa, Room 501
Rua Alves Redol Nº 9, 1000-029
Lisboa, Portugal