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Alysson Bessani

Alysson Bessani receives the DSN2024 Test-of-Time Award

Hasan Heydari and Alysson Bessani publish at ACM PODC

Vawlt raised a 2,15 M€ investment

Alysson Bessani interviewed by Ciências ULisboa

LASIGE's Executive Committee Elected (2024/2025)

LASIGE researchers featured on 2023 Stanford's University top 2% most-cited authors

LASIGE @ Workshop on New Software Abstractions for Hardware Security Technology

Alysson Bessani wins “Computer Sciences and Informatic Engineering-2023 Prize” by Ulisboa/CGD

Strong presence of LASIGE @ DSN2023

LASIGE 25 years Celebration

LASIGE @ the roadshow EA-IDEIA

LASIGE Workshop on Project Proposal Writing: Lessons Learned from Succesful PIs

8th LASIGE Workshop (2023)

LASIGE researchers featured on Stanford's University top 2% most-cited scientists list

Vedliot’s 3rd Project General Assembly

LASIGE at INForum 2022 organization

LASIGE projects selected by FCT Call 2022

1st LASIGE Forum

LASIGE publishes @ IEEE SP'22

LASIGE's Executive Committee Elected (2022/2023)

Vawlt is now multilingual

LASIGE researchers at Stanford University's list world's top 2% scientists

LASIGE @ Ciências Research Day 2021

Best Paper Award @ SRDS’21

Alysson Bessani and Nuno Neves receive the DSN-2021 Test-of-Time Award

Alysson Bessani at Stanford University's list world's top 2% scientists

Alysson Bessani chair of CIRED working group 2020-3

Half million euros invested at Vawlt Technologies

LASIGE' project, DiSIEM, a successful story at EU

LASIGE gets H2020 MSCA RISE funding in the SEEDS project

GenoDedup tool @ Exame Informática and Dinheiro Vivo

LASIGE's Vinicius Cogo and Alysson Bessani research published in IEEE Transactions on Computers, a top ranked journal

LASIGE blockchain papers presented @ DSN 2020

Alysson Bessani was keynote speaker at FAB’2020

5th LASIGE workshop (2020)

Best Student Paper Award at ACM/IFIP Middleware 19

LASIGE relevant participation - INForum 2019

Armilar invests EUR 0.5 millions in Vawlt

INForum 2017

IBM Faculty Award 2016 granted to Alysson Bessani

Poster Presentation Award @ EuroSys 2016

PTDC 2014 | SR&TD 2014 Project Grants results

DAIS 2015 - Program co-Chair

ONGOING

Acronym Title Funding Entity Start Date End Date
SMaRtChain Fast and Energy-efficient Distributed Consensus for Blockchains FCT 01/03/2023 28/02/2026
SEEDS A holistic design of secure vehicular networks: communications, data caching and blockchain services EU 01/03/2021 28/02/2025

PAST

Acronym Title Funding Entity Start Date End Date
VEDLIoT Very Efficient Deep Learning IoT platform EU H2020 01/11/2020 31/10/2023
ThreatAdapt Adaptive Byzantine Fault and Intrusion Tolerance FCT 01/07/2019 30/06/2023
IRCoC Intelligent Resilience for Cloud-of-Clouds Services FCT 01/07/2016 31/12/2019
Abyss Autonomic Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems FCT 01/07/2016 31/12/2019
DiSIEM Diversity Enhancements for SIEMs EU H2020 01/09/2016 31/08/2019
RSC Smart Grids Resilient Supervision and Control in Smart Grids FCT 01/03/2016 28/02/2018
SUPERCLOUD User-Centric Management of Security and Dependability in Clouds of Clouds EU H2020 01/02/2015 31/01/2018
SEGRID Security for smart Electricity GRIDs EU FP7 01/10/2014 31/12/2017
ParIS Strategic partnership in Information Security EU ERASMUS+ 01/10/2014 30/09/2017
Biobank Cloud Scalable, Secure Storage of Biobank Data EU FP7 01/12/2012 30/11/2015
SITAN SITAN - Services for Intrusion Tolerant Ad Hoc Networks FCT 01/04/2011 30/09/2014
RC-Clouds Resilient Computing in the Clouds FCT 01/01/2011 31/12/2013
MASSIF MASSIF - MAnagement of Security information and events in Service InFrastructures EU FP7 01/10/2010 30/09/2013
TClouds Trustworthy Clouds Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructure EU FP7 01/10/2010 30/09/2013
REGENESYS Regeneration of Replicated Systems FCT 01/01/2010 31/12/2012
ReD Resilient Database Clusters FCT 01/04/2010 31/03/2012
CloudFIT CloudFIT - Fault and Intrusion Tolerance for Cloud Computing FCT 01/01/2010 31/12/2011
DIVERSE Diversity for Intrusion Tolerant Systems FCT 01/01/2010 31/12/2011
ReSIST NoE ReSIST - Resilience for Survability in IST (Nework of Excellence) EU FP6 01/01/2006 31/03/2009
CRUTIAL CRitical UTility InfrastructurAL resilience EU FP6 01/01/2006 31/12/2008
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Christian BergerLívio RodriguesHans P. ReiserVinícius CogoAlysson BessaniPoster: Faster Quorums with FlashConsensus. In 2023 IEEE 28th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC). IEEE, 2023 [Biblios]
David HylandJoão SousaGauthier VoronAlysson BessaniVincent GramoliTen Myths About Blockchain Consensus, In Advances in Information Security, Blockchains, pages 3 - 24. Springer International Publishing, 2023 [Biblios]
Robin VassantlalHasan HeydariAlysson BessaniOn the Minimal Knowledge Required for Solving Stellar Consensus. In 2023 IEEE 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). IEEE, 2023 [Biblios]
Hasan HeydariGuthemberg SilvestreAlysson BessaniHow Hard is Asynchronous Weight Reassignment?. In 2023 IEEE 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). IEEE, 2023 [Biblios]
Vinicius Vielmo CogoAlysson BessaniBrief Announcement: Auditable Register Emulations. In 35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021), pages 53:1-53:4. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021 [Biblios]
Ricardo MendesTiago OliveiraVinicius Vielmo CogoNuno Ferreira NevesAlysson Neves BessaniCHARON: A Secure Cloud-of-Clouds System for Storing and Sharing Big Data. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 9(4):1349-1361, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021 [Biblios]
Christian BergerHans P. ReiserAlysson BessaniMaking Reads in BFT State Machine Replication Fast, Linearizable, and Live. In 40th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2021). IEEE, 2021 [Biblios]
Vinicius Vielmo CogoJoao PauloAlysson BessaniGenoDedup: Similarity-Based Deduplication and Delta-Encoding for Genome Sequencing Data. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 70(5):669-681, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021 [Biblios]
Fernando AlvesAmbrose AndongaboIlir GashiPedro M. FerreiraAlysson BessaniFollow the Blue Bird: A Study on Threat Data Published on Twitter. In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2020), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 217-236. Springer International Publishing, 2020 [Biblios]
Ricardo MacedoJoão PauloJosé PereiraAlysson BessaniA Survey and Classification of Software-Defined Storage Systems. ACM Computing Surveys, 53(3):1-38, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020 [Biblios]
Enrique FynnAlysson BessaniFernando PedoneSmart Contracts on the Move. In 2020 50th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE, 2020 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniEduardo AlchieriJoao SousaAndre OliveiraFernando PedoneFrom Byzantine Replication to Blockchain: Consensus is Only the Beginning. In 2020 50th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE, 2020 [Biblios]
Christian BergerHans P. ReiserJoao SousaAlysson Neves BessaniAWARE: Adaptive Wide-Area Replication for Fast and Resilient Byzantine Consensus. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 1-1, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020 [Biblios]
Miguel GarciaAlysson BessaniNuno NevesLazarus: Automatic Management of Diversity in BFT Systems. In Proceedings of the 20th International Middleware Conference. ACM, 2019 [Biblios]
Adriano SerckumeckaIberia MedeirosBernardo FerreiraAlysson BessaniSLICER: Safe Long-Term Cloud Event Archival. In 2019 IEEE 24th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Christian BergerHans P ReiserJoão SousaAlysson BessaniResilient Wide-Area Byzantine Consensus Using Adaptive Weighted Replication. In 38th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2019), 2019 [Biblios]
Vinicius Vielmo CogoAlysson Neves BessaniEnabling the Efficient, Dependable Cloud-based Storage of Human Genomes. In 2019 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops (SRDSW). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Adriano SerckumeckaIberia MedeirosBernardo FerreiraAlysson Neves BessaniA Cost-Effective Cloud Event Archival for SIEMs. In 2019 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops (SRDSW). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Rui AzevedoIberia MedeirosAlysson BessaniPURE: Generating Quality Threat Intelligence by Clustering and Correlating OSINT. In 2019 18th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/13th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Nuno DionisioFernando AlvesPedro M. FerreiraAlysson BessaniCyberthreat Detection from Twitter using Deep Neural Networks. In 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Fernando AlvesPedro Miguel FerreiraAlysson BessaniDesign of a Classification Model for a Twitter-Based Streaming Threat Monitor. In 2019 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Wilson S. MeloAlysson BessaniNuno NevesAltair Olivo SantinLuiz F. Rust C. CarmoUsing Blockchains to Implement Distributed Measuring Systems. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 68(5):1503-1514, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019 [Biblios]
Nuno DionísioPedro M. FerreiraAlysson BessaniAprendizagem Profunda e Ameaças de Cibersegurança em Fontes Abertas. In Proceedings do INForum 2018 - 10o Simpósio Nacional de Informática, 2018 [Biblios]
Paulo CoelhoTarcisio Ceolin JuniorAlysson BessaniFernando DottiFernando PedoneByzantine Fault-Tolerant Atomic Multicast. In 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE, 2018 [Biblios]
Joao SousaAlysson BessaniMarko VukolicA Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Ordering Service for the Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Platform. In 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE, 2018 [Biblios]
Andre NogueiraMiguel GarciaAlysson BessaniNuno NevesOn the Challenges of Building a BFT SCADA. In 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE, 2018 [Biblios]
Miguel GarciaNuno NevesAlysson BessaniSieveQ: A Layered BFT Protection System for Critical Services. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 15(3):511-525, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018 [Biblios]
Wilson MeloLuiz F. R. C. CarmoAlysson BessaniNuno NevesAltair SantinHow blockchains can improve measuring instruments regulation and control. In 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC). IEEE, 2018 [Biblios]
Eduardo Adilio Pelinson AlchieriAlysson BessaniFabiola GreveJoni da Silva FragaKnowledge Connectivity Requirements for Solving Byzantine Consensus with Unknown Participants. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 15(2):246-259, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018 [Biblios]
Carlos CarvalhoDaniel PortoLuís RodriguesManuel BravoAlysson BessaniDynamic adaptation of byzantine consensus protocols. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - SAC '18. ACM Press, 2018 [Biblios]
Eduardo AlchieriAlysson BessaniFabíola GreveJoni da Silva FragaEfficient and Modular Consensus-Free Reconfiguration for Fault-Tolerant Storage. In 21st International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2017), pages 26:1-26:17. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2017 [Biblios]
Joel AlcântaraTiago OliveiraAlysson BessaniGinja: one-dollar cloud-based disaster recovery for databases. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference on - Middleware '17. ACM Press, 2017 [Biblios]
Andre NogueiraAntonio CasimiroAlysson BessaniElastic State Machine Replication. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 28(9):2486-2499, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017 [Biblios]
Vinicius V. CogoAlysson BessaniFrancisco M. CoutoMargarida  Gama-CarvalhoMaria FernandesPaulo Esteves-VerissimoHow Can Photo Sharing Inspire Sharing Genomes?. In Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (PACBB), pages 74-82. Springer International Publishing, 2017 [Biblios]
Tiago OliveiraRicardo MendesAlysson BessaniExploring Key-Value Stores in Multi-Writer Byzantine-Resilient Register Emulations. In 20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016), pages 30:1-30:17. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2016 [Biblios]
André CorreiaPedro M. FerreiraAlysson BessaniDescoberta de Ameaças de Segurança através do Twitter. In Proceedings do INForum 2016 - 8o Simpósio Nacional de Informática, 2016 [Biblios]
Vinicius Vielmo CogoAlysson BessaniFrancisco M. CoutoPaulo VeríssimoA high-throughput method to detect privacy-sensitive human genomic data. In WPES 2015 - Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (together with ACM CCS’15), 2015 [Biblios]
Tobias DistlerChristopher BahnAlysson BessaniFrank FischerFlavio JunqueiraExtensible Distributed Coordination. In EuroSys’15: The 10th ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Systems Conference, 2015 [Biblios]
João SousaAlysson BessaniSeparating the WHEAT from the Chaff: An Empirical Design for Geo-Replicated State Machines. In SRDS 2015 34th Symposium on Reliable Distributed SystemsLocation: , pages 146-155, 2015 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniRicardo MendesTiago OliveiraOn the Consistency of Heterogeneous Composite Objects. In PaPoC’15: 2nd Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (together with EuroSys’15), 2015 [Biblios]
David MatosNuno NevesAlysson BessaniSITAN: Services for Ad Hoc Networks with Unknown Participants. In International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2014 [Biblios]
Tiago OliveiraRicardo MendesAlysson BessaniSharing Files Using Cloud Storage Services. In DIHC'14: 2nd Workshop on Dependability and Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds (together with Euro-Par'14), pages 13-25, 2014 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniJoão SousaEduardo AlchieriState Machine Replication for the Masses with BFT-SMaRt. In 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pages 355-362, 2014 [Biblios]
Diego KreutzAlysson BessaniEduardo FeitosaHugo CunhaTowards Secure and Dependable Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures. In 20th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), pages 43-52, 2014 [Biblios]
Vinicius CogoAndré NogueiraJoão SousaMarcelo PasinHans P. ReiserAlysson BessaniFITCH: Supporting Adaptive Replicated Services in the Cloud. In DAIS’13: 13th International IFIP Conference on Distributed Applications and Inoperable Systems, 2013 [Biblios]
Miguel GarciaNuno NevesAlysson BessaniAn Intrusion-Tolerant Firewall Design for Protecting SIEM Systems. In WSR’13: Workshop on Systems Resilience (together with IEEE/IFIP DSN’13), 2013 [Biblios]
Fábio BotelhoFernando RamosDiego KreutzAlysson BessaniOn the feasibility of a consistent and fault-tolerant data store for SDNs. In EWSDN’13: 2nd European Workshop on Software Defined Networks, 2013 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniLeucio A. CutilloGianluca RamunnoNorbert SchirmerPaolo SmiragliaThe TClouds Platform: Concept, Architecture and Instantiations. In DISCCO’13: 2nd International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Cloud Computing (together with IEEE SRDS’13), 2013 [Biblios]
Pedro CostaMarcelo PasinAlysson BessaniMiguel CorreiaOn the Performance of Byzantine Fault-Tolerant MapReduce. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING, 10(5):301-313, 2013 [Biblios]
Paulo VerissimoAlysson BessaniMarcelo PasinThe TClouds architecture: Open and resilient cloud-of-clouds computing (DOI). In IEEE/IFIP 42nd International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), pages 1-6, 2012 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniReplicação na Cloud (of Clouds). In WTF 2012: XIII Workshop de Testes e Tolerância a Falhas, 2012 [Biblios]
Miguel GarciaNuno NevesAlysson BessaniDIVERSYS: DIVErse Rejuvenation SYStem. In INFORUM - Simpósio de Informática, 2012 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniMiguel CorreiaBruno QuaresmaFernando AndréPaulo SousaDepSky: Dependable and Secure Storage in a Cloud-of-Clouds. In EuroSys'11: The 6th ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Systems Conference. Salzburg, 2011 [Biblios]
Luis T. A. N. BrandãoAlysson BessaniOn the Reliability and Availability of Systems Tolerant to Stealth Intrusion. In LADC'11: The 5th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing. IEEE, 2011 [Biblios]
Bernhard KauerPaulo VeríssimoAlysson BessaniRecursive Virtual Machines for Advanced Security Mechanisms. In 1st International Workshop on Dependability of Clouds, Data Centers and Virtual Computing Environments (DCDV'11), 2011 [Biblios]
François AubryAlysson BessaniPaulo SousaBFT Services Programming with a Dependable Tuple Space. In 39th IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2009), 2009 [Biblios]
Francisco VieiraPaulo SousaAlysson BessaniTransparent Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Directory Service using COTS components. In 39th IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2009), 2009 [Biblios]
Eduardo AlchieriAlysson BessaniJoni FragaFernando PereiraProactive Byzantine Quorum Systems. In XI International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'09), 2009 [Biblios]