About me

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I am an Assistant Professor at the Federal Institute of Alagoas, Campus Arapiraca. 

I received my Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra (CISUC-DEI-FCTUC). My advisor was Professor Marco Vieira. My thesis is about the availability and security evaluation of Time-based VM migration as Moving Target Defense. The full text is available here.

I received my M.Sc in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco. My advisor was Prof. Paulo Maciel. My dissertation is about availability models for cloud computing environments with VM Live Migration technique as support for software rejuvenation. 

I received my B.Sc in Computer Science from the Federal University of Alagoas, under the guidance of Prof. Marcelo Oliveira. At that time, I worked on building and managing an OpenNebula private cloud to host medical imaging-related applications.

My research interests are in system security, performance, and dependability evaluation. The recent topics of my research activity are focused on availability and reliability evaluation, Virtual Machine migration-enabled environments, Moving Target Defense and Software Aging and Rejuvenation. My main research interests (current) include:

- Moving Target Defense evaluation (modeling, simulation, and measurements)

- Software Aging and Rejuvenation

- Possible crossovers between AI, ML, and stochastic modeling

- Stochastic Petri Nets