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José Flora is a PhD student of the Doctoral Program in Information Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra where he is, since 2017, a student researcher with the Centre for Informatics and Systems. He has completed his Masters in Informatics Security in 2019 and his Bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering in 2017 at the University of Coimbra. He has participated as Student Researcher in 4 projects, namely H2020: ATMOSPHERE; METRICS and TalkConnect; and CMU-PT AIDA. His expertise includes testing techniques, fault injection, vulnerability injection and benchmarking, applied in the context of multi-tenant cloud and virtualised environments, containers platforms and micro service architectures. His PhD thesis is focused in the security of microservice-based systems, with emphasis on intrusion detection and intrusion tolerance.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
José Eduardo Ferreira Flora

Citation names

  • Flora, José

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
8418-6D14-4E66
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0809-4665

Email addresses

  • jeflora@dei.uc.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/11/28 - 2024
Ongoing
 PhD in Informatics Engineering (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
2017/09/12 - 2019/09/11
Concluded
 Masters in Informatics Security (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
"Container-level Intrusion detection for multi-tenant environments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2014/09/25 - 2017/07/07
Concluded
 Bachelor's Degree in Informatics Engineering (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/09/01 - 2023/08/31 Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2024/12/31 Evaluation and Improvement of Security in Microservice-based Systems
2020.05145.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/09/01 - 2021/09/01 TalkConnect – Voice Architecture over Distributed Network
SII&DT 39676 TalkConnect
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Ongoing
2018 - 2019 METRICS: Monitoring and Measuring the Trustworthiness of Critical Cloud Systems
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032504
Master Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2017 - 2018 ATMOSPHERE Adaptive, Trustworthy, Manageable, Orchestrated, Secure, Privacy-assuring, Hybrid Ecosystem for REsilient Cloud Computing
777154
Master Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Horizon 2020 European Innovation Council Fast Track to Innovation
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2020/03 - 2023/02 SNOB-5G: SCALABLE NETWORK BACKHAULING FOR 5G
CENTRO-01-0247-FED- ER-045929
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2020/05 - 2022/10 AIDA: ADAPTIVE, INTELLIGENT AND DISTRIBUTED ASSURANCE PLATFORM
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-045907
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Informatica e Sistemas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. José Flora; Paulo Gonçalves; Nuno Antunes. "Intrusion Detection for Scalable and Elastic Microservice Applications". 2023.
    10.1109/prdc59308.2023.00014
  2. Flora, José; Miguel Teixeira; Nuno Antunes. "µDetector: Automated Intrusion Detection for Microservices". 2023.
    10.1109/saner56733.2023.00084
  3. Flora, Jose; Goncalves, Paulo; Antunes, Nuno. "Using Attack Injection to Evaluate Intrusion Detection Effectiveness in Container-based Systems". Paper presented in IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), Perth, 2021.
    Published • 10.1109/prdc50213.2020.00017
  4. José Flora; Paulo Goncalves; Miguel Teixeira; Nuno Antunes. "My Services Got Old! Can Kubernetes Handle the Aging of Microservices?". 2021.
    10.1109/issrew53611.2021.00042
  5. Flora, José; Antunes, Nuno. "Studying the Applicability of Intrusion Detection to Multi-tenant Container Environments". Paper presented in European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC), Naples, 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/EDCC.2019.00033
Journal article
  1. Jose Flora; Paulo Goncalves; Miguel Teixeira; Nuno Antunes. "A Study on the Aging and Fault Tolerance of Microservices in Kubernetes". IEEE Access (2022): https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3231191.
    10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3231191
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023 Web co-chair for the 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2023) (2023/06/27 - 2023/06/30)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Web Chair for the 33rd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2022) (2022/10/31 - 2022/11/03)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 UNC Charlotte, United States
2020 - 2020 Web Chair for the 31st International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2020) (2020/10/12 - 2020/10/15)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 University of Coimbra, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/09/04 - 2018/09/07 Volunteer at the Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)
Conference
 Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)
University of Coimbra, Portugal