Tânia Esteves

Tânia Esteves

Assistant ResearcherINESC TECInvited Assistant ProfessorU. Minho

About me

I am an Assistant Researcher at INESC TEC (DSR HASLab group) and an Invited Assistant Professor at University of Minho. My research focuses on diagnosing and benchmarking distributed and data-centric applications, as well as enhancing systems security and data privacy.

Much of my recent work builds on eBPF, both to observe and diagnose systems with low overhead and to extend eBPF itself for performance tuning and security.

News

Sep 2026My PhD student Carlos Machado presented our poster Context Matters: Expanding the Potential of eBPF at the eBPF’26 workshop, co-located with SOSP’26.
Jul 2026Gave an invited talk at OWASP Porto Meet #12 – Cerberus, sharing what we have learned about ransomware behavior and how to build more resilient defenses.
Jul 2026🏆 Very proud of my PhD student Bruno Pereira, who won the Best Presentation Award at WORMA’26 (co-located with EuroS&P) for our work It Works on My Machine.
May 2026Started working on INOCULUM, a new project on storage systems designed so that ransomware cannot destroy critical data.
Apr 2026Gave hands-on Docker and Kubernetes workshops to students at ENEI’26 (National Meeting of Informatics Students), together with João Paulo.

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Education

2018 – 2024 PhD — Doctoral Program in Informatics (PDINF)
Thesis: “Flexible Tracing and Analysis of Applications’ I/O Behavior”
Supervised by Prof. João Paulo and Prof. Rui Oliveira.
University of Minho.

2013 – 2018 MSc — Integrated Master in Computer Science
Thesis: “Sistemas de Armazenamento Configuráveis e Seguros”
Supervised by Prof. João Paulo and Prof. José Pereira.
University of Minho.

Experience

2024 – present Assistant Researcher, HASLab - INESC TEC.
Research on storage systems’ and distributed systems’ performance, security and dependability.

Jul 2022 – Sep 2022 Research Internship, AIST.
Research on the topics of HPC, I/O diagnosis, and storage systems.
Supervisor: Jason Haga

2021 – present Invited Assistant Professor, University of Minho.
Practical and theoretical classes in Operating Systems and Cloud Computing courses (see Teaching).

2018 – 2024 Research Assistant (Ph.D student), HASLab - INESC TEC and University of Minho.
Research on diagnosing the I/O behavior of data-centric applications and distributed systems.

2017 – 2018 Research Assistant (MSc student), HASLab - INESC TEC and University of Minho.
Research on secure and configurable file systems leveraging the Intel SGX technology.