Miguel L. Pardal

Miguel Filipe Leitão Pardal was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1977. He graduated (2000) and mastered (2006) in Computer Science and Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon (UTL), Portugal. His MSc topic was "Security of Service-Oriented Enterprise Applications". In 2008, he started his PhD at IST, on the subject of "RFID Data Discovery Services". His advisers are Prof. José Alves Marques (IST) and Prof. Sanjay Sarma (MIT). He has been a researcher and lecturer at IST since 2002, teaching distributed systems, enterprise applications integration and operating systems courses. Before his return to academia, Miguel worked from 2000 to 2002 as a consultant for Unisys, in Banking and Insurance projects. His work was recognized in 2004, when he was awarded the best computer science admission work to the Portuguese Engineers Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros). He has authored ten international papers. His main research interests include web services, service-oriented architectures, enterprise integration technologies, RFID and sensor networks. Miguel is a member of IEEE and ACM.