João Lourenço

'NOVAthesis' (ex 'unlthesis') LaTeX template

Hey! Did you get here looking for my NOVAthesis LaTeX template? Just have a look at this page…
http://docentes.fct.unl.pt/joao-lourenco/software/latex-thesis-template-unlthesis-0 

You may also visit my blog (at https://novathesis.blogspot.pt) about writing dissertations, mainly with LaTeX LaTeX and the NOVAthesis template.

Short Bio

João Lourenço (http://docentes.fct.unl.pt/joao-lourenco/) received his doctoral degree in 2004 from the NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he holds a position as Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department.  He is a member of the advisory board and steering committees of several International Conferences and Research Networks.  He is a founding member of the NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA LINCS) and his primary research interests include in-memory data management for parallel and large-scale computing systems, and static and dynamic analysis of concurrent programs.  He is co-author of more than 50 articles/papers, and received a Distinguished Paper Award in Euro-Par 2012 and the Best paper Award in HVC 2012. He was a visiting researcher at IBM Research Laboratory at Haifa, IL, in Sep-Dec 2011; at University of S. Paulo (at S. Carlos), BR, in Feb 2014; and at University of Brno, CZ, in Feb 2015.  He is the author of the popular LaTeX thesis template NOVAthesis (ex-"unlthesis") (http://joaomlourenco.github.io/novathesis/).  He also writes on a blog about the topic of writing dissertations, with or without LaTeX and his template.

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ACM Computing Classification System research interests

(D.1.3) Programming Techniques — Concurrent Programming;
(D.2.2) Software Engineering — Design Tools and Techniques; 
(D.2.4) Software Engineering — Software/Program Verification; 
(D.2.5) Software Engineering — Testing and Debugging; 
(D.4.1) Operating Systems — Concurrency Management; 
(F.3.2) Logics and Meanings of Programs — Semantics of Programming Languages; 
(D.2.4) Parallel Databases; 
(K.3) Computers and Education.

Awards

• Best paper award at the Haifa Verification Confernece 2012, with the paper  "Precise Detection of Atomicity Violations", co-authored with Vasco Pessanha and Ricardo J. Dias.
• Distinguished (best) paper award at Euro-Par 2012, with the paper "Efficient Support for In-Place Metadata in Transactional Memory", co-authored with Ricardo J. Dias and Tiago M. Vale.