Francisco Pereira

Francisco Pereira

PhD student at Instituto Superior Técnico, with a Carnegie Mellon affiliation. Researcher at INESC-ID.

Email: francisco.chamica.pereira@tecnico.ulisboa.pt GitHub: fchamicapereira LinkedIn: fchamicapereira

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Projects

Research

Maestro

Automatically parallelizes sequential software Network Functions, configuring NIC RSS to spread traffic across CPU cores while preserving their original behavior.

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SyNAPSE

A compiler that automatically generates Network Function accelerators across x86 and Tofino, exploring how to split work between them according to a target goal.

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Agentic Networks

Revisiting the knowledge plane with LLM-based agents that coordinate across organizations on outage diagnosis, BGP hijack detection, and routing (HotNets 2026).

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Tutorials

SIGCOMM'26 BlueField Tutorial

Hands-on tutorial on programming NVIDIA BlueField-3 SmartNICs, marking congestion with DOCA Flow and running congestion control on the DPA with DOCA PCC.

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