Jorge M. Soares | Protocol Labs Research
Jorge M. Soares
Technical Program Manager/ ConsensusLab
Education
PhD in Robotics, Control, and Intelligent Systems (IST-EPFL JDI), 2016
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (IST-EPFL JDI), 2016
Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa (IST-UL)
MSc in Communication Networks Engineering, 2009
Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa (IST-UL)
BSc in Communication Networks Engineering, 2007
Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa (IST-UL)
Jorge is a Technical Program Manager on the ConsensusLab team, where he helps steer and accelerate Protocol Labs’ research on blockchain scalability.
He holds BSc and MSc degrees in Communication Networks Engineering and received a joint PhD from EPFL (in Robotics, Control, and Intelligent Systems) and IST-UL (in Electrical and Computer Engineering) for his research in control theory and marine robotics. He’s a licensed engineer in Andorra and Portugal.
Prior to joining Protocol Labs, Jorge worked as a patent examiner with the European Patent Office, where he focused on human-computer interaction and the physical aspects of computing devices. He’s a Senior Member of IEEE and a long-time volunteer, currently serving as Vice-Chair of the European Public Policy Committee.
Talks
2023-03-29
A metaverse of walled gardens? WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and the Metaverse / 2023.03.29 / Genève, Switzerland
Publications
2024-02-01/Report
A finality calculator for Filecoin’s Expected Consensus
We propose a finality calculator for Filecoin’s Expected consensus that considers what takes place during epochs and can attain, under normal operating conditions, an error probability of 2^(−30) in 30 epochs (15 minutes) - a 30x improvement over the current 900-epoch threshold.
Distributed systems
2022-11-07/Journal article
When the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in early 2020, the world made an unprecedented shift to remote work. As a precaution, some Internet providers scaled back service levels temporarily, although that probably wasn’t necessary for countries in Asia, Europe, and North America, which were generally able to cope with the surge in demand caused by people teleworking (and binge-watching Netflix).
Distributed systems, Networking
2022-03-11/Conference paper
Hierarchical consensus: A horizontal scaling framework for blockchains
We present the Filecoin Hierarchical Consensus framework, which aims to overcome the throughput challenges of blockchain consensus by horizontally scaling the network.
2022-10-14/News, Events
Join us in Lisbon for the ConsensusLab Summit In less than two weeks, the Protocol Labs Network will be meeting in Lisbon, Portugal for LabWeek22, a decentralised conference and a first for us. ConsensusLab will also be present, and we’re organising our own event: the ConsensusLab Summit.
2022-11-30/News, Events
The Filecoin Spacenet goes live For all of the past year, our team at ConsensusLab has been hard at work pushing the boundaries of Filecoin scalability and devising a framework for horizontal scaling that allows for the seamless spawning of interoperable subnets, as well as a reference implementation of a consensus algorithm suitable for running said subnets.