• Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Ford Motor Company Design Professor II
  • Regents Professor
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Dilma Da Silva

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology – 1997
  • M.S., Computer Science, Universidade de São Paulo – 1990
  • B.S., Computer Science, Universidade de São Paulo – 1986

Research Interests

    • Cloud computing
    • Operating systems
    • Distributed computing
    • High-end computing

Awards & Honors

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Speaker – 2009-2014
  • ACM Distinguished Scientist – 2011
  • IBM Research Division Award – 2011
  • Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award – 2009
  • Best Paper Award at USENIX File and Storage Technologies (FAST) Conference – 2008
  • Research Productivity Award, from the Brazilian Federal Research Agency (CNPq) – 1997-2000
  • Doctoral Fellowship, from the Brazilian Federal Research Agency (CNPq) – 1990-1994

Selected Publications

  • Ching, CW, Chen, X, Kim, T, Kuo, JJ, Da Silva, D, and Hu, L (2026). Totoro+: An Adaptive and Scalable Edge Federated Learning System. IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems 37(07), 1740–1757.
  • Chen, X, Paidiparthy, MP, Da Silva, D, and Hu, L (2025). Ekko: Fully Decentralized Scheduling for Serverless Edge Computing. In: 39th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium.pp.15–27.
  • Ching, CW, Chen, X, Kim, C, Wang, T, Chen, D, Da Silva, D, and Hu, L (2025). AgileDART: An Agile and Scalable Edge Stream Processing Engine. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • Gomes, LG, Fraga, C, Holanda, M, and Da Silva, D (2025). ChatGPT as a Teaching Assistant in a CS1 Course: An Experience Report. In: 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). IEEE.
  • Liu, J, Wang, Q, Zhang, S, Hu, L, and Da Silva, D (2023). Sora: A Latency Sensitive Approach for Microservice Soft Resource Adaptation. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Middleware Conference, pp.43–56. Best Paper Award
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