Presenter

Rafael Ferreira da Silva is a Senior Research Scientist at the Data Lifecycle and Scalable Workflows group in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), and an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Ferreira da Silva's research focuses on the efficient and resilient execution of large-scale scientific workflow applications on heterogeneous distributed systems, and the modeling and simulation of parallel and distributed computing systems. He is the Co-Founder of the Workflows Community Initiative (WCI). He has extensive experience leading/working on large-scale projects related to distributed computing platforms, cyberinfrastructure systems, and applications. He also brings substantial experience on community engagement and workshop organization. He was PI on several NSF-funded projects, and his scholarly work includes more than 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings articles, book chapters, editorials, and conference abstracts. For more information, please visit https://rafaelsilva.com.