Dilma M. Da Silva

Leader of the architecture and implementation of file system support on the IBM K42 research operating system, Da Silva has been a Research Staff Member of Advanced Operating Systems at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. Da Silva received her B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1986; her M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1990; and her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1997 from Georgia Institute of Technology. Her primary research interests include operating systems, distributed computing, and high-end computing.

She served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 1997 to 2000, after which she became a Research Staff Member of the Advanced Operating System Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, becoming the Manager of the group in January 2007. While there, Da Silva led the architecture and implementation of file system support on the K42 research operating system and made innovations on dynamic adaptation of operating system services and scalability. She was part of DARPA's HPCS project and DOE's FAST-OS project and was a key contributor to the Commercial Software System Scale-out project. Her projects included virtualization, specialized execution environments, operating system issues in massive multicore processors, file systems, and cloud computing.

Among her many publications, her most recent was "RC2 - A Living Lab for Cloud Computing" with Glenn Ammons, Vasanth Bala, Stefan Berger, Jim Doran, Frank Franco, Alexei Karve, Herb Lee, James A. Lindeman, Ajay Mohindra, Bob Oesterlin, Giovanni Pacifici, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Darrell Reimer, Kyung Dong Ryu, Mariusz Sabath, Xiaol, IBM Research Technical Report RC24947, 2010.

Da Silva has received numerous professional honors and awards, among which were the Research Productivity Award, March 1997 to September 2000, from the Brazilian Federal Research Agency (CNPq), and a Doctoral Fellowship, September 1990 to July 1994, from the Brazilian Federal Research Agency (CNPq). She has served as a guest editor for ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review in January 2008, sat on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society from 2000 to 2004, and served as Editor for the Special Issue on Adaptive Software Systems for the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society.

Her conference service included co-chair of SYSTOR 2010 (3rd Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference); co-chair of WSO 2010 (VII Brazilian Workshop in Operating Systems); vice-chair of SBAC-PAD 2009 (21st International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing); co-chair of the SOSP Diversity Workshop 2009; and international liaison co-chair for the Fourth Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC2009).