Dilma Da Silva
Dilma Da Silva
Professor Texas A&M University
Dilma Da Silva joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University as its new department head on August 2014. Her primary research interests are cloud computing, operating systems, distributed computing, and high-end computing. Before joining Texas A&M, she worked at Qualcomm Research in California (2012-2014), IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York (2000-2012) and the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil (1996-2000). She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, a member of the board of CRA-W, a member of CDC (Coalition for Diversifying Computing), co-founder of the Latinas in Computing group, and an event liaison with USENIX. She served as an officer at ACM SIGOPS from 2011 to 2015 and as chair of the ACM Senior Award Committee. In 2015 Da Silva is a very active member of her research community. She has chaired 27 scientific conferences and participated in 100+ program committees.