Author

Rafael Ferreira da Silva is a Senior Research Scientist in the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and he also serves as the Executive Director of the Workflows Community Initiative (https://workflows.community). With a strong research focus on the efficient and resilient execution of large-scale scientific workflow applications on heterogeneous distributed systems, as well as the modeling and simulation of parallel and distributed computing systems, Dr. Ferreira da Silva has led and contributed to numerous large-scale projects related to distributed computing platforms, cyberinfrastructure systems, and applications. Dr. Ferreira da Silva's expertise also extends to community engagement and workshop organization. He has served as the principal investigator on several U.S. DOE- and NSF-funded projects, and his scholarly work includes over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings articles, book chapters, etc. Dr. Ferreira da Silva is a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE. More information: https://rafaelsilva.com.