Rafael Ferreira da Silva

Professional Activities

Scientific Community Leadership & Service

Journals Editor

Editorial leadership across top-tier venues.

FGCS
Future Generation Computer Systems
2023–2025 Special Content Editor
2020–2023 Editor
2018 Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue for the 12th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
JPDC
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
2019–2024 Associate Editor
CiSE
IEEE Computer Society, Computing in Science & Engineering
2023 Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Science Gateways: Accelerating Research and Education

Chair Roles in Conferences

Served in chair roles in 22 conferences.

HPDC
ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
2025 Student Program Chair — 34th HPDC, Notre Dame, IN, USA
2024 Publication Chair — 33rd HPDC, Pisa, Italy
2023 Publication Chair — 32nd HPDC, Orlando, USA
ICPP
International Conference on Parallel Processing
2025 Poster Chair — 54th ICPP, San Diego, CA, USA
SC
IEEE/ACM The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
2024 Track Chair: Data Analytics, Visualization, & Storage — SC, USA
eScience
IEEE eScience Conference
2023 Program Chair — 19th eScience, Limassol, Cyprus
2022 Publicity and Web Chair — 18th eScience, Salt Lake City, USA
2021 Publicity Chair — 17th eScience, Innsbruck, Austria
2019 Track Chair: Software Tools & Infrastructure — 15th eScience, San Diego, USA
WORKS
IEEE Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop
2022 Program Chair — 17th WORKS, Dallas, USA
2021 Program Chair — 16th WORKS, Saint-Louis, USA
2020 Program Chair — 15th WORKS, Atlanta, USA
2019 Program Chair — 14th WORKS, Denver, USA
2018 Program Chair — 13th WORKS, Dallas, USA
2017 Publicity Chair — 12th WORKS, Denver, USA
2016 Publicity Chair — 11th WORKS, Salt Lake City, USA
SBAC-PAD
IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
2023 Track Chair: Performance Evaluation — 35th SBAC-PAD, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2016 Local Arrangements Chair — 28th SBAC-PAD, Los Angeles, USA
ERROR
Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative ResultsWorkshop
2022 Program Chair — 2nd ERROR, Salt Lake City, USA
Gateways
Gateways 2022
2022 Publication Chair — Gateways, San Diego, CA, USA
BC2DC
Bridging from Concepts to Data and Computation for eScience Workshop
2019 Program Chair — 1st BC2DC, San Diego, CA
NSF SI2 PI Meeting
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation Principal Investigator Workshop
2018 Organizer — NSF SI2 PI Meeting, Washington D.C., USA

Program Committees Member

Served as PC member in 72 conferences.

SC
IEEE/ACM The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
2026 SC, Workshops and Symposiums, Chicago, USA
2025 SC, Workshops and Symposiums, St. Louis, USA
2023 SC, Workshops, Denver, USA
2021 SC, St. Louis, USA
ISC-HPC
IEEE ISC High Performance
2026 2026 ISC-HPC, Workshops and Birds of a Feather, Hamburg, Germany
2025 2025 ISC-HPC, Workshops and Birds of a Feather, Hamburg, Germany
HPDC
ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
2026 35th HPDC, Cleveland, OH, USA
2025 34th HPDC, Notre Dame, IN, USA
2024 33rd HPDC, Pisa, Italy
2023 32nd HPDC, Orlando, FL, USA
2022 31st HPDC, Minneapolis, USA
CLUSTER
IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
2025 CLUSTER, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2023 CLUSTER, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2021 CLUSTER, Portland, USA
2019 CLUSTER, Albuquerque, NM, USA
2018 CLUSTER, Belfast, UK
2017 CLUSTER, Honolulu, USA
CCGrid
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing
2025 25th CCGrid, Tromsø, Norway
2023 23rd CCGrid, Bangalore, India
2022 22nd CCGrid, Taormina, Italy
2017 17th CCGrid, Madrid, Spain
2016 16th CCGrid, Cartagena, Colombia
2015 15th CCGrid, Shenzhen, China
PASC
Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing
2025 PASC, ACM Student Research Competition, Brugg, Switzerland
2022 PASC, Basel, Switzerland
SAC
ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing
2025 40th SAC, Track On Cloud Continuum, Sicily, Italy
eScience
IEEE eScience Conference
2025 21th eScience, Chicago, IL, USA
2024 20th eScience, Osaka, Japan
Euro-Par
International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing
2025 31th Euro-Par, Dresden, Germnay
2024 30th Euro-Par, Madrid, Spain
2023 29th Euro-Par, Limassol, Cyprus
SBAC-PAD
IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
2025 37th SBAC-PAD, Bonito, Brazil
2022 34th SBAC-PAD, Bordeaux, France
2021 33rd SBAC-PAD, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2019 31st SBAC-PAD, Campo Grande, Brazil
2018 30th SBAC-PAD, Lyon, France
2017 29th SBAC-PAD, Campinas, Brazil
2016 28th SBAC-PAD, Los Angeles, USA
ICPP
International Conference on Parallel Processing
2024 53rd ICPP, Gotland, Sweden
2023 52nd ICPP, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2019 48th ICPP, Kyoto, Japan
CLOUD
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing
2023 CLOUD, Chicago, USA
IPDPS
IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
2022 36th IPDPS, Lyon, France
2021 35th IPDPS, Portland, USA
WORKS
Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
2025 20th WORKS, Saint Louis, USA
2024 19th WORKS, Atlanta, USA
2020 15th WORKS, Atlanta, USA
2019 14th WORKS, Denver, USA
2018 13th WORKS, Dallas, USA
2017 12th WORKS, Denver, USA
2016 11th WORKS, Salt Lake City, USA
XLOOP
Workshop on Extreme-Scale Experiment-in-the-Loop Computing
2025 20th XLOOP, Saint Louis, USA
2024 19th XLOOP, Atlanta, USA
IWSG
International Workshop on Science Gateways
2025 17th IWSG, London, UK
2024 16th IWSG, Toulouse, France
2023 15th IWSG, Tübingen, Germany
CloudAM
IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Clouds and Edge Computing, and Applications Management
2021 10th CloudAM, Leicester, UK
2020 9th CloudAM, Leicester, UK
2019 8th CloudAM, Auckland, New Zealand
2018 7th CloudAM, Zurich, Switzerland
2017 6th CloudAM, Austin, USA
2016 5th CloudAM, Shanghai, China
2015 4th CloudAM, Limassol, Cyprus
2014 3rd CloudAM, London, UK
HPCMASPA
Workshop on Monitoring and Analysis for HPC Systems Plus Applications
2021 HPCMASPA, Portland, USA
ReWorDS
Workshop on Reproducible Workflows, Data Management, and Security
2022 2nd ReWorDS, Salt Lake City, USA
2021 1st ReWorDS, Innsbruck, Austria
HiPS
Workshop on High Performance Serverless Computing
2021 1st HiPS, Stockholm, Sweden
ICDCS
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
2020 40th ICDCS, Singapore
HPCS
International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
2018 16th HPCS, Orléans, France
2017 15th HPCS, Genoa, Italy
RepScience
International Workshop on Reproducible Open Science
2016 1st RepScience, Hannover, Germany

Funding Agencies Reviewer

Peer review support for national and international agencies.

NSF
U.S. National Science Foundation
2026 Virtual Review Panel, CISE/OAC
2025 Virtual Review Panel, CISE/OAC
2024 Virtual Review Panel, OAC
2023 Virtual Review Panel, OAC
2022 Virtual Review Panels, OAC
2021 Virtual Review Panels and Ad-hoc Reviewer, OAC
2020 Review Panel and Ad-hoc Reviewer, OAC
2019 Review Panels and Ad-hoc Reviewer, OAC
2018 Review Panels, OAC
2017 Review Panels, OAC
DOE
U.S. Department of Energy
2025 Mail In Reviews, ASCR
2024 Mail In Reviews, ASCR
2023 Mail In Reviews, ASCR
2021 Mail In Reviews, ASCR
FWF
Austrian Science Fund
2025 Ad-hoc Reviewer
2024 Ad-hoc Reviewer
ARO
U.S. Army Research Office
2020 Ad-hoc Reviewer
NWO
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
2019 Ad-hoc Reviewer

Steering Committees

Long-term governance and strategic oversight.

2025-present
Vice-Chair
IEEE eScience Conference
2023-2024
Member
IEEE eScience Conference

Professional Associations

Senior membership recognitions.

IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2022–present Senior Member
2017–2022 Member
ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
2023–present Senior Member
2018–2023 Member
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