Rafael Ferreira da Silva

Funding Awards

Research grants and collaborations

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Major federally funded initiatives and collaborative programs.

10/2025-09/2027
ModCon – Transformational AI model consortium
$30,000,000 — Co-Principal Investigator
Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) – Award #DE-SCL0000139
10/2025-09/2027
OPAL — Orchestrated Platform for Autonomous Laboratories
$12,500,000 — Senior Personnel
Offices of Biological & Environmental Research (BER) and Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
10/2025-09/2027
A Testbed for Multi-Agent Autonomous Science: From Lab Bench to Supercomputer
$250,000 — Principal Investigator
Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
04/2023-04/2024
Center for Sustaining Workflows and Application Services
$120,000 — Principal Investigator
Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
2017-12/2023
ExaWorks: ECP Workflows Project
$3,773,833 — Co-Principal Investigator
Exascale Computing Project

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

Competitive awards supporting foundational research.

10/2021-09/2024
Collaborative Research: OAC Core: Simulation-driven runtime resource management for distributed workflow applications
$499,988 — Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Core Programs
#2106059 #2106147
08/2021-07/2024
Collaborative Research: Elements: Simulation-driven Evaluation of Cyberinfrastructure Systems
$600,000 — Software Institutes (CSSI)
#2103489 #2103508
05/2021-10/2022
Collaborative Research: EAGER: VisDict - Visual Dictionaries for Enhancing the Communication between Domain Scientists and Scientific Workflow Providers
$264,500 — Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)
#2100561 #2100636
03/2021-02/2024
REU Site: SURF-I: Safe, Usable, Resilient and Fair Internet
$405,000 — Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
#2051101
10/2020-09/2021
CCRI: Planning: Collaborative Research: Infrastructure for Enabling Systematic Development and Research of Scientific Workflow Management Systems
$100,000 — CISE Community Research Infrastructure
#2016610 #2016619 #2016682
10/2020-09/2021
Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Performance Scalability, Trust, and Reproducibility: A Community Roadmap to Robust Science in High-throughput Applications
$250,000 — Scalable Parallelism in the Extreme (SPX)
#2028881 #2028923 #2028930 #2028955 #2028956
10/2019–09/2022
Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Integrating core CI literacy and skills into university curricula via simulation-driven activities
$500,000 — CyberTraining – Training-based
#1923539 #1923621
10/2018–09/2021
Coordinating Curricula and User Preferences to Increase the Participation of Women and Students of Color in Engineering
$300,000 — IUSE
#1826632
10/2017–09/2021
BIGDATA: IA: Collaborative Research: In Situ Data Analytics for Next Generation Molecular Dynamics Workflows
$1,993,043 — Big Data Science & Engineering
#1741057 #1740990 #1741040
01/2017—12/2019
Collaborative Research: SI2-SSE: WRENCH: A Simulation Workbench for Scientific Workflow for Users, Developers, and Researchers
$497,956 — Software Institutes
#1642369 #1642335
06/2018–05/2019
2018 Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) Principal Investigators Workshop
$85,065 — Software Institutes
#1831393

U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

High-impact, mission-driven research programs.

12/2017–11/2021
MINT: Model INTegration through Knowledge-Rich Data and Process Composition
$12,979,881 — World Modelers
#W911NF-18-1-0027

International Funding / Collaborations / Others

Global partnerships and cross-institutional initiatives.

08/2021 – 05/2022
Integrating Cyberinfrastructure Literacy into University Curricula
$4,400 — USC URAP
08/2020 – 05/2021
Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing Concepts in Simulation
$3,300 — USC URAP
08/2019 – 05/2020
Integrating core CI literacy and skills into university curricula via simulation-driven activities
$2,825 — USC URAP
1/2016–12/2018
Laboratoire Virtuel pour la Conception de Systèmes de Gestion de Workflows
24,000 € — CNRS PICS (France)
#PICS07239


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