Dilma Menezes Da Silva is a Brazilian-American systems software researcher known for her work in

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.. She holds the Ford Motor Company Design Professorship II at

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, and is head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M.curriculum vitae
February 2015, retrieved 2015-08-15.. She has been a Division Director for Computing and Communication Foundations at the

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since June 2022.Da Silva named division director at National Science Foundation
June 2022, retrieved 2023-12-19. In December 2023, she has been named as the acting assistant director of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the

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.Da Silva Assumes Key Role Overseeing Computer Science Research Funding at NSF
December 2023, retrieved 2023-12-19.

Biography

Da Silva earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the

University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the best ...

in 1986 and 1990 respectively. She completed her doctorate in 1997 from the

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under the supervision of

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. She returned to the University of São Paulo as a senior lecturer in 1995, and on completion of her doctorate became an assistant professor there. In 2000 she moved to IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where she worked as a research staff member in IBM's Advanced Operating System Group. At IBM, her contributions included work on the

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of the K42 experimental operating system. In 2012 she moved to

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's Silicon Valley Research Center. At Qualcomm, her work was centered on

. In 2014 she returned to academia as the Ford Professor at Texas A&M,. and as the new head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Awards

Da Silva became a Distinguished Member of the

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in 2011.Distinguished member award citation
retrieved 2015-08-15.

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Da Silva, Dilma M. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Brazilian computer scientists American computer scientists American women computer scientists Brazilian women computer scientists Brazilian emigrants to the United States University of São Paulo alumni Georgia Tech alumni Academic staff of the University of São Paulo Texas A&M University faculty American women academics 21st-century American women