Rafael da Silva

À propos

Education

I am a PhD in Computer Science at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and during my thesis I developed a Monte Carlo based method for Seismic Inversion implemented in a distributed environment.

I received my MSc Degree in Systems Engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro working with distributed shared memory systems.

Work at Microsoft Research

I am a member of  the Systems Research Group, and I am currently working on Serverless project.

My previous work at Microsoft Research includes:

• Project Fiddle (data lineage for large language models), working in research and development of the MGit tool
• Optimization of DNN workloads in the the cloud using GPUs
• Self-managed datacenters
• Large scale machine learning services

Previous work

Before Microsoft Research I have 20 years of experience in high performance parallel and distributed systems and applications.