Edmundo de Souza e Silva

Edmundo de Souza e Silva received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering, both from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ), and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984.

He heads the Laboratory for Modeling Analysis and Development of Networks and Computing Systems at UFRJ. He has been a Visiting Scientist and Visiting Faculty at the IBM T.J. Watson research Center, a Lecturer with the UCLA Department of Computer Science, Computer Science Department at USC, and Computer Science Department at the Politecnico di Torino. He has also been a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory. He is a member and vice-chair of the IFIP W.G. 7.3, and a member of the Board of Directors of ACM/SIGMETRICS.

He has participated in several technical committees of both international and brazilian conferences. He was a Program Committee co-Chair of the Third International Conference on Data Communication Systems and their Performance (1987, sponsored by IFIP and IEEE Communications Committee), Program Committee co-Chair of IEEE/GLOBECOM'99, Program Committee vice-co-Chair of the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC'2001), International Vice-chair of IEEE/INFOCOM'2002 and Program Committee co-Chair o ACM/Sigmetrics'2002.

He has been involved with international cooperative research programs sponsored by NSF (USA) and CNPq (Brazil) and also with INRIA (France). He was a member of the Advisory Board of CNPq (National Research Council) in 1991/1994, and 1998/2000. During 1995/1998 he was a member of the Graduate Council of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2000 he has been the coordinator of the course in Informatics of the distance learning initiative (CEDERJ) of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Presently he is also a member of the Computer Science Advisory Board of CAPES (Graduate Council of the Ministry of Education).

His research interests include modeling and analysis of computer systems, with expertise in reliability analysis, queueing networks, and stochastic processes, and application to communication networks, multimedia systems, and distributed systems. He has taught many courses (graduate and undergraduate) in these areas.

Currently he is a full professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, COPPE/ Computer Science Department. He is also a ``Researcher I-A'' of the Brazilian National Research Council.

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