Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 2005 - December 2010, Urbana - IL, USA.
Thesis: Partial Fault Tolerance for Stream Processing Applications - Methods and Evaluation Techniques
Advisor: Prof. Ravishankar K. Iyer

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
M.S. in Computer Science, April 2003 - May 2005, Porto Alegre - RS, Brazil.
Thesis: Distributed Fault Injection for Dependability Validation of Widely Distributed Systems
Advisor: Prof. Dra. Taisy Silva Weber

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
B.S. in Computer Science, March 1999 - February 2003, Santa Maria - RS, Brazil.
Thesis: Execution Trace Generation for Visualization of Distributed Java Programs.
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Benhur Stein
Valedictorian.

Work Experience

Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Feb 2011 - present, Hawthorne, NY, USA

Data-Intensive Systems and Analytics group

Graduate Research Assistant at the DEPEND Research Group (UIUC), Fall 2005 - Summer 2010, Urbana, IL, USA

Dependability evaluation of operating systems, fault tolerance for stream processing applications.

Intern at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Summer 2009, Hawthorne, NY, USA

Manager: Kun-Lung Wu. Mentor: Bugra Gedik.
Assessment of fault tolerance for System S.

Intern at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Summer 2008, Hawthorne, NY, USA

Manager: Kun-Lung Wu. Mentor: Bugra Gedik.
Designed and implemented checkpointing and replication techniques for streaming applications; integrated such techniques in the SPADE language, a framework for designing streaming applications for System S.

Teaching Assistant of "Design of Fault-Tolerant Digital Systems (UIUC ECE 542)", Spring 2008, Urbana, IL, USA

Professor: Ravishankar K. Iyer

Intern at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Summer 2007, Hawthorne, NY, USA.

Manager: James R. Giles. Mentor: Lou Degenaro.
Integrated a disaster assistance claim streaming application with a dynamically programmed FPGA for improving stream processing performance.

Intern at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Summer 2006, Hawthorne, NY, USA.

Manager: James R. Giles. Mentor: Lou Degenaro.
Designed and implemented a failure recovery mechanism for a stream processing core job scheduler; designed and implemented fault injection tools for system validation.

Graduate Research Assistant at Fault Tolerance Research Group (UFRGS), 2003 - 2005, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Extended a testing tool for injecting communication faults through reflection using Java; designed and developed a distributed communication fault injector for distributed Java applications.

Undergraduate Research Assistant at Computer Systems Laboratory (UFSM), 2001 - 2003, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil.

Designed and developed a dynamic library for traces generation of multithreaded and distributed Java and C programs; developed a trace converter for visualizing Java programs in Pajé, a visualization tool for debugging and analyzing performance of applications.

Fellowships and Awards

DEBS 2011 Best Paper Award
William C. Carter Award 2011 - "recognizes an individual who has made a signicant contribution to the field of dependable computing through his or her graduate dissertation research" (Best student paper award DSN 2011)
IBM PhD Fellowship. Fall 2009 - Spring 2010. [1]
IBM Invention Plateau Award. September 2009.
IBM Invention Achievement Award. April 2007. September 2008. June 2009. August 2009. November 2009.
Student Travel Grant for the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). 2006, 2009.
Fellowship for Graduate Studies Abroad, CAPES Foundation/Fulbright, Brazil. August 2005 - July 2009.
Scholarship for Master Studies, CNPq Research Foundation, Brazil. March 2003 - January 2004.
Scholarship for Undergraduate Research, CNPq Research Foundation, Brazil. April 2002 - March 2003.

Patents

H. Andrade, B. Gedik, G. Jacques da Silva, K.-L. Wu. "Partial Fault Tolerant Stream Processing Applications". Filed April 2010.
H. Andrade, B. Gedik, G. Jacques da Silva, V. Kumar, K.-L. Wu. "High Availability Operator Groupings for Stream Processing Applications". Filed October 2009.
H. Andrade, B. Gedik, G. Jacques da Silva, K.-L. Wu. "Failure Recovery for Stream Processing Applications". Filed May 2009.
L. Degenaro, J. Giles, G. Jacques da Silva. "Distributed Acceleration Devices Management for Stream Processing". Filed August 2008.
L. Degenaro, J. Challenger, J. Giles, G. Jacques da Silva. "Distributed Job Manager Recovery". US Patent Number 7,779,298. Issued on Aug 17,2010.

Selected Publications

Journal

G. Jacques-Silva, J. Challenger, L. Degenaro, J. Giles, R. Wagle. "Self healing in System-S". Cluster Computing. Volume 11, Number 3, pp. 247-257. September 2008.
G. Jacques-Silva, B. O. Stein. "Geração de Rastros de Execução para Depuração de Programas Java Multiprogramados e Distribuídos". Revista Eletrônica de Iniciação Científica, Brasil, v. III, n. III, 2003.

Conferences and Workshops

G. Jacques-Silva, B. Gedik, H. Andrade, K.-L. Wu, R. K. Iyer. "Fault Injection-based Assessment of Partial Fault Tolerance in Stream Processing Applications". DEBS 2011. Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. (Best Paper Award)
G. Jacques-Silva, Z. Kalbarczyk, B. Gedik, H. Andrade, K.-L. Wu, R. K. Iyer. "Modeling Stream Processing Applications for Dependability Evaluation". DSN PDS 2011. Hong Kong, China. (William C. Carter Award)
G. Jacques-Silva, B. Gedik, H. Andrade, K.-L. Wu. "Language Level Checkpointing Support for Stream Processing Applications". DSN DCCS 2009. Estoril, Portugal.
D. Chen, G. Jacques-Silva, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer. "Error Behavior Comparison of Multiple Computing Systems: A Case Study Using Linux on Pentium, Solaris on SPARC, and AIX on POWER", PRDC 2008. Taipei, Taiwan.
G. Jacques-Silva, J. Challenger, L. Degenaro, J. Giles, R. Wagle. "Towards Autonomic Fault Recovery in System-S", ICAC 2007. Jacksonville, FL, USA.
G. Jacques-Silva, R. J. Drebes, J. Gerchman, J. M. F. Trindade, T. S. Weber, I. Jansch-Porto. "A Network-level Distributed Fault Injector for Experimental Validation of Dependable Distributed Systems", COMPSAC 2006. Chicago, IL, USA.
G. Jacques-Silva, R. J. Drebes, T. S. Weber, E. Martins. "Injecting Communication Faults to Experimentally Validate Java Distributed Applications", IEEE ISSADS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3563. Guadalajara, Mexico.
R. J. Drebes, G. Jacques-Silva, J. M. F. Trindade, T. S. Weber. "A Kernel-based Communication Fault Injector for Dependability Testing of Distributed Systems", IBM Verification Conference - 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3875. Haifa, Israel.
G. Jacques-Silva, R. J. Drebes, J. Gerchman, T. S. Weber. "FIONA: A Fault Injector for Dependability Evaluation of Java-Based Network Applications". NCA 2004. Cambridge, MA, USA.
G. Jacques-Silva, L. M. Schnorr, B. O. Stein. "JRastro: A Trace Agent for Debugging Multithreaded and Distributed Java Programs". SBAC-PAD 2003. São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Extended Abstracts

G. Jacques-Silva, R. K. Iyer, B. Gedik, H. Andrade, K.-L. Wu. "Modeling Fault Propagation in Stream Processing Applications". DSN Fast Abstract 2010. Chicago, IL.
G. Jacques-Silva, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer. "Dependability Assessment of Operating Systems in Multi-core Architectures". DSN Fast Abstract 2008. Anchorage, AK.
G. Jacques-Silva, B. O. Stein. "Uma Biblioteca Genérica de Geração de Rastros de Execução para Visualização de Programas". III WSCAD (Workshop em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho). Vitória, ES, Brasil, 2002.

Professional Service

Program Committee: DSN Fast Abstract 2010-2011. RACOS 2010-2011.
External Reviewer: CRISIS 2010, DEBS 2011, DSN 2007-2011, HASE 2008, ICAC 2007, ICAC 2010-2011, IOLTS 2008, LADC 2011, PRDC 2010-2011, SRDS 2011.
Student Volunteer: Middleware 2009. 2009 US-Brazil Innovation Learning Laboratory 2 - Chicago, IL (Rapporteur).
Organizational Co-Chair DEBS 2011.

Technical Skills

C, C++, Java, VHDL, Perl, Linux Kernel Programming

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