Luiz DaSilva

About

I am currently the Executive Director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), and the Bradley Professor of Cybersecurity in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. I was previously the Professor of Telecommunications (personal chair) at Trinity College Dublin. Until March 2020, I served as the Director of CONNECT, the telecommunications research centre funded by the Science Foundation Ireland. My own research focuses on distributed and adaptive resource management in wireless networks, and in particular cognitive radio networks and the application of game theory to wireless networks.

I also serve as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) WISPER, which is pioneering transformative wireless and networking technologies. I currently serve as Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI on three NSF-funded projects.

I am an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2015-2018). I am a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, and a Fellow of the IEEE, for contributions to cognitive networking and to resource management in wireless networks.

Curriculum vitae: CV_LAD

Contact: ldasilva <at> vt <dot> edu

Press:

• Virginia Business, October 2019: Researcher to lead Virginia Cyber Initiative
• Tech Central, June 2018: Focus on Research: Prof. Luiz DaSilva, CONNECT
• Irish Times, January 2017: TCD team wins €560,000 funding to research 5G technology