WTESTBEDS reaches its third edition: registrations open
CSBC satellite event will feature the Executive Director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) and professor of Cybersecurity at Virginia Tech, Luiz DaSilva, as keynote speaker
The 3rd Testbeds Workshop (WTESTBEDS 2024), satellite event of the Brazilian Computer Society Congress (CSBC) will be held on July 24 and 25 in Brasília (DF). This year, the event will have the Executive Director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) and professor of Cybersecurity at Virginia Tech, Luiz DaSilva as keynote speaker. The presentation, which will be held on July 24, from 11 am to 1 pm, will address research on testbeds for Open RAN.
Organized by the National Education and Research Network (RNP) through the Management of Services for Experimentation and e-Ciência (GSEC), WTESTBEDS aims to offer a space for dissemination and debate on the testbeds available in Brazil and abroad, in addition to inspiring teachers, students and researchers to evaluate how these infrastructures for experimentation can contribute to experimental research in ICTs.
Registration can be done on the CSBC website.
About the keynote
Luiz DaSilva is the inaugural Executive Director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) and Professor of Cybersecurity at Virginia Tech. CCI is a consortium of 45 Virginia higher education institutions with a common mission of research, innovation, and workforce development in cybersecurity. Under Prof. DaSilva’s leadership, over the past four years, CCI programs have resulted in $192 million in extramural research funding, created 2,517 jobs, and resulted in $367 million in value added to Virginia’s GDP.
Previously, DaSilva held the Chair of Telecommunications at Trinity College Dublin, where he served as Director of CONNECT, a national telecommunications research center in Ireland. He has extensive research collaborations in Europe, Asia and South America.
He has published two books and over 300 peer-reviewed papers and chaired the Technical Program of ICC 2020, one of the IEEE Communications Society's flagship conferences. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2015-2018), a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, and is a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to cognitive networking and wireless resource management.