Daniel Silvestre received his B.Sc. in Computer Networks in 2008 from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal, and an M.Sc. in Advanced Computing in 2009 from the Imperial College London, UK. In 2017, Prof. Dr. Silvestre obtained his Ph.D. (with the highest honors) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the former university, and during this period, he spent three months visiting his co-supervisor (Joao Hespanha) at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Currently, Prof. Dr. Silvestre holds a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Science and Technology at the NOVA University of Lisbon. He conducts his research at COPELABS and the Institute for Systems and Robotics, both in Lisbon (PT). Prof. Dr. Silvestre has authored 17 journal papers in Q1 journal, with 10 being in venues over the 92nd percentile, and 20 conference papers. His research interests span the fields of fault detection and isolation, distributed systems, network control systems, computer networks, randomized algorithms, and nonlinear optimization.
