Cynthia Marcelino

Research Scientist

Dipl.-Ing, BSc

c.marcelino @ dsg.tuwien.ac.at

+43 1 58801 18459

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Short CV

Cynthia is a project assistant and a PhD student at the DSG at TU Wien. In 2021, she received her master’s degree in Software Engineering & Internet Computing at TU Wien. She has a strong industry background as a software engineer and consultant in the telco sector, where she worked on large-scale distributed systems and cloud-based solutions. In 2023, she joined the Distributed Systems Group of the Institute of Information Systems to pursue a PhD, focusing on serverless computing for the next generation of the compute continuum.

Research Interests

• Serverless Computing
• Edge-Cloud-Space Continuum
• Internet of Things
• Edge Intelligence

Thesis & Project Supervision

If you are interested in one of the topics above, I can co-advise your bachelor’s or master’s thesis.

Co-Supervised Theses

• Jack Shahhoud, “SIWA: Wasm Serverless Actors for the Edge-Cloud Continuum”, Diploma Thesis, TU Wien, 2024
• Leonard Guelmino “Skylark: Stateful Serverless Function for the Edge-Cloud-Space 3D Continuum”, Diploma Thesis, TW Wien, 2025.
• Noah Krennmair (BSc Thesis, in progress)
• Sebastian Gollhofer-Berger, “A Cost Model and Classification for Serverless Workflows”, Bachelor Thesis, 2025.

Grants and Awards

• 🏆 IoT 2024 Best Paper Award for “GoldFish: Serverless Actors with Short-Term Memory State for the Edge-Cloud Continuum”

• 🌟 Netidee Project Grant Leotrek - Call 19 (2024)

• 🌟 TU Wien Informatics “Doktorandinnen ans Rednerpult”: SEC 2023 - IoT 2024

Publications

1. Marcelino, C., & Nastic, S. (2024). Truffle: Efficient Data Passing for Data-Intensive Serverless Workflows in the Edge-Cloud Continuum. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC ’24). [Paper]
2. Pusztai, T., Marcelino, C., & Nastic, S. (2024). HyperDrive: Scheduling Serverless Functions in the Edge-Cloud-Space 3D Continuum. In Proceedings of the Ninth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC ’24). [Paper]
3. Marcelino, C., Shahhoud, J., & Nastic, S. (2024). GoldFish: Serverless Actors with Short-Term Memory State for the Edge-Cloud Continuum. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT ’24). [Paper]
4. Marcelino, C., & Nastic, S. (2023). CWASI: A WebAssembly Runtime Shim for Inter-function Communication in the Serverless Edge-Cloud Continuum. In Proceedings of the Eighth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC ’23) (pp. 158–170). https://doi.org/10.1145/3583740.3626611 [Paper]
5. Arcanjo Marcelino, C. K. (2021). Data Locality-Aware Scheduling for Serverless Edge Computing (Diploma Thesis). Wien. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2021.79260 [Paper]

Academic Community

Program Committee Memberships

• The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Federated Learning Technologies and Applications (FLTA24). [TPC mem.]

• The 25th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2024). [TPC mem.]

Reviewer

I have been a reviewer for the following

• Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet)
• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
• IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC)
• International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT)
• International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par)
• International Conference on Information Science and System (ICISS)