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. In 2023, after years working as Software Engineer in the telco industry, she joined the Distributed Systems Group of the Institute of Information Systems to pursue a PhD.

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 (MSc Thesis, SIWA: Wasm Serverless Actors for the Edge-Cloud Continuum)
• Leonard Guelmino (MSc Thesis, in progress)
• Noah Krennmair (BSc Thesis, in progress)
• Sebastian Gollhofer-Berger (BSc Thesis, in progress)

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)