Dr. Cynthia Marcelino

Research Scientist

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c.marcelino @ dsg.tuwien.ac.at

+43 1 58801 18459

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Short CV

Cynthia received her PhD from DSG at TU Wien in 2026. 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 2022, 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

• Michael Kurz (MSc Thesis, in progress)
• Hermann Stoss, “Multi-Objective Optimization for Function Offloading in the 3D Compute Continuum”, Bachelor Thesis, TU Wien, 2025.
• Maximilian Reisecker, “Hybrid CPU-GPU Execution for Serverless AI: A Static and Dynamic Analysis Approach”, Diploma Thesis, TU Wien, 2025.
• Florian Trimmel, “STORE: Self-Provisioning Storage for the Next Generation of Serverless Computing”, Diploma Thesis, TU Wien, 2025.
• Noah Krennmair, “Benchmarking WebAssembly as a Serverless Runtime for the Edge-Cloud Continuum”, Bachelor Thesis, TU Wien, 2025.
• Leonard Guelmino, “Skylark: Stateful Serverless Function for the Edge-Cloud-Space 3D Continuum”, Diploma Thesis, TU Wien, 2025.
• Sebastian Gollhofer-Berger, “A Cost Model and Classification for Serverless Workflows”, Bachelor Thesis, TU Wien, 2025.
• Jack Shahhoud, “SIWA: Wasm Serverless Actors for the Edge-Cloud Continuum”, Diploma Thesis, TU Wien, 2024.

Honors 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. Reisecker, M., Marcelino, C., Pusztai, T., & Nastic, S. (2025). Gaia: Hybrid Hardware Acceleration for Serverless AI in the 3D Compute Continuum. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 12th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies. [Paper]
2. Marcelino, C., Pusztai, T., & Nastic, S. (2025). Roadrunner: Accelerating Data Delivery to WebAssembly-based Serverless Functions. In Proceedings of the 24th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 25). [Paper]
3. Gajanin, R., Marcelino, C., & Nastic, S. (2025). Performance Isolation for Serverless Functions. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing. [Paper]
4. Marcelino, C., Guelmino, L., Pusztai, T., & Nastic, S. (2025). Databelt: A Continuous Data Path for Serverless Workflows in the 3D Compute Continuum. Journal of Systems Architecture. [Paper]
5. Marcelino, C., Krennmair, N., Pusztai, T., & Nastic, S. (2025). Lumos: Performance Characterization of WebAssembly as a Serverless Runtime in the Edge-Cloud Continuum. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 25). [Paper]
6. Pusztai, T., Hisberger, J., Marcelino, C., & Nastic, S. (2025). Stardust: A Scalable and Extensible Simulator for the 3D Continuum. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE). [Paper]
7. Marcelino, C., Gollhofer-Berger, S., Pusztai, T., & Nastic, S. (2025). Cosmos: A Cost Model for Serverless Workflows in the 3D Compute Continuum. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 25). [Paper]
8. 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]
9. 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]
10. 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]
11. 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]

Thesis

• Marcelino, C. (2021). Data Locality-Aware Scheduling for Serverless Edge Computing (Diploma Thesis). Wien. https://doi.org/10.34726/hss.2021.79260

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)