Pedro Silvestre is a PhD student in the Large-Scale Data & Systems Group at Imperial College London, under the supervision of Dr. Peter Pietzuch. His research at Imperial focuses on the interplay between Dataflow Systems and novel Deep Learning workloads, in particular Deep Reinforcement Learning. Before Imperial, he was a Research Engineer at the TU Delft’s Web Information Systems Group working on Clonos.

Interests
  • Deep (Reinforcement) Learning
  • Distributed (Dataflow) Systems
  • Compilers & Hardware Acceleration
Education
  • PhD in Accelerating Deep Reinforcement Learning, 2021-Present

    Imperial College London

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2018-2020

    Nova School of Science and Technology

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2015-2018

    Nova School of Science and Technology