Daniel Cordeiro

Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades — EACH|USP

Rua Arlindo Béttio, 1000

sala I1-352D

São Paulo/SP – Brazil

03828-000

Dr. Daniel Cordeiro is an Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities at the University of São Paulo. He received his PhD in Mathematics and Informatics from the Université de Grenoble, France, and his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo. His main research interests include High Performance Computing and Scheduling Theory (and its applications to multi-objective optimization problems, approximation algorithms, algorithmic game theory, etc.). His current research projects are related to Sustainable Computing; in particular, he investigates how to apply High Performance Computing to reduce the environmental impact of running distributed applications and reduce carbon emissions in Smart Cities.

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May 28, 2026	The paper An Analysis of Software Vulnerabilities and Weaknesses in Machine Learning Libraries, co-authored with Felipe Dias, was honored with the Best Paper Award at the XXII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação.
May 20, 2026	I was interviewed by Rádio USP and Jornal da USP about the environmental impacts of data centers in Brazil. The discussion addressed the challenges posed by their expansion in the context of the energy transition. The interview is available here.
Feb 25, 2026	My colleague Prof. Ana Nusdeo (FD-USP) and I were invited by the Executive Secretariat for Climate Change of the Municipality of São Paulo to discuss the environmental impacts of AI and data centers in urban areas. The video of our talk is available here.
Jan 23, 2026	I had the pleasure of presenting our latest research on low-carbon Cloud Computing at the Journée GT Logiciel Éco-Responsable (LS2N, Nantes, France) organized by CNRS’ GdR Génie de la Programmation et du Logiciel. You can view the full program here.
Dec 17, 2025	The PlantaCura app, developed under the co-supervision of Ana Flávia Marçal Pessoa (FCF-USP) and Daniel Cordeiro (EACH-USP), was featured on Metropolitana Rio and Rádio USP. Designed for healthcare professionals, the application supports the safe prescription of medicinal plants and herbal medicines by providing evidence-informed guidance to aid clinical decision-making and promote responsible use. The technology is protected under registration no. BR 51 2024 003347-5. Listen to the full interviews here and here.
Oct 01, 2025	Invited by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), I delivered a seminar entitled “Sustainable Computing and Responsible Innovation” as part of the “Em Pauta” project hosted by the CAPES Portal de Periódicos. The presentation was conducted as a featured session in October 2025. The seminar materials are publicly available and can be accessed here.
May 24, 2025	I was interviewed on GloboNews Cidades e Soluções to discuss Sustainable Computing and the environmental impacts of AI. Watch the May 24, 2025 episode here.
May 21, 2025	I will serve as Publicity Chair for the 18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2025) and the 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies (BDCAT 2025), alongside Bo Zhang (SCI Institute, USA), Ikki Fujiwara (NII, Japan), Maurice Djibril Faye (UN-CHK, Senegal), and Serena Sebbio (U. of Messina, Italy).
May 12, 2025	Artur Egidio Launikas e Cupelli was awarded Best Undergraduate Research Project at the 32nd edition of SIICUSP at EACH (category: Exact and Earth Sciences), in recognition of our research on evaluating the energy consumption of software across different versions of the Ubuntu operating system over time (paper). Photos from the event were published by EACH-USP here.
Mar 01, 2025	Our research on Sustainable Computing was featured by Pesquisa FAPESP magazine. Click for more information.
Jan 15, 2025	With Sascha Hunold, TU Wien, Austria, I will serve as chair of the track “Track 2: Scheduling, Resource Management, Cloud, Edge Computing, and Workflows” of the 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2025). The call for papers is here.
Dec 10, 2024	The new FAPESP Science for Development Center “Carbon Neutral Cities” (FAPESP #24/01115-0) was launched. Some press coverage from IPT and FAPESP.
Apr 01, 2024	I am now part of the FAPESP “thematic” project EcoSustain: computer and data science for the environment (FAPESP #23/00811-0).