Daniel Bruno Lopes da Silva

Assistant Professor

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About

Dr. Daniel Lopes da Silva joined Florida Polytechnic University as an assistant professor of industrial engineering in the fall of 2025. Prior to joining Florida Poly, he worked as a graduate assistant at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Clemson University while pursuing his Ph.D. degree.

While at Clemson, he was president (2023-2024) and vice-president (2022-2023) of the university’s student chapter of INFORMS, a global association for professionals and students in operations research, AI, analytics, data science and related disciplines. The chapter received the Magna Cum Laude Award in each of these two years. While a student, Lopes da Silva also coordinated the K-12 outreach program for Clemson University’s Department of Industrial Engineering.

Prior to this, he was a research assistant at the University of Arkansas’ Department of Industrial Engineering while pursuing a Master of Science degree. During the 2020-2021 academic year, he was secretary of its INFORMS student chapter, which was recognized with the Cum Laude Award.

Lopes da Silva’s research program focuses on operations research and its applications in critical infrastructure reliability and illicit supply chain disruption. He is passionate about engineering education and outreach.

In his free time, Lopes da Silva enjoys playing soccer, reading, traveling and jogging.

Awards and Honors

Trailblazers in Engineering Fellow, Purdue University, 2024.
Future Faculty Fellow (3F), Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2024.
Student Development Award (Outstanding Research Paper), Department of Industrial Engineering, Clemson University, 2023.
P.K. Kuroda and W.R. Thomas Endowed Fellowship, University of Arkansas, 2019 – 2021.

Education

Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, Clemson University, 2025
M.S. in Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2021
M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), 2019
B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Federal University of Alagoas (Brazil), 2017

Expertise

Network Optimization
Bilevel Programming
Multi-objective Optimization
Illicit Supply Chain Disruption
Critical Infrastructure Reliability

Professional Activities

Member, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2019-current
Member, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2019-current

Selected Publications

Lopes da Silva, D.B., Sharkey, T.C., and Song, Y. (2025). A Bilevel Network Interdiction Problem to Minimize the Number of Active Special Arcs in the Maximum Flow. INFORMS Journal on Computing, DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.2023.0423
Lopes da Silva, D.B., Sullivan, K.M. (2025). An Optimization-based Monte Carlo Method for Estimating the Two-terminal Survival Signature of Networks with Two Component Classes. Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 72(2), p. 169-186. DOI: 10.1002/nav.22218.
Lopes da Silva, D.B., Sharkey, T.C., Song, Y., Maass, K.L. (2025). Bi-objective Bilevel Network Interdiction Models for Sex Trafficking Disruption. (Under Review).
Chakrabarty, N. Sullivan, K.M., Lopes da Silva, D.B. (2024). Time-based Redeployment of Multi-class Nodes for Reliable Wireless Sensor Network Coverage. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 197(2024), 110549. DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2024.110549.

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