Luiz A. DaSilva is the inaugural executive director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), an organization bringing together 47 institutions of higher education in Virginia, with a common mission of research, innovation, and workforce development in cybersecurity.

He is also the Bradley Professor of Cybersecurity in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Prior to that, he was the telecommunications chairholder at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and director of CONNECT – the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Future Communications and Networks.

DaSilva is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to cognitive networking and to resource management in wireless networks. He pioneered the application of game theory to analyze and design wireless networks, authoring the first book on the topic. He has also been an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, and a Virginia Tech College of Engineering Faculty Fellow.

He is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.