Claudio Silva | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Federal University of Ceará Stony Brook University |
| Occupations | |
| Employer | New York University |
| Organizations | |
| Known for | Co-developer ofVisTrails |
| Spouse | Juliana Freire |
| Scientific career | |
| Doctoral advisor | Arie Kaufman |
Claudio Silva is a Brazilian Americancomputer scientist anddata scientist. He is a professor of computer science and engineering at theNew York University Tandon School of Engineering, the head of disciplines at the NYUCenter for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and affiliate faculty member at NYU'sCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.[1][2][3] He co-developed the open-source data-exploration systemVisTrails with his wifeJuliana Freire and many other collaborators.[4] He is a former chair of the executive committee for theIEEE Computer SocietyTechnical Committee on Visualization and Graphics.
Silva received hisBS (1990) inmathematics from theFederal University of Ceará. He has hisMS (1993) andPhD (1996) in computer science from theState University of New York at Stony Brook.[5][6]
Silva joined NYU in July 2011.[4] Previously, he held positions at labs includingAT&T Labs,IBM Research,Sandia National Laboratory andLawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was also a faculty member at theScientific Computing and Imaging Institute and Professor in theSchool of Computing at the University of Utah as well as a visiting professor atLinköping University in Sweden.[5]
His research interests include visualization, visual analytics, reproducibility and provenance, geometric computing, data science/big data, sports analytics, urban computing and computer graphics. He participates in interdisciplinary projects across domains such as biotechnology, neuroscience, physics, ornithology, environmental science and urban science, collaborating with companies such asAT&T.[7] In conjunction with theMajor League Baseball Advanced Media, he co-developed an in-ballpark infrastructure designed to provide complete and reliable measurements of every play on the field in order to answeranalytics questions.[8][9]
He has published more than 220 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and holds 12 U.S. patents. He received grants from institutions including theNational Science Foundation, theDepartment of Energy, theNational Institutes of Health, theAlfred P. Sloan Foundation and theGordon and Betty Moore Foundation.[1]
Silva's work has received a number of awards. TheVisTrails Provenance Plugin forAutodesk Maya received a 2009 Utah Innovation Award.[10] In 2013, he was elected anInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow and in 2014 he won theIEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award "in recognition of seminal advances in geometric computing for visualization and for contributions to the development of the VisTrails data exploration system."[1] UV-CDAT, a novel climate data analysis tool that he helped build, won the 2015Federal Laboratory Consortium Interagency Partnership Award.[11] He "was the senior technology consultant (2012--2017)" forMLB.com'sStatcast player tracking system, which won the Alpha Award for Best Analytics Innovation/Technology at the 2015MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.[12][13]