Claudio Silva (computer scientist)
{{short description|Computer scientist and data scientist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2016}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Claudio Silva
| image =
| nationality = Brazilian American
| alma_mater = Federal University of Ceará
Stony Brook University
| doctoral_advisor = Arie Kaufman
| occupation = {{unbulleted list|Academic |Computer scientist |Data scientist}}
| employer = New York University
| organization = {{unbulleted list| New York University Tandon School of Engineering | Center for Urban Science and Progress | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences}}
| known_for = Co-developer of VisTrails
| spouse = Juliana Freire
}}
Claudio Silva is a Brazilian American computer scientist and data scientist. He is a professor of computer science and engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, the head of disciplines at the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and affiliate faculty member at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.{{cite web |url=http://www.ecnmag.com/news/2014/11/nyu-professor-wins-premier-award-data-visualization-field |title=NYU professor wins premier award in the data visualization field |author= |date=November 12, 2014 |website=ecnmag.com |publisher=Advantage Business Media |access-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105211551/http://www.ecnmag.com/news/2014/11/nyu-professor-wins-premier-award-data-visualization-field|archive-date=January 5, 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/traffic-data-privacy-sharing-city-planning |title=Would You Share Private Data for the Good of City Planning? |last1=Grabar |first1=Henry |date=January 27, 2015 |website=nextcity.org |publisher=Next City |access-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234438/https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/traffic-data-privacy-sharing-city-planning|archive-date=September 27, 2020}}{{cite web |url=http://www.xconomy.com/new-york/2013/08/28/microsoft-research-grabs-more-room-for-data-science-in-silicon-alley/ |title=Microsoft Research Grabs More Room for Data Science in Silicon Alley |last1=Ruth |first1=João-Pierre S. |date=August 28, 2013 |website=xconomy.com |publisher=Xconomy, Inc |access-date=September 4, 2015}} He co-developed the open-source data-exploration system VisTrails with his wife Juliana Freire and many other collaborators.{{cite web |url=http://engineering.nyu.edu/news/2012/02/13/decoding-deep-juliana-freire-and-claudio-silva-join-nyu-poly |title=Decoding the Deep: Juliana Freire and Caludio Silva Join NYU-Poly |author= |date=February 13, 2012 |website=engineering.nyu.edu |publisher=NYU School of Engineering |access-date=September 4, 2015}} He is a former chair of the executive committee for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics.
About
Silva received his BS (1990) in mathematics from the Federal University of Ceará. He has his MS (1993) and PhD (1996) in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.{{cite web |url=http://engineering.nyu.edu/cable/faculty-appointments/2011/november/claudio-silva |title=Claudio Silva |author= |website=engineering.nyu.edu |publisher=New York University |access-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907081801/http://engineering.nyu.edu/cable/faculty-appointments/2011/november/claudio-silva |archive-date=September 7, 2015 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last1=Silva |first1=Claudio |title=CV |url=https://ctsilva.github.io/cv/ |website=Claudio Silva's webpage |access-date=19 May 2022}}
Silva joined NYU in July 2011. Previously, he held positions at labs including AT&T Labs, IBM Research, Sandia National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was also a faculty member at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah as well as a visiting professor at Linköping University in Sweden.
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 as AT&T.{{cite book |last1=Post |first1=Frits |last2=Nielson |first2=Gregory |last3=Bonneau |first3=Georges-Pierre |date=December 6, 2012 |title=Data Visualization: The State of the Art |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZnqBwAAQBAJ&q=claudio+silva+at%26t&pg=PA157 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |page=157 |isbn=9781461511779 |access-date=September 4, 2015}} In conjunction with the Major 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 answer analytics questions.{{cite web |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/mlbam-introduces-new-way-to-analyze-every-play/c-68514514 |title=MLBAM introduces new way to analyze every play |last1=Newman |first1=Mark |date=March 1, 2014 |website=MLB.com |publisher=MLB.com |access-date=September 4, 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://nyulocal.com/national/2014/04/30/cameras-are-the-future-of-front-office-decisions-in-sports/ |title=Cameras Are The Future (Of Front Office Decisions In Sports) |last1=Sondhi |first1=Paul |date=April 30, 2014 |website=nyulocal.com |publisher=NYULocal |access-date=September 4, 2015}}
He has published more than 220 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and holds 12 U.S. patents. He received grants from institutions including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
=Recognition=
Silva's work has received a number of awards. The VisTrails Provenance Plugin for Autodesk Maya received a 2009 Utah Innovation Award.{{cite web |url=http://www.stoel.com/winners-announced-in-the-2009-utah-innovation-awards |title=Winners Announced in the 2009 Utah Innovation Awards |author= |date=April 30, 2009 |website=stoel.com |publisher=Stoel Rivers LLP |access-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105170214/http://www.stoel.com/winners-announced-in-the-2009-utah-innovation-awards |archive-date=January 5, 2016 |url-status=dead|df=mdy-all }} In 2013, he was elected an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow and in 2014 he won the IEEE 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." UV-CDAT, a novel climate data analysis tool that he helped build, won the 2015 Federal Laboratory Consortium Interagency Partnership Award.{{cite web |url=http://climatechangescience.ornl.gov/content/uv-cdat-team-wins-federal-laboratory-consortium-interagency-partnership-award |title=UV-CDAT team wins Federal Laboratory Consortium Interagency Partnership Award |last1=Ewing |first1=VJ |date=March 4, 2015 |website=climatechangescience.ornl.gov |publisher=US Department of Energy |access-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911231703/http://climatechangescience.ornl.gov/content/uv-cdat-team-wins-federal-laboratory-consortium-interagency-partnership-award |archive-date=September 11, 2015 |url-status=dead|df=mdy-all }} He "was the senior technology consultant (2012--2017)" for MLB.com's Statcast player tracking system, which won the Alpha Award for Best Analytics Innovation/Technology at the 2015 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.{{cite web |url=http://m.mlb.com/news/article/110774884/statcast-player-tracking-system-wins-alpha-award-for-best-analytics-innovationtechnology |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150303151634/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/110774884/statcast-player-tracking-system-wins-alpha-award-for-best-analytics-innovationtechnology |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 3, 2015 |title=Statcast wins prestigious Alpha Award for innovation |last1=Leach |first1=Matthew |date=February 28, 2015 |work=MLB.com |access-date=September 4, 2015}}{{cite web |title=Claudio Silva |url=https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/claudio-silva |website=NYU Tandon School of Engineering |access-date=19 May 2022}}
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Category:American computer scientists
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