Claudio Silva is a Brazilian American

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and

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. He is a professor of computer science and engineering at the

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, the head of disciplines at the NYU

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(CUSP) and affiliate faculty member at NYU's

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. He co-developed the open-source data-exploration system

VisTrails VisTrails is a scientific workflow management system developed at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah that provides support for data exploration and visualization. It is written in Python and employs Qt via ...

with his wife

Juliana Freire Juliana Freire de Lima e Silva is a Brazilian computer scientist who works as a professor of computer science and engineering at the New York University.. She is known for her research in information visualization, data provenance, and computeriz ...

and many other collaborators. He is a former chair of the executive committee for the

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About

Silva received his BS (1990) in

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from the

Federal University of Ceará The Federal University of Ceará ( pt, Universidade Federal do Ceará, UFC) is a federal university with campuses in the cities of Fortaleza, Sobral, Barbalha, Russas, Quixadá and Crateús, in the state of Ceará, Brazil. UFC is a public ...

. He has his MS (1993) and PhD (1996) in computer science from the

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. Silva joined NYU in July 2011. Previously, he held positions at labs including

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IBM Research IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. IBM Research is the largest industrial research org ...

Sandia National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), also known as Sandia, is one of three research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Headquartered in Kirtland Air Force Bas ...

and

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

. 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

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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

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. In conjunction with the

Major League Baseball Advanced Media MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) is a limited partnership of the club owners of Major League Baseball (MLB) based in New York City and is the Internet and interactive branch of the league. Robert Bowman, former president and CEO of MLBAM, indicated in ...

, he co-developed an in-ballpark infrastructure designed to provide complete and reliable measurements of every play on the field in order to answer

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questions. 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

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, the

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, the

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, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is an American foundation established by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore and his wife Betty I. Moore in September 2000 to support scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care improvements a ...

Recognition

Silva's work has received a number of awards. The

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received a 2009 Utah Innovation Award. In 2013, he was elected an

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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

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Interagency Partnership Award. He "was the senior technology consultant (2012--2017)" for

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player tracking system, which won the Alpha Award for Best Analytics Innovation/Technology at the 2015

MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) is an annual event that provides a forum for industry professionals (executives and leading researchers) and students to discuss the increasing role of analytics in the sports industry. The conferen ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Silva, Claudio American computer scientists Brazilian computer scientists Information visualization experts Living people Fellow Members of the IEEE Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty University of Utah faculty Stony Brook University alumni Scientists from New York (state) Computer graphics researchers Sloan Research Fellows Sandia National Laboratories people Year of birth missing (living people) Federal University of Ceará alumni