Claudio Silva | |
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Nationality | Brazilian American |
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Employer | New York University |
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Known for | Co-developer of VisTrails |
Spouse(s) | 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 Polytechnic 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. He co-developed the open-source data-exploration system VisTrails with his wife Juliana Freire and many other collaborators. He currently serves as chair of the executive committee for the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics.
Silva received his BS in mathematics from the Federal University of Ceará. He has his MS and PhD in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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.