Claudio Silva

Claudio Silva is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and a Professor of Data Science at the NYU Center for Data Science. He is also affiliated with the Center for Urban Science and Progress and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Silva received his BS in mathematics from the Universidade Federal do Ceará in 1990 and his MS and PhD in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1996. His research interests include visualization and graphics, geometric computing, data science, urban computing, and sports analytics. He has published over 300 papers, including 20 that have received best paper awards, and has over 26,000 citations according to Google Scholar.

Claudio T. Silva is a researcher at New York University with expertise in Visualization, Graphics, Urban Computing, Geometry Processing, and Sports Analytics. His work focuses on developing algorithms for surface reconstruction, such as the ball-pivoting algorithm and robust moving least-squares fitting. He has contributed to visualization tools like VisTrails and explored the use of visualization in urban data analysis, including studies on New York City taxi trips. His research also addresses workflow management and provenance in computational tasks, emphasizing interactive and multi-view visualization techniques. Silva's publications highlight the intersection of geometry processing and data analysis, with applications in urban noise monitoring and sports analytics.