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Claudio T. Silva


Center for Urban Science and Progress
New York University

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Computer Science and Engineering
NYU-Poly

(ph) 718-260-4093
Email: [first letter of my first name][last name] [at] nyu.edu (best way to reach me)

Research Interests

Big Data and Urban Systems
Visualization and Data Analysis
Geometry Processing

Bio

Claudio T. Silva is Head of Disciplines of CUSP (Center for Urban Science and Progress), Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Poly, affiliate faculty at NYU Courant, and a visiting professor at Linkoping University in Sweden. From 2003 to 2011, he was with the School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah. He has also held research positions at industrial and government labs including AT&T Labs-Research, IBM Research, Sandia National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He received the BS degree in mathematics from the Federal University of Ceara, Brazil, in 1990, and the PhD degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1996. He coauthored more than 200 technical papers and 11 U.S. patents, primarily in visualization, geometry processing, computer graphics, scientific data management, HPC, and related areas. His current research interests include Big Data and Urban Systems. He has served on more than 80 program committees, and he is currently on the editorial board of Computing in Science and Engineering, Computer and Graphics, The Visual Computer, and Graphical Models. He was general co-chair of IEEE VisWeek 2010, and papers co-chair of IEEE Visualization 2005 and 2006. He received IBM Faculty Awards in 2005, 2006, and 2007, and several best paper awards, including at IEEE Visualization 2007, IEEE Shape Modeling International 2008, the 2010 Eurographics Educator Program, the ACM Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 2011, and EuroVis 2011. His work is (or has been) funded by the NSF, NIH, DOE, IBM, Sandia, LLNL, Los Alamos, and ExxonMobil.

Select Honors

IEEE Fellow, 2013.
Best paper award, SIBGRAPI 2012
Best panel award, IEEE VisWeek 2011
Best paper award (2nd prize), EuroVis 2011
Best paper award, ACM Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization 2011
Finalist, Executable Paper Grand Challenge, 2011
Best paper award, EUROGRAPHICS 2010 Educator Program
Best poster award, 24th Brazilian Symposium On Databases (SBBD 2009)
2009 Utah Innovation Awards, VisTrails Provenance Plugin for Autodesk Maya
Best paper award, IEEE Shape Modeling International 2008
Best paper award, IEEE Visualization 2007
Best paper finalist, IEEE Shape Modeling International 2007
Dean's Teaching Commendation, Spring 2007
IBM Faculty Award, 2005, 2006, and 2007
National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral CISE Associateship Award, 1996--1997
1st place, Entrance exam, Mathematics, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil

Students and Postdocs

(Most supervised theses are available online)

NYU-Poly:
Wendel Silva (Ph.D. in progress)
Nivan Ferreira (Ph.D. in progress)
Jorge Poco (Ph.D. in progress)
Jonathas Costa (Ph.D. in progress)
Daniel K. Osmari (Ph.D. in progress)

University of Utah:
Tiago Etiene (ABD)
Matt Berger (Ph.D., 2012)
Erik Anderson (Ph.D., 2011)
David Koop (Ph.D., 2011; Co-advised with Juliana Freire)
Huy T. Vo (Ph.D., 2011)
Linh K. Ha (Ph.D., 2011; Co-advised with Sarang Joshi and Jens Krueger)
Claurissa Tuttle (M.S., 2011)
Emanuele Santos (Ph.D., 2010; Co-advised with Juliana Freire)
Hao Wang (M.S.--project option, 2010).
Carlos Scheidegger (Ph.D., 2009)
Joel D. Daniels II (Ph.D., 2009; Co-advised with Elaine Cohen)
Tilo Ochotta (Post-doc, 2008--2009)
John Schreiner (Ph.D., 2008)
Steven P. Callahan (Ph.D., 2008)
Heballa Benan Alzahawi (M.S.--project option, 2008)
Yuan Zhou (Post-doc, 2007--2008)
Louis Bavoil (M.S--thesis option, 2006)
Steven P. Callahan (M.S.--thesis option, 2005)
Shachar Fleishman (Post-doc, 2004--2005)
Sinesio Pesco (Post-doc, 2003--2004)
Dirce Uesu (Post-doc, 2003--2004)

Princeton:
Wagner Correa (Ph.D., 2003; Co-advised with Szymon Rusinkiewicz)

SUNY-Stony Brook:
Ricardo Farias (Ph.D., 2001; Co-advised with Joseph Mitchell)
Tsung-Chin Ho (Ph.D., 2001; Co-advised with Joseph Mitchell)

Publications

Supervised Theses
Online papers

Google Scholar profile
DBLP

Sponsors

Our research is (or has been) funded by the Department of Energy under the SciDAC program (SDM and VACET projects), Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, IBM Faculty Awards, NYU-Poly and the University of Utah.