Cláudio Silva is a professor of computer science and engineering and data science at New York University. He received a BS in mathematics from the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil) in 1990, and a PhD in computer science from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1996. He has held positions in academia and industry, including at AT&T, IBM, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, and the University of Utah. Cláudio has advised and/or mentored over 45 PhD, MS, and post-doctoral associates. He has published over 250 research publications, is an inventor of 12 US patents, and co-authored 14 papers that have received “Best Paper Awards” (including honorable mention). He has over 14,000 citations according to Google Scholar. He is an IEEE Fellow and was the recipient of the 2014 Visualization Technical Achievement Award. He worked on the research and development team for Major League Baseball (MLB) MLB.com's Statcast player tracking system, which has won the Alpha Award for Best Analytics Innovation/Technology at the 2015 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and a 2017 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).