Cláudio Silva is a professor of computer science and engineering and data science at New York University. His primary research interests are in visualization, geometric computing, data science, sports analytics, and urban computing. 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 was also a postdoc in applied mathematics at Stony Brook in 1996-7.