Silva received his
BS (1990) in
mathematics from the
Federal University of Ceará. He has his
MS (1993) and
PhD (1996) in computer science from the
State University of New York at Stony Brook. Silva joined NYU in July 2011. In conjunction with the
Major League Baseball Advanced Media, he co-developed an in-ballpark infrastructure designed to provide complete and reliable measurements of every play on the field in order to answer
analytics questions. He has published more than 220 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and holds 12 U.S. patents. He received grants from institutions including the
National Science Foundation, the
Department of Energy, the
National Institutes of Health, the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In 2013, he was elected an
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow and in 2014 he won the
IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award "in recognition of seminal advances in geometric computing for visualization and for contributions to the development of the VisTrails data exploration system." He "was the senior technology consultant (2012--2017)" for
MLB.com's
Statcast player tracking system, which won the Alpha Award for Best Analytics Innovation/Technology at the 2015
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. ==References==