Bio
Jorge Silva received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, in 2007. From 2007 to 2012 he was a research scientist at Duke University, where he applied statistical models to large-scale problems, e.g., unsupervised learning, analysis of multi-modal data, recommender systems and social networks. Since 2012 he is a Senior Research Statistician Developer at SAS, where he develops high-performance distributed algorithms for Enterprise Miner. He has filed two US patents and authored numerous articles in scholarly journals.