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Yasin Silva
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Graduate Program Director
Office #: Doyle 205
Phone: 773-508-8113
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Yasin (Yas) N. Silva is an associate professor in the Computer Science department at ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã (Chicago). He received his doctorate (2010) and master's degree (2006) in computer science from Purdue University and his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2001). Before joining ÍæÅ¼½ã½ã in 2022, Dr. Silva worked as assistant and associate professor at Arizona State University since 2010. Other work experiences include internships at IBM Research and Microsoft Research.
Dr. Silva’s research focuses on innovative ways to analyze and process data. More specifically, he has been working in the areas of social media analysis, online misbehavior detection, social computing, cyberbullying detection in social networks, big data, similarity-aware data analysis, scalable database systems, and fairness and transparency in AI. He has published many papers in top tier conference proceedings and journals in computer science such as ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, WSDM, SIAM SDM, IJCAI, IEEE TKDE, and the VLDB Journal. Dr. Silva has presented a