Filipi Silva
Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolFilipi Silva is a Research Assistant Professor and interdisciplinary data scientist with 11 years of experience combining network science, machine learning, and visualization to tackle problems across social, biological, and scholarly systems. He built Helios-web for visualizing massive networks and has contributed visualization and 3D animation features to the popular FURY rendering library, reflecting hands-on full-stack visualization skills. With a Ph.D. in Computational Physics and over 50 publications (h-index 20), he blends rigorous theory with practical tooling to study coordination on social media, narrative and phonetic representations, single-cell and neuroscience networks, and Science of Science trajectories. He also experiments with fine-tuned transformers and LLM-driven interactive visualizations, revealing a knack for making complex analyses accessible and interactive. Based in Bloomington and now at Kellogg—Northwestern, he pairs academic depth with open-source impact and product-minded engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computation Physics, Ph.D Computation Physics at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
3d-graphics10
python10
scientific-visualization10
javascript9
webrtc9
networkx8
numpy8
dockers7
python-multiprocessing7
multi-process7
docker7
multiprocessing7
dart6
flutter6
framebuffer6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fury-gl/fury
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
FURY - Free Unified Rendering in pYthon.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 reviews, 13 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Filipi contributed to visualizing and animating network structures within the Fury framework. They implemented a force-directed layout for the network and added a simpler animation using random displacements to node positions, demonstrating a focus on 3D graphics and scientific visualization. The user's work included updates to the UI and incorporated features such as mouse wheel throttling. The user also incorporated support for broadcasting using MediaRelay, extending the project's capabilities.
pythonshadersfurysimulationrendering
filipinascimento/openalex-raw
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Tools to process OpenAlex raw snapshot files
Contributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
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