Victor Silva
Edmonton, Alberta · (780) 977-7106 ·
vsilva[at]ualberta[dot]ca
I became one of the official maintainers of scholarly, the world's most used library for paper retrieval from Google Scholar.
I presented our paper “Analyzing and Visualizing the Canadian Research Landscape” at CASCON 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
I started my PhD studies at the University of Alberta under supervision of Joerg Sander and Eleni Stroulia;
I Defended my Masters at the University of Alberta
I was elected Recruitment Chair for Black in AI at NeurIPS 2019;
I spoke at the AI, Ethics and Society Conference, in Edmonton, Alberta; (Slides available here)
I attended SIAM-SDM 2019 in Calgary, Alberta Canada;
I presented our paper “Are Algorithms Affecting the Democracy in Brazil“, at The Ethics of Data Science Conference in Sydney, Australia (thanks to Best Paper Travel Award from USydney, Google Student Travel Award, University of Alberta GSA and FGSR Tr
I was awarded one of the BAI + LXAI scholarships for GTC 2019 in San Jose, California; (sponsored by NVIDIA)
I was invited to the second day of the NRC symposium, composed of a Think Tank/Focus Group with multidisciplinary team from Government, Enterprises, non-profits, leaders and international researchers in ethics;
I received a paper/travel award from NRC to present our poster “Algorithms and Social Media, a Challenge to Democracy” at the Canada-UK Symposium in Ethics in Artificial Intelligence in Ottawa, Ontario;
I took part in the Grace Hopper Celebration with students from Amii, in Houston, Texas (thanks to Amii sponsorship through Dale Schuurmans);
I co-organized (with Melissa Woghiren) a department trip to NeurIPS and Black in AI 2018 in Montreal, Quebec (with sponsorship from the University of Alberta Computing Science Department, Eleni Stroulia, Joerg Sander and Google Deepmind);
Started working under supervision of Joerg Sander;
Joined the Department of Computing Science of the University of Alberta as a M.Sc. Student;
I successfully defended my M.Sc. thesis “Desenvolvimento de Agentes Inteligentes para Jogos MOBA“ at UFMG;
Presented our paper "On the Development of Intelligent Agents for MOBA Games" at the Brazilian Symposium on Games and Entertainment, Brazil.
Joined the Department of Computer Science of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, as a M. Sc. student under supervision of Dr. Luiz Chaimowicz;
I presented the papers "Setting Players’ Behaviors in World of Warcraft through Semi-Supervised Learning" and "Desenvolvimento de Jogos Digitais e sua Utilização na Educação Juvenil: Um Estudo de Caso Real em um Projeto Governamental" at Brazilian Symposium of Games and Entertainment, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
I presented my first paper "Investigação da melhoria do aprendizado de alunos do ensino médio da rede pública de ensino através do uso de programação, robótica e jogos digitais" at Brazilian Symposium of Games and Entertainment, Brasilia, Brazil.
Started Game Development degree at Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Won a Bronze medal in the Brazilian National Astronomy and Astronautics Competition