Jorge Silva is a senior manager, machine learning at SAS. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL) and a senior research scientist at Duke University. His research interests include statistical models applied to large-scale problems, such as manifold learning, computer vision, and recommender systems. He holds multiple US patents and has authored numerous scholarly papers. Jorge holds a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon.