Mirco Musolesi
Curriculum Vitae
Office Address: Department of Geography, University College London. Pearson Building. Gower Street. WC1E 6BT London. Mobile Phone Number: +44 (0) 790 9965484 E-mail Address: [email protected] Personal Webpage: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfamus/
Current Position
Reader in Data Science at the Department of Geography, University College London.
Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science.
Education
May 2007 PhD in Computer Science from University College London, United Kingdom. PhD Thesis title: “Context-aware Adaptive Routing for Delay Tolerant Networking”. Supervisor: Prof. Cecilia Mascolo (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge).
December 2002 Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica (MSci in Electronic Engineering) from University of Bologna, Italy. Master thesis title: “A Data Sharing Middleware for Mobile Computing“. Final Mark: 96/100.
Winner of a competitive scholarship from the School of Engineering of the University of Bologna for a research period abroad for the preparation of the Master thesis degree (based on the presentation of an innovative research proposal and academic merit). The thesis was prepared at the Department of Computer Science, University College London from June to November 2002.
July 1995 Maturita’ scientifica (baccalaureate) from Liceo Scientifico Augusto Righi, Bologna, Italy. I was enrolled in a special teaching programme with a focus on mathematics, physics and computing. Final Mark: 60/60.
Research and Teaching Employment History
June 2015-now Reader in Data Science at the Department of Geography, University College London.
April 2016-now Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science.
June 2015-now Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.
March 2014-May 2015 Reader in Networked Systems and Data Science at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.
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September 2011-February 2014 Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.
November 2009-August 2011 SICSA Lecturer in Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews. The lectureship position was supported by SICSA, the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance for the promotion of research excellence in Scotland. The lectureship was permanent.
September 2008-October 2009 Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. I was involved in the EPSRC Ubival project on mobility modelling for designing and testing mobile and ubiquitous systems. I was also actively involved in other projects regarding the design of ubiquitous systems based on smart phones and mobile sensing systems.
September 2007-August 2008 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire, USA) working in the Sensor Network Group, as a Fellow of the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society (ISTS). I was involved in the MetroSense Project (http://metrosense.cs.dartmouth.edu), investigating the design and the implementation of sensing systems based on mobile phones and fixed sensors dispersed in urban environments. MetroSense was a collaborative project between Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Intel, Nokia and Motorola.
October 2003-August 2007 Research Student and Research Fellow (since October 2005) at the Department of Computer Science, University College London, under the supervision of Dr. Cecilia Mascolo, working in the area of mobile systems. I participated in the EPSRC Coordination and Reliability Mechanisms for Adaptive Mobile Middleware (CREAM) Project, investigating novel communication architectures and protocols to support communication in highly dynamic environments such as intermittently connected mobile and sensor networks.
July 2003-September 2003 Research Assistant (internship) at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Automation, at Rocquencourt, Paris, working in the Arles Group headed by Dr. Valerie Issarny in the Ozone Research Project (design and implementation of a Web services based middleware for mobile computing and ambient intelligence), in collaboration with Philips Research and Thomson Multimedia.
June 2002-November 2002 Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science of University College London in the Software Systems Engineering Group for the preparation of his Master degree thesis working on the XMIDDLE project (design and implementation of a data sharing middleware for mobile computing).
Research Visits
April 2015 Research visit at the School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University (hosted by Prof. Ross Maciejweski).
April 2014 Research visit at Prof. Laszlo Barabasi’s Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University.
August 2013 Research visit at the Department of Computer Science, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, University of Helsinki (hosted by Dr Petteri Nurmi).
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January 2017-December 2019 EPSRC Project: UPRISE-IoT: User Centric PRivacy&Security in the IoT Single PI Total Funding from EPSRC: £ 340,791
April 2014-October 2017 EPSRC Project: MACACO: Mobile context-Adaptive CAching for Content-centric networking Single PI Total Funding from EPSRC: £ 284,801
March 2014-March 2015 EPSRC First Grant Scheme Project: Trajectories of Depression: Investigating the Correlation between Human Mobility Patterns and Mental Health Problems by means of Smartphones Single PI Total Funding from EPSRC: £ 94,821
November 2012-October 2015 FP7 FET Proactive Initiative Project (funded under the Dynamics of Multi-Level Complex Systems call): Multi-Layer Spatio-temporal Generalized Networks (LASAGNE) Single PI for Birmingham Total Funding from EU: Euro 2,075,000 Total Funding for Birmingham: Euro 219,375
January 2012-December 2014 EPSRC Project: The Uncertainty of Identity: Linking Spatiotemporal Information between Virtual and Real Worlds Single PI for Birmingham Total Funding: £ 1.2M from EPSRC Total Funding for Birmingham: £ 352,544
November 2011-October 2014 EPSRC Project: UBhave: Ubiquitous and Social Computing for Positive Behaviour Change Single PI for Birmingham Total Funding from EPSRC: £ 1,524,141 Total Funding for Birmingham: £ 169,111
October 2010 Travel Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering for attending UbiComp'10 in Copenhagen.
February 2009 Winner of the CambridgeSense Initiative competition. Title of the project: Leaders, Friends and Strangers: Infer People Roles and Interactions using Mobile Phones. Funding amount: £ 5,000 for research equipment.
January 2008 Co-PI of a winning research proposal for the Mobile Sensing Platform Research Challenge sponsored by Intel Corporation. Title of the project: Share and Infer: Cooperative Sensing for Activity Inferring. Intel is providing sensing devices and software.
Awards
Best Paper Award at ACM UbiComp 2016 for “PrefMiner: Mining User’s Preferences for Intelligent Mobile Notifications” (September 2016).
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (April 2015). Declined for change of institution.
3 Data for Development (D4D) Challenge (Best Overall prize) organized by Orange and MIT for the submission “Exploiting Cellular Data for Disease Containment and Information Campaigns Strategies in Country-wide Epidemics” (May 2013).
Nokia Mobile Data Open Challenge Prize for the submission “Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions” (June 2012).
Cambridge Computer Lab Ring Most Notable Publication for the Year 2012 for the paper “Track Globally, Deliver Locally: Improving Content Delivery Networks by Tracking Geographic Social Cascades”.
Top 100 Innovations of the Year 2010 for the EmotionSense Project was selected awarded by the independent global agency NetExplorateur. The awards event took place in Paris at UNESCO in February 2011.
Publications
Bibliometrics Indicators h-index: 35 Total number of citations: 6979 (according to Google Scholar, as of 3rd October 2016).
Papers in International Journals
[J1] Matthew J. Williams and Mirco Musolesi. Spatio-temporal Networks: Reachability, Centrality and Robustness. In Royal Society Open Science. Volume 3. Number 6. June 2016. The Royal Society Publishing.
[J2] Fani Tsapeli and Mirco Musolesi. Investigating Causality in Human Behavior from Smartphone Sensor Data: A Quasi Experimental Approach. In EPJ Data Science. Volume 4. Issue 24. December 2015. Springer.
[J3] Luca Rossi and Mirco Musolesi. Spatio-temporal Techniques for User Identification by means of GPS Mobility Data. In EPJ Data Science. Volume 4. Issue 11. August 2015. Springer.
[J4] Antonio Lima, Manlio De Domenico, Veljko Pejovic, and Mirco Musolesi. Disease Containment Strategies based on Mobility and Information Dissemination. In Nature Scientific Reports. 5:10650. June 2015. Nature Publishing Group.
[J5] Kai Zhao, Mirco Musolesi, Pan Hui, Weixiong Rao, and Sasu Tarkoma. Explaining the Power-law Distribution of Human Mobility Through Transportation Modality Decomposition. In Nature Scientific Reports. 5:9136. March 2015. Nature Publishing Group.
[J6] Veljko Pejovic and Mirco Musolesi. Anticipatory Mobile Computing: A Survey of the State of the art and Research Challenges. In ACM Computing Surveys. Volume 47. Issue 3. April 2015. ACM Press.
[J7] Mirco Musolesi. Big Mobile Data Mining: Good or Evil? In IEEE Internet Computing. January-February 2014. IEEE Press.
[J8] Manlio De Domenico, Antonio Lima and Mirco Musolesi. Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions. In Pervasive and Mobile Computing. Volume 9. Issue 6. Pages 798- 807. December 2013. Elsevier.
[J9] Manlio De Domenico, Antonio Lima, Paul Mougel and Mirco Musolesi. The Anatomy of a Scientific Rumor. Nature Scientific Reports. 3: 2980. October 2013. Nature Publishing Group.
[J10] Neal Lathia, Veljko Pejovic, Kiran Rachuri, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Peter J. Rentfrow. Smartphones for Large-Scale Behaviour Change Intervention. In IEEE Pervasive Computing. Volume 12. Issue 3. Pages 66-73. July-September 2013.
4 [J11] Vincenzo Nicosia, John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Giovanni Russo, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora. Components in Time-varying Graphs. Chaos. American Institute of Physics. Volume 22. Issue 2. April 2012.
[J12] John Tang, Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora. Small-world Behavior in Time-varying Graphs. In Physical Review E. Volume 81, Number 5, 055101(R). May 2010. American Physical Society.
[J13] John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora. Characterising Temporal Distance and Reachability in Mobile and Online Social Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. Volume 40. Number 1. January 2010. Pages 118-124. ACM Press.
[J14] Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. CAR: Context-aware Adaptive Routing for Delay Tolerant Networks. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Volume 40. Number 1. February 2009. Pages 246-260. IEEE Press.
[J15] Andrew T. Campbell, Shane B. Eisenman, Nicholas D. Lane, Emiliano Miluzzo, Ronald A. Peterson, Hong Lu, Xiao Zheng, Mirco Musolesi, Kristof Fodor, and Gahng-Seop Ahn. The Rise of People-Centric Sensing. In IEEE Internet Computing. Special Issue on Mesh Networks. Volume 12, Number 4. July/August 2008. Pages 12-21. IEEE Press.
[J16] Paolo Costa, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Gian Pietro Picco. Socially-aware Routing for Publish-Subscribe in Delay-tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Volume 26, Number 5. Pages 748-760. June 2008. IEEE Press.
[J17] Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. Designing Mobility Models based on Social Network Theory. In ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review. Volume 11, Number 3. Pages 59-70. July 2007. ACM Press.
[J18] Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Stephen Hailes. EMMA: Epidemic Messaging Middleware for Ad hoc networks. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Volume 10, Number 1. Pages 28-36. February 2006. Springer.
Edited Special Issues of Journals
[SI1] Pervasive and Mobile Computing. Special Issue on Human Behaviour in Ubiquitous Environments: Modeling of Human Mobility Patterns. Guest editor with George D. Magoulas and George Roussos. Volume 6. Issue 5. October 2010. Elsevier.
[SI2] Pervasive and Mobile Computing. Special Issue on Human Behaviour in Ubiquitous Environments: Experience and Interaction Design. Guest editor with George D. Magoulas and George Roussos. Volume 6, Issue 4. August 2010. Elsevier.
Chapters in Edited Books
[B1] Vincenzo Nicosia, John Tang, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, Giovanni Russo and Vito Latora. Graph Metrics for Temporal Networks. In Petter Holme and Jari Saramaki (Eds.). Temporal Networks. Springer. 2013.
[B2] John Tang, Ilias Leontiadis, Salvatore Scellato, Vincenzo Nicosia, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Vito Latora. In Petter Holme and Jari Saramaki (Eds.). Temporal Networks. Springer. 2013.
[B3] Kiran K. Rachuri, Cecilia Mascolo and Mirco Musolesi. Energy-Accuracy Trade-offs of Sensor Sampling in Smart Phone based Sensing Systems. In Mobile Context Awareness. Pages 65-76. Springer. 2012.
[B4] Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. Mobility Models for Systems Evaluation. A Survey. In Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications. State of the Art. Pages 43-62. Springer. 2009.
5 [B5] Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Vito Latora. Epcast: Controlled Dissemination in Human-based Wireless Networks by means of Epidemic Spreading Models. In Bio- inspired Computing and Communication. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS) 5151. Pages 295-306. Springer. 2007.
Papers in Peer-Reviewed International Conferences and Workshops
[C1] Abhinav Mehrotra, Robert Hendley and Mirco Musolesi. PrefMiner: User’s Preferences for Intelligent Mobile Notification Management. In Proceedings of the 2016 International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UbiComp’16). Heidelberg, Germany. September 2016. Best Paper Award.
[C2] Abhinav Mehrotra, Robert Hendley and Mirco Musolesi. Towards Multi-model Anticipatory Monitoring of Depressive States through the Analysis of Human-Smartphone Interaction. In Proceedings of 1st ACM Mental Health: Sensing and Intervention Workshop. Colocated with ACM UbiComp’16. Heidelberg, Germany. September 2016.
[C3] Abhinav Mehrotra, Veljko Pejovic, Jo Vermeulen, Robert Hendley and Mirco Musolesi. My Phone and Me: Understanding People’s Receptivity to Mobile Notifications. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI’16). San Jose, California, USA. May 2016.
[C4] Desislava Hristova, Matthew J. Williams, Mirco Musolesi, Pietro Panzarasa and Cecilia Mascolo. Measuring Urban Social Diversity Using Interconnected Geo-Social Networks. In Proceedings of the 25th World Wide Web Conference (WWW’16). Montreal, Canada. April 2016.
[C5] Giovanni Quattrone, Davide Proserpio, Daniele Quercia, Licia Capra and Mirco Musolesi. Who Benefits from the “Sharing Economy” of Airbnb? In Proceedings of 25th World Wide Web (WWW’16). Montreal, Canada. April 2016.
[C6] Luca Canzian and Mirco Musolesi. Trajectories of Depression: Unobstrusive Monitoring of Depressive States by means of Smartphone Mobility Traces Analysis. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UbiComp’15). Osaka. Japan. September 2015.
[C7] Abhinav Mehrotra, Mirco Musolesi, Robert Hendley and Veljko Pejovic. Designing Content-driven Intelligent Notification Mechanisms for Mobile Applications. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UbiComp’15). Osaka. Japan. September 2015.
[C8] Abhinav Mehrotra, Jo Vermeulen, Veljko Pejovic and Mirco Musolesi. Ask, Don’t Interrupt: The Case for Interruptibility-Aware Mobile Experience Sampling. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Mo bile Systems for Computational Social Science (ACM MCSS’15). Colocated with ACM UbiComp’15. Osaka, Japan. September 2015.
[C9] Veljko Pejovic, Abhinav Mehrotra and Mirco Musolesi. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Intelligent Attention Management on Mobile Devices. Colocated with ACM MobileHCI’15. Copenhagen, Denmark. August 2015.
[C10] Luca Rossi, Matthew Williams, Christopher Stich and Mirco Musolesi. Privacy and the City: User Identification and Location Semantics in Location-Based Social Networks. In Proceedings of 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM’15). Oxford, United Kingdom. May 2015.
[C11] Luca Rossi, Mirco Musolesi and Andrea Torsello. On th k-Anonymization of Time-varying and Multi-layer Social Graphs. In Proceedings of the 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM’15). Oxford, United Kingdom. May 2015.
[C12] Abhinav Mehrotra, Veljko Pejovic and Mirco Musolesi. SenSocial: A Middleware for Integrating Online Social Networks and Mobile Sensing Data Streams. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2014). Bordeaux, France. December 2014.
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[C13] Luca Rossi and Mirco Musolesi. It’s the Way you Check-in: Identifying Users in Location-Based Social Networks. In Proceedings of 2nd ACM International Conference on Online Social Networks (ACM COSN’14). Dublin, Ireland. October 2014.
[C14] Veljko Pejovic and Mirco Musolesi. InterruptMe: Designing Intelligent Prompting Mechanisms for Pervasive Applications. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UbiComp’14). Seattle, WA, USA. September 2014. Honorable Mention Award.
[C15] Veljko Pejovic and Mirco Musolesi. Anticipatory Mobile Computing for Behaviour Change Interventions. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science (ACM MCSS’14). Colocated with ACM UbiComp’14. Seattle, WA, USA. September 2014.
[C16] Kira Kowalska, Paul Longley and Mirco Musolesi. Ethnic Structure in Global Naming Networks. In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2014) – Extended Abstracts. Vienna, Austria. September 2014.
[C17] Muhammad Adnan, Antonio Lima, Luca Rossi, Suresh Veluru, Paul Longley, Mirco Musolesi, and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security Information and Networks. Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. September 2014. ACM Press.
[C18] Antonio Lima, Luca Rossi and Mirco Musolesi. Coding Together at Scale: GitHub as a Collaborative Social Network. In Proceedings of the 8th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’14). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. June 2014.
[C19] Desislava Hristova, Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. Keep Your Friends Close and Your Facebook Friends Closer: A Multiplex Network Approach to the Analysis of Offline and Online Social Ties. In Proceedings of the 8th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’14). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. June 2014.
[C20] Thiago Silva, Pedro Vaz De Melo, Jussara Almeida, Mirco Musolesi and Antonio Loureiro. You are What you Eat (and Drink): Identifying Cultural Boundaries by Analyzing Food and Drink Habits in Foursquare. In Proceedings of the 8th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM’14). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. June 2014.
[C21] Gian Pietro Picco, Christine Julien, Amy L. Murphy, Mirco Musolesi and Gruia-Catalin Roman. Software Engineering for Mobility: Reflecting on the Past, Peering into the Future. In Proceedings of the 36th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’14). Future of Software Engineering Track. Hyderabad, India. June 2014.
[C22] Antonio Lima, Manlio De Domenico, Veljko Pejovic and Mirco Musolesi. Exploiting Cellular Data for Disease Containment and Information Campaigns Strategies in Country-wide Epidemics. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets (NetMob’13). Boston, Massachusetts, USA. May 2013. Winner of the Orange Data for Development Challenge Best Overall Prize.
[C23] Antonio Lima and Mirco Musolesi. The Rebirth of Locality: Information, People and Places in a Connected World. Proceedings of the 1st Geographic Human Computer Interaction Workshop (GeoHCI’13). Colocated with ACM CHI’13. Paris, France. April 2013. ACM Press.
[C24] Antonio Lima and Mirco Musolesi. Spatial Dissemination Metrics for Location-based Social Networks. Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2012). Colocated with ACM UbiComp 2012. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Pages 972-979. September 2012. ACM Press.
[C25] Qiang Huang, Thomas White, Guanbo Jia, Mirco Musolesi, Nil Turan, Ke Tang, Shan He, John K. Heath and Xin Yao. Community Detection Using Cooperative Co-evolutionary Differential Evolution. In
7 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XII). Taormina, Italy. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7492. Pages 235-244. September 2012. Springer.
[C26] Manlio De Domenico, Antonio Lima and Mirco Musolesi. Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions. Proceedings of Nokia Mobile Data Challenge Workshop. Colocated with Pervasive 2012. Newcastle, United Kingdom. June 2012. Winning Entry of the Nokia Mobile Data Open Challenge.
[C27] John Tang, Hyoungshick Kim, Cecilia Mascolo and Mirco Musolesi. STOP: Socio-Temporal Opportunistic Patching of Short Range Mobile Malware. In Proceedings of 13th IEEE Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM’12). San Francisco, California, USA. Pages 1-9. June 2012. IEEE Press.
[C28] Guanbo Jia, Zixing Cai, Mirco Musolesi, Yong Wang, Dan Tennant, Ralf Weber, John Heath and Shan He. Community Detection in Social and Biological Networks using Differential Evolution. In Proceedings of the 6th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION 6). Paris, France. Pages 71-85. January 2012. Springer.
[C29] Kiran K. Rachuri, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Peter J. Rentfrow. SociableSense: Exploring the Trade-offs of Adaptive Sampling and Computation Offloading for Social Sensing. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'11). Las Vegas, USA. Pages 73-84. September 2011. ACM Press.
[C30] Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Vito Latora and Andrew T. Campbell. NextPlace: A Spatio-temporal Prediction Framework for Pervasive Systems. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive'11). San Francisco, California, USA. Pages 152- 169. June 2011.
[C31] John Tang, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Vito Latora. Exploiting Temporal Complex Network Metrics in Mobile Malware Containment. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM'11). Lucca, Italy. Pages 1-9. June 2011.
[C32] Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Jon Crowcroft. Track Globally, Deliver Locally: Improving Content Delivery Networks by Tracking Geographic Social Cascades. In Proceedings of the 20th World Wide Web Conference (WWW'11). Hyderabad, India. Pages 457-466. March 2011.
[C33] Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Peter J. Rentfrow, Chris Longworth and Andrius Aucinas. EmotionSense: A Mobile Phones based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'10). Copenhagen, Denmark. Pages 281-290. September 2010. ACM Press.
[C34] Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. Energy Accuracy Trade-offs in Querying Sensor Data for Continuous Sensing Mobile Systems. In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Mobile Context Awareness: Capabilities, Challenges and Applications. Colocated with the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'10). Copenhagen, Denmark.
[C35] Gahng-Seop Ahn, Mirco Musolesi, Hong Lu, Reza Olfati-Saber and Andrew T. Campbell. MetroTrack: Predictive Tracking of Mobile Events using Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'10). Santa Barbara, California, USA. Pages 230-243. June 2010.
[C36] Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Vito Latora. Distance Matters: Geo-social Metrics for Online Social Networks. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN‘10). Colocated with USENIX’10. Boston, MA, USA. Pages 1-8. June 2010.
[C37] Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Vito Latora. On Nonstationarity of Human Contact Traces. In Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practioners (SIMPLEX’10). Colocated with IEEE ICDCS’10. Genoa, Italy. June 2010. IEEE Press.
8 [C38] Mirco Musolesi, Mattia Piraccini, Kristof Fodor, Antonio Corradi and Andrew T. Campbell. Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive'10). Helsinki, Finland. May 2010. Pages 355-372. LCNS 6030. Springer.
[C39] John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Vito Latora and Vincenzo Nicosia. Analysing Information Flows and Key Mediators through Temporal Centrality Metrics. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS'10). Colocated with ACM SIGOPS EuroSys'10. Paris, France. April 2010. ACM Press.
[C40] Anastasios Noulas, Mirco Musolesi, Massimiliano Pontil and Cecilia Mascolo. Inferring Interests from Mobility and Social Interactions. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing Networks and Learning with Graphs. Colocated with NIPS'09. Whistler, Canada. December 2009.
[C41] John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora. Temporal Distance Metrics for Social Network Analysis. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'09). Colocated with ACM SIGCOMM'09. Barcelona, Spain. Pages 31-36. August 2009. ACM Press.
[C42] Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Kristof Fodor, Ronald A. Peterson, Hong Lu, Mirco Musolesi, Shane B. Eisenman, Xiao Zheng and Andrew T. Campbell. Sensing Meets Social Networks: The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the CenceMe Application. In Proceedings of 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Sensor Systems (SenSys’08). Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Pages 337-350. November 2008. ACM Press.
[C43] Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. A Framework for Multi-region Delay Tolerant Networking. In Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Wireless Networks and Systems for Developing Regions (WiNS- DR'08). Colocated with ACM MobiCom'08. San Francisco, California, USA. Pages 37-42. September 2008. ACM Press.
[C44] Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo, Shane Eisenman, Nicholas T. Lane, Tanzeem Choudhury and Andrew T. Campbell. The Second Life of a Sensor: Integrating Real-world Experience in Virtual Worlds using Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets’08). Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. June 2008. ACM Press.
[C45] Mirco Musolesi, Pan Hui, Cecilia Mascolo and Jon Crowcroft. Writing on the Clean Slate: Implementing a Socially-Aware Protocol in Haggle. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications. Newport Beach, CA, USA. Pages 1-6. June 2008. IEEE Press.
[C46] Paolo Costa, Daniela Gavidia, Boris Koldehofe, Hugo Miranda, Mirco Musolesi and Oriana Riva. When Cars Starts Gossiping. In Proceedings of the ACM Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications Workshop (MiNEMA’08). Colocated with ACM SIGOPS EuroSys’08. Glasgow, United Kingdom. April 2008. Pages 1-4. ACM Press.
[C47] Nicholas T. Lane, Shane Eisenman, Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo and Andrew T. Campbell. Urban Sensing Systems: Opportunistic or Participatory? In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOBILE HotMobile 2008. Napa Valley, CA, USA. Pages 11-16. February 2008. ACM Press.
[C48] Bence Pasztor, Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. Opportunistic Mobile Sensor Data Collection with SCAR. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'07). Pisa, Italy. October 2007. Pages 1-12. IEEE Press.
[C49] Roberta Calegari, Mirco Musolesi, Franco Raimondi and Cecilia Mascolo. CTG: A Connectivity Trace Generator for Testing the Performance of Opportunistic Mobile Systems. In Proceedings of the European Software Engineering Conference and the International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC’07/FSE’07). Dubrovnik, Croatia. Pages 415-424. September 2007. ACM Press.
[C50] Holger Kampffmeyer, Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. EPITELLA: Improving the Gnutella Search Algorithm through Epidemic Spreading Models for Complex Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Dependable Support in Self-Organising Networks (DASSON'07). Colocated with 37th Annual
9 IEEE/IFIP Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. Edinburgh, United Kingdom. June 2007. IEEE Press.
[C51] Giuseppe Sollazzo, Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. TACO-DTN: A Time-aware Content-based Dissemination System for Delay-Tolerant Networks. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp 2007). Colocated with MobiSys’07. Pages 83-90. Puerto Rico, USA. June 2007. ACM Press.
[C52] Clovis Chapman, Mirco Musolesi, Wolfgang Emmerich and Cecilia Mascolo. Predictive Resource Scheduling in Computational Grids. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'07). Long Beach, California. Pages 1-10. March 2007. IEEE Press.
[C53] Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. Controlled Epidemic-style Dissemination Middleware for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGMOBILE/IEEE Annual Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MOBIQUITOUS 2006). July 2006. Pages 1-9. San Jose, California. IEEE Press.
[C54] Cecilia Mascolo and Mirco Musolesi. SCAR: Context-aware Adaptive Routing in Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the Delay Tolerant Networks Symposium. ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2006). Vancouver, Canada. Pages 533- 538. July 2006. ACM Press.
[C55] Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. Evaluating Context Information Predictability for Autonomic Communication. In Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Computing (ACC’06). Niagara Falls, NY. Pages 495-499. June 2006. IEEE Press.
[C56] Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. A Community Based Mobility Model for Ad Hoc Network Research. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: from theory to reality (REALMAN’06). Colocated with MobiHoc'06. Florence, Italy. Pages 31-38. May 2006. ACM Press.
[C57] Licia Capra and Mirco Musolesi. Autonomic Trust Prediction for Pervasive Systems. In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems 2006 (TACS'06). Vienna, Austria. Pages 481- 488. April 2006. IEEE Press.
[C58] Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo. Spatio-Temporal Communication Primitives for Delay Tolerant Systems. In Proceedings of 3th MiNEMA Workshop. Leuven, Belgium. February 2006.
[C59] Mirco Musolesi, Stephen Hailes and Cecilia Mascolo. Adaptive Routing for Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2005). Taormina, Italy. Pages 183-189. June 2005. IEEE Press.
[C60] Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Stephen Hailes. Adapting Asynchronous Messaging Middleware to Ad Hoc Networking. In Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 2004). Co-located with Middleware 2004. Toronto, Canada. Pages 121-126. October 2004. ACM Press.
[C61] Mirco Musolesi. Designing a Context-aware Middleware for Asynchronous Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Environments. In Proceedings of the 1st International Middleware Doctoral Symposium 2004 (MDS 2004). Toronto, Canada. Pages 304-308. October 2004. ACM Press.
[C62] Mirco Musolesi, Stephen Hailes and Cecilia Mascolo. An Ad Hoc Mobility Model Founded on Social Network Theory. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2004). Venezia, Italy. Pages 20-24. October 2004. ACM Press.
10 Demo Papers
[D1] Andrew T. Campbell, Shane B. Eisenman, Kristof Fodor, Nicholas D. Lane, Hong Lu, Emiliano Miluzzo, Mirco Musolesi, Ronald A. Peterson and Xiao Zheng. CenceMe: Injecting Sensing Presence into Social Network Applications using Mobile Phones (Demo Abstract). In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOBILE MobiHoc’08. Hong Kong. S.A.R. China. May 2008. ACM Press.
[D2] Andrew T. Campbell, Shane B. Eisenman, Kristof Fodor, Nicholas D. Lane, Hong Lu, Emiliano Miluzzo, Mirco Musolesi, Ronald A. Peterson and Xiao Zheng. CenceMe: Injecting Sensing Presence into Social Network Applications using Mobile Phones (Demo Abstract). In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOBILE HotMobile’08. Napa Valley, CA, USA. February 2008. ACM Press.
[D3] Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Bence Pastzor. Demo Abstract: Data Collection in Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks using SCAR. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2006). Boulder, CO, USA. November 2006. Pages 343–344. ACM Press.
Papers in National Conferences and Workshops
[N1] Mirco Musolesi, Stephen Hailes and Cecilia Mascolo. Social Networks Based Ad Hoc Mobility Models. In Proceedings of the 3rd UK-Ubinet Workshop. Bath, United Kingdom. February 2005.
Press Coverage
Our paper on robustness of spatio-temporal networks, including the London transportation network, has been covered by the Evening Standard (June 2016).
Our paper on the diffusion of Airbnb in London has been covered in the Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Daily Mail, ITV News, Le Figaro, The Smithsonian and Wired (May 2016).
Our paper on data mining techniques for the analysis of cultural boundaries in cities using Foursquare data was covered by MIT Technology Review (April 2014).
Our work on the use of cellular data for epidemic containment strategies was covered by the Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Mobile World Live (May-July 2013).
Our work on modelling the spreading of rumours about the discovery of the Higgs boson has been covered by the New Scientist (January 2013).
Our work on mobility prediction for the Nokia Mobile Data Open Challenge was covered by the international press including MIT Technology Review, Wired, Slate, Forbes, BBC News, Discovery Channel, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph (July/August 2012).
The EmotionSense project was covered by The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, BBC News and Computer World (September-December 2010).
Our work on strategies for containment of worm propagation based on temporal networks was covered by MIT Technology Review (December 2010).
Keynotes, Invited Talks and Lectures
20-23 September 2016 Invited Lecturer at the International PhD Summer School “Data Gathering and Processing - From Cyberspace to Physical World (and Networks)". Como, Milan.
13 September 2016 Keynote Speaker for the “Smarticipation – Intelligent Personal Guidance of Human Behavior Utilizing Anticipatory Models” Workshop at ACM UbiComp 2016. Title: Towards Mobile Anticipatory Computing: Challenges and Opportunities.
11 6 September 2016 Seminar at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Title: From Mobile Phone Monitoring of Depressive States using GPS Analysis to Data-Driven Behavior Change Interventions.
18-22 July 2016 Invited Lecturer at the International School on Web Science and Technology. Bilbao, Spain.
8 July 2016 Keynote Speaker at the 5th International Symposium ``From Data to Models and Back” (DataMod 2016). Vienna, Austria. Title: Big (and Small) Data for Social Good.
22 April 2016 Invited Speaker at the Alan Turing Institute Privacy Summit at the British Library. Title: Privacy and the City: Identity and Identification in the Smartphone Era.
20 April 2016 Seminar at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Title: Spatio-temporal Networks: Reachability, Centrality and Robustness. Host: Prof. Jane Hillston and Dr. Rik Sarkar.
14 March 2016 Invited Speaker at the Human Factors in Cybersecurity Workshop at the University of Surrey. Title: Privacy and the City: Identity and Identification in the Smartphone Era.
2 February 2016 Seminar at the Centre for Complexity Science at Imperial College London. Title: Spatio-temporal Networks: Reachability, Centrality and Robustness. Host: Prof. Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen.
18-22 January 2016 Invited Talk at the Workshop on Big Data and Social Media at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. Title: Spatio-temporal Complex Networks: Reachability, Centrality and Robustness.
20 October 2015 Keynote Speaker at the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (IEEE DSAA 2015) in Paris, France. Title: Mining Big (and Small) Data for Social Good.
8 September 2015 Keynote Speaker at the 4th ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science, co-located with ACM UbiComp 2015 in Osaka, Japan. Title: Mining Big (and Small) Data for Social Good.
16 June 2015 Invited Talk at the “Data for Policy” Conference at the University of Cambridge. Title: Real-time Policy-making: Merging New and Old Big Data.
11 June 2015 Departmental Seminar at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick Title: Mining Big (and Small) Mobile data: Challenges and Opportunities.
16 April 2015 Departmental Seminar at the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol. Title: (Big) Mobile Data Mining for Social Good in Healthcare.
14 April 2015 Departmental Seminar at the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, City University London. Title: Mining Big (and Small) Mobile data: Challenges and Opportunities.
29 October 2014 Seminar at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College. Title: Towards Anticipatory Mobile Computing: Challenges and Opportunities.
11 August 2014 Seminar at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland. Title: Towards Anticipatory Mobile Computing: Challenges and Opportunities.
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29 July 2014 Invited Talk for the Ignite Speaker Series at Samsung Research Laboratories America, San Jose, California, USA. Title: Towards Anticipatory Mobile Computing: Challenges and Opportunities.
24 July 2014: Invited Talk at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Mountain View, California, USA. Title: Users and Cities Profiling from Social Media.
19 July 2014: Invited Speaker at the Second Scientific Meeting on Complex Networks and Function at Bertinoro, Italy. Title: Analysing Real-world Networks using a Multiplex Approach.
11 June 2014 Invited Talk at the 1st European Conference on Computational Social Science at the University of Warwick. Title: Mining Big (and Small) Data.
14 February 2014 Invited Lecture at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Title: Social and Technological Network Analysis – Epidemics Spreading.
21 January 2014 Invited Talk for the Cambridge Networks Network Seminar Series at King’s College, University of Cambridge. Title: Understanding and Exploiting Social and Mobility Information from Big Mobile Data
28 November 2013 Invited Talk at the Workshop on Big Data and Social Media at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. Title: Mining Big (and Small) Data.
20 November 2013 Seminar at the Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR) at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Title: Mining (and Understanding) Big Mobile Data.
19 November 2013 Seminar at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA. Title: Mining Big (and Small) Big Mobile Data. Host: Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland.
18 November 2013 Seminar at the Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. Title: Mining (and Understanding) Big Mobile Data.
23 October 2013 Invited Talk at the Location and Beyond 2013 event at the British Library. Title: The Possibilities of Prediction.
16 October 2013 Departmental Seminar at the Department of Computer Science, University of York. Title: Understanding and Mining Big (and Small) Data. Host: Prof. Edwin Hancock.
16 August 2013 Seminar at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Title: Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions. Host: Dr. Petteri Nurmi.
7 August 2013 Seminar at the Smarter Cities Technologies Center, IBM Research Ireland. Title: Anticipatory Mobile Computing: Sensing, Modelling and Predicting Human Behaviour with Mobile Phones.
24 July 2013 Invited Lecture at the 46th Summer School on Social Science Analysis at the University of Essex.
23 May 2013 Departmental Seminar at the School of Computer Science, University of Glasgow. Title: Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions.
21 May 2013: Invited Talk at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
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29 April 2013: Invited Talk at the University of Trento, Italy. Title: Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions. Host: Prof. Gian Pietro Picco.
23-24 April 2013 Invited Speaker at the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Conference on Tracing Networks: Communicating Knowledge in Antiquity and the Digital Age.
17 April 2013 Seminar at the Department of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Title: Sensing, Understanding and Modelling Human Behaviour with Mobile Phones
15 April 2013 Departmental Colloquium at the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews. Title: Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions.
13 December 2012 Keynote Speaker at the 3rd IEEE International NESEA Conference (NESEA‘12) in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
5 December 2012 Invited Talk at the 4 Minute Warning – Your Chance to Think the Unthinkable conference in London. Title: Anticipatory Mobile Computing.
4 December 2012 Invited Talk at the Sensor and Mobile Devices KTN Event at the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Title: Mobile Sensing at Scale: Sensing, Understanding and Modelling People using Mobile Phones.
27 November 2012 Departmental seminar at the Department of Geography, University College London. Title: Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions. Host: Prof. Paul Longley.
14-19 October 2012 Invited Participant at the Workshop on "Synergic Investigations on Network Science“ in Bertinoro, Italy. Organisers: Prof. Paolo Boldi, Prof. Matthew Jackson, Prof. Alessandro Panconesi and Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan.
11-15 June 2012 Invited Speaker for the Summer School on Inference and Dynamics in Interaction at the University of Glasgow.
28-29 May 2012 Invited Speaker at the Scientific Meeting on Complex Networks and Function organised by the Royal Society.
26 April 2012 Seminar at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. Title: Sensing, Understanding and Modelling People using Mobile Phones.
2 March 2012 Talk at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London. Title: Temporal Dynamics of Social and Technological Networks.
15 January 2012 Departmental Seminar at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex. Title: Temporal Dynamics of Social and Technological Networks.
7 September 2011 Seminar at Culture Lab, University of Newcastle. Title: Sensing, Understanding and Modelling People using Mobile Phones.
29 June 2011 Invited speaker at the 24th Biennal Conference on Numerical Analysis at the University of Strathclyde (Network Science Mini-symposium). Title: Temporal Graphs and Robustness.
7 May 2011 Departmental Seminar at the Department of Computing/IDEAS Research Centre, Robert Gordon University.
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4 May 2011 Departmental Colloquium at the Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen. Title: Temporal Graphs for Social and Technological Networks. Host: Dr. Matthew Collinson.
1 April 2011 Seminar at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Title: Some Ideas about the Application of Stochastic Modelling Techniques to Temporal and Spatial Graphs. Host: Prof. Jane Hillston.
27-28 January 2011 Invited Participant at the NSF-sponsored Workshop on "Pervasive Computing at Scale", Seattle, WA, USA.
15 October 2010 Seminar at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Stirling. Title: Temporal Graphs for Social and Technological Network Analysis. Host: Dr. Jozsef Farkas.
6-9 October 2010 Invited Partecipant at the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Impact of Human Mobility on Communications: Measurement, Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation" – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany. Organisers: Prof. Kevin Almeroth, Prof. Gunnar Karlsson, Dr. Cecilia Mascolo and Prof. Jörg Ott.
12-15 September 2010 Invited Participant at the Dagstuhl Seminar on "User-centric Networking" – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany. Organisers: Prof. Jon Crowcroft, Dr. James Kempf, Prof. Paulo Jorge Mendes and Prof. Rute Sofia.
17 August 2010 Invited Speaker at the Ideas Workshop on Social Media at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Organiser: Prof. Ewan Klein.
1 July 2010 Seminar at NEC Laboratories Europe, Heidelberg, Germany. Title: Temporal Graphs for Social and Technological Networks Analysis. Host: Dr. Saverio Niccolini.
4 June 2010 Lecture for the "Deutsche Telekom Networking Lecture Series" at the Technical University of Berlin. Title: Sensing, Understanding, Modelling People using Mobile Phones. Host: Dr. Pan Hui.
11 February 2010 Seminar at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento. Title: Sensing, Understanding, Modelling People using Mobile Phones. Host: Prof. Gian Pietro Picco.
31 January-5 February 2010 Invited Participant at the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Network Protocols" – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany. Organisers: Dr. Timothy G. Griffin, Dr. Bengt Jonsson, Prof. Jörg Kreiker and Prof. Marta Kwiatkowska.
14 January 2010 Seminar at the Inference Group Seminar Series, University of Glasgow. Title: Inferring Interests from Mobility and Social Interactions. Host: Prof. Mark Girolami.
23-25 March 2009 Invited Speaker at the European Science Foundation MiNEMA Winter School 2009, Göteborg, Sweden. Title of the Lecture: Mobility Models for Systems Evaluation.
8-11 February 2009 Invited Participant at the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Delay and Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN)" at the Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany. Organisers: Dr. Kevin Fall, Dr. Cecilia Mascolo, Prof. Jörg Ott and Prof. Lars Wolf.
15 25 July 2008 Seminar at the Senseable Laboratory, MIT, MA, USA. Title: Sensing, Representing and Modeling People Behavior using Mobile Technologies. Host: Prof. Carlo Ratti.
1 June 2007 Seminar at the Department of Computer Science, ETHZ, Switzerland. Title: Context-aware Routing for Delay Tolerant Mobile Ad Networking. Hosts: Prof. Timothy Roscoe and Prof. Gustavo Alonso.
8 November 2006 Seminar at the Laboratory for Computer Communications, EPFL, Switzerland. Title: Context-aware Routing for Delay Tolerant Mobile Ad Networking. Host: Prof. Jean-Yves Le Boudec.
29 June 2006 Seminar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Buffalo, NY, USA. Title: Context-aware Adaptive Routing for Delay Tolerant Networking. Host: Prof. Chunming Qiao.
18 January 2005 Seminar at the Intel Research Lab Cambridge, United Kingdom. Title: Designing Context-Aware Routing Protocols for Delay Tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Host: Dr. Christophe Diot.
17 May 2005 Seminar at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy. Title: Probabilistic Communication Primitives Based on Models of Epidemics Spreading in Networks. Host: Prof. Alberto Montresor.
12 December 2004 Seminar at the BT Research Lab Ipswich, United Kingdom. Title: Exploiting Complex Networks Theory in Middleware Systems Design. Host: Dr. Maziar Nekovee.
Current Members of My Research Group
PhD Students (Primary Supervisor)
Abhinav Mehotra (Start date: January 2014-in progress). First supervisor. Second supervisor: Robert Hendley. Thesis working title: “A Platform for Anticipatory Mobile Sensing at Scale”.
Beatrice Perez (Start date: October 2015-in progress). First supervisor. Second supervisor: Gianluca Stringhini. Thesis working title: “Data Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing”.
Theofania Kleio Tsapeli (Start date: October 2013-in progress). First Supervisor. Thesis working title: "Mining Massive Data Streams in Real-time”.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Giovanni Quattrone (EPSRC-funded MACACO Project).
Past Members of My Research Group
Graduated PhD students (as Primary Supervisor)
Antonio Lima (Thesis title: “Digital Traces of Human Mobility and Interaction: Models and Applications”. June 2016. Now Data Science Research Fellow at NESTA).
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Matthew Williams (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2014-2015 in the EU-funded LASAGNE Project, now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter).
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Luca Rossi (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2013-2015 in the EPSRC-funded Uncertainty of Identity Project, now Lecturer at Aston University, United Kingdom).
Gillian Sandstrom (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2015 in the EPSRC-funded Trajectory of Depression, now Lecturer at the University of Essex, United Kingdom).
Luca Canzian (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2014-15 in the EPSRC-funded Trajectory of Depression Project, now Radio Navigation Engineer at Quascom).
Veljko Pejovic (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2012-2014 involved in the EPSRC-funded UBhave Project, now Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia).
Manlio De Domenico (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2012-2013, involved in the EPSRC-funded Uncertainty of Identity Project, now Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Universitat Roviri et Virgili, Tarragona, Spain).
Visiting PhD Students
Ella Peltonen (Visiting PhD student from the University of Helsinki, Finland in Spring-Summer 2016).
Christos Perentis (Visiting PhD student from University of Trento in Autumn-Winter 2015, now back in Italy for the completion of his PhD).
Cristina Segalin (Visiting PhD student from the University of Verona in Autumn-Winter 2014, now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, USA).
Paul Mougel (Visiting student from INSA Lyon, now back in France for the completion of his Master degree).
Thiago Silva (Visiting Ph.D. student from the Universidada General de Minas Gerais, Brazil, now Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Technology, Curitiba, Brazil).
Internees
Victor Darvariu (Undergraduate Summer Internee in Summer 2014, now finishing his degree in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham).
James Klee (Undergraduate Summer Internee in Summer 2014, now finishing his degree in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham).
Demet Turan (Master Internee in Autumn 2013, now Software Developer at Turkish Petroleum).
Funding Panel Activities
Proposal Reviewer for the European Research Council (Consolidator Grants).
Member of the Associate Peer Review College of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Proposal Reviewer for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Proposal Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Proposal Reviewer for the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), Switzerland.
Proposal Reviewer for the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.
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Proposal Reviewer for the Icelandic Research Fund.
Proposal Reviewer for Technology Foundation STW, The Netherlands.
Proposal Reviewer for the Austrian Science Fund.
Proposal Reviewer for the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
Proposal Reviewer for the ETH Zurich Research Commission for the funding of research projects.
International and National Research Advisory Activities
International
External Expert (2016) for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), France for the approval of a new Research Unit.
External Expert (2015) for the appointment of an Associate Professor at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, Denmark.
Research Advisor (Ongoing) for the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID) in Lisbon, Portugal.
National
Member of the Panel for the Junior Fellowships (2016) at the Alan Turing Institute.
Member of the Advisory Board (2015-now) of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science and Progress at the University of Warwick.
Member of the Advisory Board (2015-now) of the Urban Big Data Centre, an ESRC Data Investment involving the University of Glasgow, University of Bristol, the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Reading, the University of Sheffield and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Policy Activities
Invited participant of the Foresight Project meeting on “Future of Cities: The Future of Healthcare Provision” organised by the Government Office for Science (September 2015).
Scholarly Service
Program Committee Co-Chair of the 11th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2017).
Program Committee Co-Chair of the 8th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (Mobicase 2016).
Program Co-Chair of the 1st and 2nd edition of the International ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science collocated with MobySys’12 and UbiComp’13 respectively.
Co-organiser of the EPSRC funded Workshop on Social Networks and Communications at Queen Mary, University London in February 2012.
Co-organiser of the Dagstuhl Seminar “Analysis of Dynamic Social and Technological Networks“ in November 2011 at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany.
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Program Co-Chair of 3nd IEEE Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (IEEE SIMPLEX’11).
Workshop Chair of Pervasive’11.
Program Co-Chair of the First ACM SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Mobility Models for Networking Research (MobilityModels’08) 19collocated with MobiHoc’08.
Program Committee Member of the following scientific events:
• 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM 2017 – Senior Programme Committee Member) • 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017) – Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing Track • 10th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (ACM WSDM 2017) • 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2017) • 15th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (IEEE PerCom 2017) • 17th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference (ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2016) • 2016 ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UbiComp 2016) • 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM 2016 – Senior Program Committee Member) • 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016) – Mobility Track • 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2016) • 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering (ACM/IEEE MOBILESoft 2016) • 10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2016) • 36th Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2016) – Social Networks and Crowdsourcing Track • 8th ACM International Web Science Conference (ACM WebSci 2016) • 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (ACM MobiSys 2016) (External Review Committee Member) • 14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom 2016) - Work in Progress Session • 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2016) • International Conference on Network Science 2016 (NetSci X 2016) • Data for Policy 2016 • 10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2016) • 1st ACM Workshop on Intelligent Personal Guidance of Human Behavior Utilizing Anticipatory Models at ACM UbiComp 2016. • 11th ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2016) at ACM MobiCom 2016 • 2nd ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications for Civilian Use (ACM DroNet 2016) at ACM MobiSys 2016 • 1st ACM Workshop on Mobile Data (ACM MobiData 2016) at ACM MobiSys 2016 • 3rd ACM Workshop on Physical Analytics (ACM WPA 2016) at ACM MobiSys 2016 • 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UbiComp 2015) • International Conference on Network Science 2016 (NetSci X 2016) • 9th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’15)
19 • 16th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference (Middleware’15) • 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015) – Social Networks and Graph Analysis Track • 1st ACM Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems and Applications for Civilian Use (ACM DroNet’15) • 4th International Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets (NetMob’15) • 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015) • 1st Workshop on Data Mining and Smart Cities Applications (DAMASCA 2015) colocated with ICDE 2015 • 34th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2015) • 3rd IEEE International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Application (PerMoby 2015) at IEEE PerCom 2015 • 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Healthcare 2015) • 2nd ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (ACM COSN’14) • 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (ACM/IEEE Mobiquitous 2014) • 1st ACM/IEEE International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (ACM/IEEE Urb-IoT 2014) • 6th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE 2014) • 8th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2014) • ACM Web Science 2014 Conference (ACM WebSci 2014) • 1st Workshop on Interaction and Social Media (DYAD 2014) at the 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2014) • 3rd ACM Workshop on Recent Advances in Behavior Prediction and Pro-active Pervasive Computing (AwareCast 2014) at ACM UbiComp’14 • 6th ACM HotPlanet Workshop at MASS 2014 • 3rd ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science at ACM UbiComp’14 • 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2014) • 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014) • 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2014) • 34th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2014) – Social Networks, Crowdsourcing and P2P Track • 6th IEEE Conference on Social Computing (IEEE SocialCom 2014) • 12th IEEE International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (IEEE NetSciCom’14) at IEEE INFOCOM 2014 • 12th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom 2014) – Work in Progress Track • 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2014) • 6th IEEE Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX 2014) at WWW 2014 • 6th IEEE International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (IEEE NetSciCom’14) at IEEE INFOCOM 2014 • 23rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2014) – Wireless LAN, Ad Hoc, Mesh Networks Track • 2nd IEEE International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility on Pervasive Systems and Applications (PerMoby 2014) • 29th Annual ACM Symposium 5th International Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA 2013) at Pervasive 2013 • 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (Mobiquitous 2013) • 4th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2013) • 2nd International Workshop on Citizen Sensor Networks (CitSen’13) at ECCS’13
20 • 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Sensing at IPSN’13 • 5th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement (HotPlanet 2013) collocated with ACM SIGCOMM 2013 • 11th IEEE Pervasive and Communications Conference – Work in Progress Track (PerCom 2013) • 5th Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX 2012) at WWW 2013 • 7th IEEE Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2013) • 2nd International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications (PerMoby 2013) at Percom 2013 • 1st IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Cloud and Social Computing at IEEE ICDCS 2013 • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2013) • IEEE Wireless Communications Symposium at GlobeCom 2013 • 22nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2013 - Wireless LAN and Ad Hoc Mesh Networks Track) • 4th International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-CUBE 2013) • 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2013) • 10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2012) • 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2012) • 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM’11) • 1st International Workshop on Mobile Sensing: from Smartphones and Wearables to Big Data at ACM/IEEE IPSN'12 and CPSWeek'12 • 4th International Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA 2012) at Pervasive 2012 • 1st International Workshop on Recent Advances in Behavior Prediction and Pro-active Pervasive Computing at Pervasive 2012 • 1st When the City Meets the Citizens Workshop (WCMCW 2012) at ICWSM 2012 • 3rd ACM International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networks (ACM MobiOpp 2012) • 1st IEEE International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications (PerMoby 2012) at IEEE PerCom 2012 • 4th Annual Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX 2012) at WWW 2012 • 10th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2012) - Work in Progress Session • IEEE International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility in Pervasive Systems and Applications (PerMoby 2012) at IEEE Percom 2012 • 3rd IEEE Workshop on User-Centric Networking (U-NET 2012) at IEEE ICC 2012 • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) • 21th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications Networks (ICCCN 2012) • 23rd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2012) • 14th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2012) - Social Network Track • 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM’11) • 10th ACM International Workshop on Middleware, Tools, Services and Run-time Support for Networked Embedded Systems (MidSens'11) at Middleware'11 • 6th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (Bionetics 2011) - Track on Bio-Inspired Approaches to Advanced Computing and Communication • 3rd Workshop on Context-Systems Design, Evaluation and Optimisation (CoSDEO 2011) at Mobiquitous 2011 • 1st Workshop on Mobile Sensing: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions at ACM UbiComp'11 • 5th ACM International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems (CASEMANS'11) at ACM UbiComp'11
21 • 3rd IEEE Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom'11) • IEEE Workshop on Complex Communication Networks (CCNet 2011) at IEEE GlobeCom'11 • 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems - Mobile Web and Social Networks Track • 1st Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA 2011) at Pervasive'11 • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2011) • 22th International Conference on Databases and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011) • 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice (WSN'11) at IEEE/IFIP NTMS'11 • 9th ACM International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2010) • 5th ACM International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens'10) at ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware'10 • 5th ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS'10) at ACM MobiCom'10 • 1st IEEE BioSense 2010 Workshop: Networking and Environmental Sensing Meet Epidemiology and Biology at IEEE MASS’10 • 2nd IEEE Workshop on SCEnarios for Networking Evaluation Studies (SCENES’10) at IEEE MASS’10 • 2nd ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet Scale Measurement (HotPlanet 2010) at ACM MobiSys'10 • 1st International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET 2010) at the Cyber- Physical Systems Week 2010 (CPS'10) • 1st IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Mobile Service Oriented Systems (EMSOS 2010) at IEEE ICWS'10 and SCC'10 • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2010) • 2nd International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-Cube 2010) • 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010) • 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010) • 21th International Conference on Databases and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2010) • 3rd International Workshop on Sensor Networks at IEEE ICDCS'10 • 4th ACM International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens'09) at ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware'09 • 8th ACM International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2009) • 1st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics of Planet-scale Mobility Measurements (HotPlanet'09) at ACM MobiSys'09 • 1st International Workshop on Middleware for Sensing and Actuation Augmented Pervasive Systems (MSAPS'09) at IE'09 • 1st International Workshop on Emerging Internet Applications (WEIA'09) at IEEE IMSAA'09 • 1st International Workshop on Advanced Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WAASN'09) at IEEE MASS'09 • 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009) - Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks • 20th International Conference on Databases and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009) • 10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM 2009) • 1st IEEE International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless Networking (AWN 2009) at IEEE IWCMC 2009 • 2nd IEEE Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN'09) at IEEE ICCCN 2009 • 1st International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-Cube Conference 2009) • 69th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2009-Spring) • 1st ACM International Workshop on Scenarios for Network Evaluation Studies (SCENES 2009) at ACM SIMUTools 2009 • 69th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2009-Spring)
22 • 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2008-Fall) • 5th ACM Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-hoc Computing Workshop (MPAC’08) at Middleware 2008 • 3rd ACM Middleware for Sensor Networks Workshop (MidSens’08) at Middleware 2008 • 1st ACM Mobile Middleware Workshop (MobMid’08) at Middleware 2008 • 1st IEEE Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN’08) at IEEE ICCCN 2008 • 9th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM 2008) • International Workshop on Middleware for Network Eccentric & Mobile Applications (MiNEMA’08) at ACM EuroSys’08 • 1st Workshop on Ad Hoc Ambient Computing at Ad-hoc NOW 2008 • 2nd ACM Middleware for Sensor Networks Workshop (MidSens 2007) at Middleware 2007 • 50th International Global Telecommunications Conference (GlobeCom 2007) – Ad hoc and Sensors Networks Track • 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’07) • 1st ACM Middleware for Sensor Networks Workshop (MidSens 2006) at Middleware 2006 • IEEE International Conference on Communications 2006 (ICC 2006) - Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks Track • IST Mobile Summit 2006
Member of the Editorial Board of Computational Social Networks edited by Springer.
Member of the Recognized Reviewer Panel for IEEE Pervasive Computing.
Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine on “Mobile Crowd Sensing”.
Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies on “Social Networks and Ubiquitous Interactions”.
Guest Editor for two Special Issues of Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on “Human Behaviour in Ubiquitous Environments”.
Reviewer for the following journals:
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) • Nature Scientific Reports • Proceedings of the Royal Society A • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B • Royal Society Open Science • Network Science (Cambridge Universiy Press) • Journal of Complex Networks (Oxford University Press) • Communications of the ACM • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Distinguished Reviewer Award for the year 2012) • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing • IEEE Network • IEEE Communications Letters
23 • IEEE Distributed Systems Online • ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems • ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology • ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems • Environment and Planning B • Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing • Elsevier Computer Communications • Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks • Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software • Elsevier Information Software Technology Journal • Springer Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery • Springer EPJ Data Science • Wiley Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing • Wiley Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery • Wiley Policy&Internet • Wiley Transactions on GIS • The Computer Journal (British Computer Society/Oxford University Press) • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communication and Networking • Elsevier Physica A • Entropy
Examination of Research Students
External Examiner for the examinations of the following research students:
October 2016 Andrea Cuttone (Ph.D. in Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark).
August 2016 Mohammad Faizuddin Md Noor (Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Glasgow).
April 2016 Lara Gosce’ (Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Bristol).
October 2015 Jeremiah Smith (Ph.D. in Computing, Imperial College London).
May 2015 Francesco Ficarola (Ph.D. in Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy).
May 2015 Maryam Fatemi (Ph.D. in Computer Science, Queen Mary University London).
January 2015 Daryl Weir (Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Glasgow).
June 2014 Arkadiusz Stopczynski (Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark).
June 2014 Claudio Tomazzoli (Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy).
24 May 2014 Mark Dimond (Ph.D. in Engineering, Geospatial Institute, University of Nottingham).
March 2014 Harshvardhan Ashthana (Ph.D. in Computer Science, University College London).
August 2013 John Doyle (Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland).
April 2013 Giuliano Mega (Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy).
November 2012 Marco Valerio Barbera (Ph.D. in Computer Science, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy).
December 2011 Simon Fleming (D.Phil. in Computer Science, University of Sussex).
November 2011 Daniel Lear (M.Res. in Computers and Networks, University of Essex).
November 2011 Andrew Michael Grundy (Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Nottingham).
I also acted as Internal Examiner for the examination of one doctoral student at Birmingham.
External Examination Activities (Taught Programmes)
External Examiner for the Master Programmes at the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex (2015-2018).
Teaching and Taught Students’ Supervision
Academic Year 2016-2017 Department of Geography, University College London Lecturer for the 3-year Undergraduate module Mining Social and Geographic Datasets. Lecturer for the Master module Principles of Spatial Analysis (lectures on statistics, R programming and network analysis). Tutor of 9 Undergraduate Students.
Academic Year 2015-2016 Department of Geography, University College London Lecturer for the 2-year Undergraduate module GeoComputation and Computational Social Science. Lecturer for the 3-year Undergraduate module Mining Social and Geographic Datasets. Lecturer for the Master module Principles of Spatial Analysis (lectures on statistics, R programming and network analysis). Tutor of 20 Undergraduate students. Supervisor of 3 Independent Study Projects. Supervisor of 5 Undergraduate Final Year Projects. Supervisor of 2 Master Dissertation at Geography and 4 at Computer Science (3 for the Computational Statistics and Machine Learning programme and 1 for the Information Security programme).
Academic Year 2014-2015 Department of Geography, University College London Lecturer for Master module Social Science Methods and Methodologies Part Two (lectures on Geocomputation). Supervisor of 3 Master Projects.
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Academic Year 2014-2015 School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham Lecturer for the Master module Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing.
Academic Year 2013-2014 School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham Lecturer for the 3-year and Master module Networks and Distributed Systems. Lecturer for the Master module Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. Supervisor of 1 Undergraduate Final Year Project.
Academic Year 2012-2013 School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham Lecturer for the 3-year and Master module Networks and Distributed Systems. Lecturer for the Master module Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. Supervisor of 2 Undergraduate Final Year Projects and 4 Masters Projects.
Academic Year 2011-2012 School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham Lecturer for the 3-year and Master module Networks and Distributed Systems. Supervisor of 1 Undergraduate Final Year Project and 5 Master Projects.
Academic Year 2010-2011 School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews Lecturer for the Master module Object Oriented Programming. Lecturer for the first-year Undergraduate module Internet Programming (Introduction to Networking part). Tutor for the first-year Undergraduate module Computer Science in the Everyday Life. Supervisor of 1 Final Year Project.
Academic Year 2009-2010 School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews Lecturer for the first-year Undergraduate module Internet Programming (Introduction to Networking part). Supervisor of 2 MSc Projects. Supervisor of 2 students for the Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program.
Academic Year 2008-2009 Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Department of Computer Science, University College London Supervisor of a visiting student preparing his Master thesis at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Supervisor of a MSc Final Year Project at UCL.
Academic Year 2007-2008 Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College Tutor for the course Software Design and Implementation (Winter 2008 and Spring 2008). He taught part of the course (topics on network programming). He was involved in the definition of the syllabus and in the design of the teaching material. Supervisor of a visiting student preparing his Master thesis at Dartmouth College.
Academic Year 2006-2007 Department of Computer Science, University College London Teaching assistant for the course Object Oriented Programming (14 hours). Supervisor of a visiting student preparing her Master thesis at UCL.
Academic Year 2005-2006 Department of Computer Science, University College London Supervisor of three BSc Final Year projects and co-supervisor of another two. Co-supervisor of two visiting students preparing their Master thesis at UCL. Seminar in the course Mobile and Adaptive Systems.
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Academic year 2004-2005 Department of Computer Science, University College London Lecturer for the course Mathematics for Computer Science (20 hours) for Master students Teaching assistant for the following undergraduate courses: • Concurrent Programming • Compilers Co-supervisor of two BSc Final Year Projects and one MSc Final Year Group Project.
Academic year 2003-2004 Department of Computer Science, University College London Lecturer for the course Mathematics for Computer Science (20 hours) for Master students Teaching assistant for the following undergraduate courses: • Computer Architecture I • Theory I • Programming I • Programming III • Functional Programming
Academic year 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London Teaching assistant for Software Engineering, Operating Systems and Networks distance learning courses for Hong Kong based students.
Enabling Academic Activities
Member of the Steering Committee of the Institute of Digital Health at UCL for the Academic Year 2015-16. Libray Liaison for the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham for the Academic Year 2013-14. Industrial Placements Tutor for the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham for the Academic Year 2011-2012 and 2012-2013. Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews for the Academic Year 2010-2011. Member of the Committee for the restructuring of the Master programmes offered by the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews during the Academic Years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011. Organiser of the Sensor Network Lab Reading Group during the Academic Year 2007-2008 at Dartmouth College. Organiser of the Mobile Systems Seminars Series at UCL during the Academic Years 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007. Co-organiser of the Computer Science Undergraduate Research Seminar Series during the Academic Year 2005-2006.
Outreach Activities
14 March 2015 Lecturer for the Masterclasses on Computing organised by the Royal Institution for schoolchildren (age 14-15). Title of the lecture: An Introduction to Network Science.
Other Professional and Consulting Experience
September 2016 Lecturer for a Training Course on Big Data Analytics for ARUP on topics related to large-scale data mining and urban analytics.
27 January 2011-March 2011 Consultant for NEC Europe, Heidelberg, Germany. Consultancy concerning the design and implementation of systems for large-scale distributed processing and analysis of social networks and telecommunications data.
July 2007-August 2007 Consultant for Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (New York, USA) as Technical Expert for Microsoft in the Microsoft Corporation/European Union competition case on server interoperability.
July 2004-September 2004 Consultant for Zuhlke Engineering Ltd. London, UK. Project for Vodafone Global and Vodafone Spain. Main responsibility: evaluation of the impact of the introduction of Presence services (such as Instant Messaging) on the Vodafone UMTS Core Network.
May 2003-June 2003 Software engineer at Kion, Bologna, Italy. Main responsibility: software architecture design and specification.
March 2003-April 2003 Software engineer at E-Tree, Treviso, Italy. Main responsibility: development of server-side components.
January 2000-November 2000 Civil service (that was compulsory in Italy as alternative for military service) at the Emilia-Romagna Regional Civil Protection Unit. Main responsibility: design of a Web based system for the coordination of officers and volunteers during emergencies.
Academic and Professional Memberships
Fellow of the British Computer Society and Member of the British Computer Society Academy of Computing. Member of the Association for Computation Machinery (ACM). Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Italian Chartered Engineer since November 2003.
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