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Mirco Musolesi 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. 1 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). 2 Funding 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
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