Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Associate Positions Available

The closing date for the opening related to EU-funded LASAGNE Project has now passed. However, I recently got funding for two projects (both funded by EPSRC, one of them through the EU CHIST-ERA ERA-NET initiative) and I will advertise three positions in the next months (at postdoctoral or pre-doctoral level). The starting dates of these positions will be rather flexible, but around November 2013-March 2014. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested in these opportunities in the meanwhile.

 
- We won the Nokia Mobile Data Open Challenge with our submission Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions! A report of the event can be found here. An extended journal version (currently submitted for publication) can be found here. A website of the project is available here.

- The slides of my lectures at the Summer School on Inference and Dynamics in Interaction that took place in Glasgow from 11 to 15 June 2012 are now available.

- Our paper "Track Globally, Deliver Locally: Improving Content Delivery Networks by Tracking Geographic Social Cascades" has received an award from the Cambridge Computer Lab Ring as "Most Notable Publication" for the year 2012.

- I will give a talk at the "Locations and Beyond 2013" event at the British Library on 23rd October 2013 organised by the Cambridge Wireless Location-based Systems/Services SIG and CSR.

- You might be interested in attending the second workshop on Big Data and Social Media at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh on 28th November 2013.

- I am also currently involved in the following upcoming scientific events. Please consider submitting your work to and attending these conferences and workshops:

    - 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014) [PC Member]
    - 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2014) [PC Member]
    - 34rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2014) - Social Networks, Crowdsourcing and P2P Track [PC Member]
    - 12th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2014) - Work in Progress Track [PC Member]
    - 23rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2014) - Wireless LAN, Ad Hoc, Mesh Networks Track [PC Member]
    - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on the Impact of Human Mobility on Pervasive Systems and Applications (PerMoby 2014) [PC Member]
    - 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2014) - Mobile Computing and Applications Track [PC Member]
    - 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MobiQuitous 2013) [PC Member]

[Past events]


Research Group and Research Interests

The current members of my research group are: Antonio Lima (PhD Student), Fani Tsapeli (PhD Student), Veljko Pejovic (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) and Luca Rossi (Postdoctoral Research Fellow).

The scope of my research interests is fairly broad and rather interdisciplinary. Current areas of interest include:

    - Social and ubiquitous computing
    - Large-scale data mining ("big data" mining) and data science
    - Networked systems and network science

[More on Research Interests, My Research Group, Funding and Projects]


Research Opportunities

Undergraduate and Master Students at the University of Birmingham. Undergraduate and Master projects under my supervision are usually "research-oriented", i.e., they are related to research topics we are currently investigating in my group. More in general, please do not hesitate to contact me, also in advance, if you are interested in a project or in being involved in our research work. More information can be found here. Also, if you are a first or second year Undergraduate student at the University of Birmingham and you are interested in doing a (paid) research internship in my group during the summer just come to my office or drop me an email (also in order to explore the possibility of doing a PhD after your degree).

Ph.D. Students I am looking for motivated Ph.D. students interested in working under my supervision. If you are interested please contact me by email (m.musolesi [@] cs.bham.ac.uk) in order to discuss the funding of your studies (such as available postgraduate studentships and other potential sources of Ph.D. funding).

Postdoctoral Research Fellows. The closing date for the opening related to EU-funded LASAGNE Project has now passed. However, I recently got funding for two projects (both funded by EPSRC, one of them through the EU CHIST-ERA ERA-NET initiative) and I will advertise three positions in the next months (at postdoctoral or pre-doctoral level). The starting dates of these positions will be rather flexible, but around November 2013-March 2014. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested in these opportunities in the meanwhile. I am also to discuss alternative funding opportunities, such as the Marie Curie Actions Research Fellowship Programme or the Newton International Fellowships.

Visiting Students, Researchers and Industrial Collaborations. I am happy to discuss possible visits of UG/Master/Ph.D. students and researchers in my group. I am also happy to discuss potential collaborations with companies and other organisations interested in our research work.


Recent Papers

Anticipatory Mobile Computing: A Survey of the State of the Art and Research Challenges
Veljko Pejovic and Mirco Musolesi
Submitted for Publication. Preprint available on ArXiv: arXiv:1306.2356
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

The Anatomy of a Scientific Rumor
Manlio De Domenico, Antonio Lima, Paul Mougel and Mirco Musolesi
Accepted for Publication in Nature Scientific Reports. Nature Publishing Group. To Appear.
Preprint available on ArXiv: arXiv:1301.2952.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]  [Project Website]  [Videos]

Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions
Manlio De Domenico, Antonio Lima and Mirco Musolesi
Accepted for Publication in Pervasive and Mobile Computing. To Appear.
Extended version of the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge paper.
Pre-print available on ArXiv: ArXiv:1210.2376.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]  [Project website]

Smartphones for Large-Scale Behaviour Change Intervention
Neal Lathia, Veljko Pejovic, Kiran Rachuri, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Peter J. Rentfrow
In IEEE Pervasive Computing. July-September 2013. To Appear.
[PDF]  [BibTeX] 

Exploiting Cellular Data for Disease Containment and Information Campaigns Strategies in Country-wide Epidemics
Antonio Lima, Manlio De Domenico, Veljko Pejovic and Mirco Musolesi
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Analysis of Mobile Phone Datasets (NetMob'13). Boston, Massachusetts, USA. May 2013. Winner of the Data for Development Challenge Best Overall Prize.
[PDF]  [BibTeX] 

The Rebirth of Locality: Information, People and Places in a Connected World
Antonio Lima and Mirco Musolesi
In Proceedings of the 1st Geographic Human-Computer Interaction Workshop. Colocated with ACM CHI'13. Paris, France. April 2013.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Graph Metrics for Temporal Networks
Vincenzo Nicosia, John Tang, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, Giovanni Russo and Vito Latora
Book Chapter in Petter Home and Jari Saramaki (Editors). Temporal Networks. Springer. 2013.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Applications of Temporal Graph Metrics to Real-World Networks
John Tang, Ilias Leontiadis, Salvatore Scellato, Vincenzo Nicosia, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Vito Latora
Book Chapter in Petter Holme and Jari Saramaki (Editors). Temporal Networks. Springer. 2013.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Spatial Dissemination Metrics for Location-based Social Networks
Antonio Lima and Mirco Musolesi
Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2012). Colocated with ACM UbiComp 2012. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. September 2012.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Community Detection Using Cooperative Co-evolutionary Differential Evolution
Qiang Huang, Thomas White, Guanbo Jia, Mirco Musolesi, Nil Turan, Ke Tang, Shan He, John, K. Heath, Xin Yao
In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XII).  Springer.  Taormina, Italy. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7492. September 2012.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]


Community Detection in Social and Biological Networks using Differential Evolution
Guanbo Jia, Zixing Cai, Mirco Musolesi, Yong Wang, Dan Tennant, Ralf Weber, John Heath and Shan He.
Proceedings of the 6th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION 6). Paris, France. Springer. January 2012.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

SociableSense: Exploring the Trade-offs of Adaptive Sampling and Computation Offloading for Social Sensing
Kiran K. Rachuri, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, and Peter J. Rentfrow
In Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'11), Las Vegas, USA. September 2011.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

NextPlace: A Spatio-temporal Prediction Framework for Pervasive Systems
Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Vito Latora and Andrew T. Campbell
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive'11). San Francisco, California, USA. June 2011.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Exploiting Temporal Complex Network Metrics in Mobile Malware Containment
John Tang, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Vito Latora
In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM'11). Lucca, Italy. June 2011.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Track Globally, Deliver Locally: Improving Content Delivery Networks by Tracking Geographic Social Cascades
Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Jon Crowcroft.
In Proceedings of the 20th World Wide Web Conference  (WWW'11). Hyderabad, India. March 2011.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

EmotionSense: A Mobile Phones based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research
Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Peter J. Rentfrow, Chris Longworth and Andrius Aucinas
In Proceedings of 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'10). Copenhagen, Denmark. September 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Energy Accuracy Trade-offs in Querying Sensor Data for Continuous Sensing Mobile Systems
Kiran K. Rachuri, Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo
In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Mobile Context Awareness: Capabilities, Challenges and Applications. Colocated with ACM UbiComp'10. Copenhagen, Denmark. September 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Distance Matters: Geo-social Metrics for Online Social Networks
Salvatore Scellato,  Cecilia Mascolo , Mirco Musolesi and Vito Latora
In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'10). Colocated with USENIX'10. Boston, MA, USA. June 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

On Nonstationarity of Human Contact Networks
Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX'10). Colocated with IEEE ICDCS'10. Genova, Italy. June 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

MetroTrack: Predictive Tracking of Mobile Events using Mobile Phones
Gahng-Seop Ahn, Mirco Musolesi, Hong Lu, Reza Olfati-Saber and Andrew T. Campbell
In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'10). Santa Barbara, California, USA. June 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Small-world Behavior in Time-varying Graphs
John Tang, Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora
Physical Review E. Volume 81, Number 5.  055101(R). May 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones
Mirco Musolesi, Mattia Piraccini, Kristof Fodor, Antonio Corradi and Andrew T. Campbell.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive'10). Helsinki, Finland. May 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Analysing Information Flows and Key Mediators through Temporal Centrality Metrics
John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora and Vincenzo Nicosia.
In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS'10). Colocated with ACM SIGOPS EuroSys'10. Paris, France. April 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

Characterising Temporal Distance and Reachability in Mobile and Online Social Networks
John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora.
In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. Volume 40. Number 1. January 2010.
[PDF]  [BibTeX]

[Complete list of my publications and my Google Scholar Page]

It is true that software cannot exercise its powers of lightness except through the weight of hardware. But it is the software that gives the orders, acting on the outside world and on machines that exist only as functions of software and evolve so that they can work out ever more complex programs. The second industrial revolution, unlike the first, does not present us with such crushing images as rolling mills and molten steel, but with "bits" in a flow of information travelling along circuits in the form of electronic impulses. The iron machines still exist, but they obey the orders of weightless bits.

Italo Calvino, from Leggerezza - Lightness in Lezioni Americane - Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988).


Ideas as made up of several simple ones put together I call Complex; such as are Beauty, Gratitude, a Man, an Army, the Universe.

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690).