My Research Group


PhD Students

Antonio Lima working on "Structure and Dynamics of Large-Scale Spatially-Embedded Social Networks".

Postdoctoral Fellows

Veljko Pejovic (EPSRC-funded "UBhave" Project)

Luca Rossi (EPSRC-funded "The Uncertainty of Identity")

Previous Members

Manlio De Domenico (Postdoctoral Research Fellow  involved in the EPSRC-funded "The Uncertainty of Identity" Project, now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain)

Paul Mougel (Visiting Student from INSA Lyon, France, now finishing his Undergraduate degree)

Thiago Silva (Visiting PhD Student from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG, Brazil)


Research Funding

EU Research Grant: LASAGNE - multi-LAyer SpAtiotemporal Generalized NEtworks (2012-2015)

EPSRC Research Grant: UBhave: Ubiquitous and Social Computing for Positive Behaviour Change (2011-2014)

EPSRC Research Grant: The Uncertainty of Identity: Linking Spatiotemporal Information between Virtual and Real Worlds (2011-2015)


Research Interests

The aim of my research work is to explore the design of efficient and intelligent systems that rely on novel theoretical models and algorithms, working at the interface of different areas - including computer networking, mobile systems, social computing, distributed systems, machine learning, data mining, mathematical modelling and complex networks.

More specifically, one of the main goals of my research work is to devise models as basis for the practical design and implementation of systems (in particular, mobile and social computing systems) that 1) are able to exploit the availability of the exponentially increasing amount of multi-dimensional information about users and their environment (such as location, personal profiles, social network data and so on) and 2) are based on the analysis and characterisation of the structure of the underlying networks (social, technological, etc.) and the dynamics of the processes happening over them, such as data and information exchange.

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

    - Social and ubiquitous computing
    - Large-scale data mining ("big data" mining), with a focus on social, technological and geographic networks
    - Complex networks (network science) and complex systems
    - Mobile systems


Research Projects

I am/I have been involved in the following projects:

Funded Projects

- EU-funded LASAGNE Project
- EPSRC-funded UBhave Project
- EPSRC-funded The Uncertainty of Identity Project
- EPSRC-funded Ubival Project (as Postdoc)
- MetroSense Project (as Postdoc)
- EPSRC-funded CREAM Project (as Research Fellow)

Other Projects

- The Anatomy of a Scientific Gossip (How the rumours about the Higgs boson discovery spread on Twitter)
- Human Mobility Prediction and Nokia Mobile Data Challenge
- EmotionSense
- Spatio-temporal Network Analysis Project
- The Context-aware Adaptive Routing (CAR) protocol
- SCAR: Context-aware Adaptive Routing for Sensors
- Social Networks founded Mobility Models for Ad Hoc Network Research
- Connectivity Trace Generator (CTG)
- A Million People Project
- XMIDDLE Project: A Middleware for Data Sharing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- WSAMI Project: A Middleware Infrastructure for Ambient Intelligence based on Web Service


Research Outputs

List of publications ordered by year
List of publications ordered by type
My Google Scholar page
Software


Research Community Scholarly Service

The list of my current and past activities can be found here.