My Research Group

PhD Students

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

Fani Tsapeli working in the area of data mining of mobile sensing information (title to be decided)

Postdoctoral Fellows

Veljko Pejovic (EPSRC-funded "UBhave" Project)

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

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


EPSRC Research Grant: Trajectories of Depression: Investigating the Correlation between Human Mobility Patterns and Mental Health Problems by means of Smartphones (2014-2015)

EPSRC/EU CHIST-ERA ERA-NET Grant: MACACO - Mobile context-Adaptive CAching for COntent-centric networking (2013-2016)

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 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


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 Rumor (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.