PhD Student, NetOS Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University

MEng in Computer Science, University College London (2005-2009)

Erasmus Alumni, Vilnius University ( 2005 )

e-mail : an346 [at] cl dot cam dot ac dot uk

Profile

I am a first year PhD student at the Computer Lab and member of the Mobile Systems group led by Dr. Cecilia Mascolo. I am also a member of the FRESNEL project.

Research Interests and Projects

I am interested on how Geosocial Networks, such as foursquare, could be used as a sustainable source of data for mobile or web applications. Feature based representations of entities such as geographical areas or users in those systems could be a first step towards this direction. Also, I would like to help answering questions such as what activities should be recommended to a person at a given point in time and space? Although, that is pretty hard.

Publications

A tale of many cities: universal patterns in human urban mobility
Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato, Renaud Lambiotte, Massimiliano Pontil, Cecilia Mascolo.
Submitted for Publication, August 2011.

Exploiting Place Features in Link Prediction on Location-based Social Networks
Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo.
In Proceedings of 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2011). San Diego, USA. August 2011.

Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Clustering Geographic Areas and Users in Location-based Social Networks
Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo and Massimiliano Pontil
In Proceedings of 3rd Workshop Social Mobile Web (SMW’11). Colocated with ICWSM 2011 Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.

Socio-spatial Properties of Online Location-based Social Networks
Salvatore Scellato, Anastasios Noulas, Ranaud Lambiotte and Cecilia Mascolo.
In Proceedings of Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011). Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.

An Empirical Study of Geographic User Activity Patterns in Foursquare
Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo and Massimiliano Pontil.
In Proceedings of Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011).  Poster Paper. Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.

Analysis of Content and Activity in Geo-Social Networks for Place Recommendations.

A. Noulas, C. Mascolo, Poster Session, Workshop on Future of Social Networks, Cambridge, UK.

November 2010

Inferring Interests from Mobility and Social Interactions [slides small] [slides large]
Anastasios Noulas, Mirco Musolesi, Massimiliano Pontil, Cecilia Mascolo. In Proceedings of Workshop on Analyzing Networks and Learning with Graphs (colocated with NIPS09). Whistler, Canada. December 2009.

Other Interests :

I do not have my very own interests. I do what my good friends do which includes extreme socialising, parties (anywhere), cycling, hiking, diving (without the bottle), coffee drinking and many others...