Profile
Since October 2014, I am a Full Professor of Mobile Systems in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. I belong to the Systems Research Group.
I am Director of Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence.
I am a Fellow of Jesus College and since October 2016 I am also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science in London.
From October 2005 until September 2010 I held an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship.
In 2016 I was named among the 2016 – 10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Know.
Education and Previous Employments
I received a Diploma di Laurea in Scienze dell'Informazione and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bologna, Italy.
Prior to joining Cambridge (in 2008), I was a faculty member in the Dept. of Computer Science, University College of London (UK) and an academic visitor at Washington University in St. Louis, MO (USA).
Research Interests
My research interests rotate around mobile and sensor systems, mobility modelling, mobile applications, mobile data analysis. We have worked on systems to improve efficiency of mobile and wearable devices, sensing systems, models able to cater for spatio-temporal aspects related to human mobility. Applications have been in the areas of recommendation, behaviour intervention, health, urban design, organization analytics and zoology.
Personal Interests
My cat: here while resting in the wrong place.
I am a member of RSPCA and NSPCC charities.
Reading books, pretty much everything...fiction, popular science, in particular.
Food: I love good but not too sophisticated restaurants as well as cooking!