Dr. Neal Lathia
Background
I am a Research Associate in the Networks and Operating Systems Group of Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory, where I am working on the EPSRC UBhave (Ubiquitous and Social Computing for Positive Behaviour Change) Project with Dr. Cecilia Mascolo.
Prior to joining the Computer Lab, I was a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at University College London, where I researched personalisation in mobile/public transport contexts as part of the EC i-Tour project with Dr. Licia Capra. I also obtained my PhD from University College London, under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Hailes and Dr. Licia Capra, funded by the EPSRC Utiforo project: my doctoral work centred around evaluating collaborative filtering algorithms (for online recommender systems) over time.
My research to date falls somewhere in the intersection of data mining, mobile systems, ubiquitous/pervasive systems, and personalisation/ recommender systems, applied to a variety of contexts (e.g., transport). You can find my research blog here.
News
- May 2012: Demo "Using Ratings to Profile Your Health" accepted @ ACM RecSys 2012
- April 2012: New workshop paper. "Using Idle Moments to Record Your Health via Mobile Applications" @ ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science
- April 2012: Workshop on Personalization in Mobile Applications accepted at ACM RecSys 2012: submit by June 8!
- April 2012: Research on public transport usage and social deprivation covered by New Scientist (paper pdf)
Contact Information
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
William Gates Building
15 JJ Thompson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0FD
Email: neal.lathia@cl.cam.ac.uk
Twitter: @neal_lathia
Connect
You can find me online on:
- twitter,
- LinkedIn,
- Google+,
- Quora,
- last.fm,
- goodreads,
- Mendeley,
- read my research blog,
- and see my presentations on slideshare
I have also set up two google groups: one for researchers interested in Shared Bicycle Systems and another one for all researchers who study Public Transport in London (e.g., Oyster card data), and am a co-organiser of the (new) London RecSys meetup group.