Computer Laboratory

Profile

Invited Talks

• Sensor Data: Supporting Experience Sampling... and Urban Recommendations
  Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. February 2013.
• [slides] Context-Awareness in Mobile Applications
  Keynote, MobCom Workshop. Ghent, February 2013.
• [slides] London Shared Bicycles: Measuring Intervention Impact
  Workshop on Spatio-temporal Data Mining for a Better Understanding of People's Mobility:
  The Bicycle Sharing System (BSS) Case Study. Paris, December 2012.
• [slides] How can sensors be used to infer how people feel?
  DTU Informatics Technical University of Denmark. Copenhagen, August 30 2012.
• [slides] Turning Oyster Cards into Information Systems
  The Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. Leeds, February 24, 2012.
  The Information Retrieval Group, University of Glasgow. Glasgow, April 16, 2012.
• [slides] Does Location Matter?
  "Apps, INSPIRE, and the New Economy" workshop hosted by AGI Scotland. Edinburgh, November 21, 2011.
• [slides] Personalisation for Smart(er) Cities
  At the Department of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Italy, July 1st, 2011
• [slides] Recommendations for Urban & Transport Contexts
  At a Media Futures Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University College London. London, May 25, 2011
• [slides] Personalisation in the Context of Intelligent Transport Systems
  At ATA Cooperative Day of Adaptive Travel Information (CAAR Workshop). Pomigliano D'Arco, Naples, Italy. Nov. 5, 2010.
• Other talks/slides (e.g., conference paper presentations) are available on my slideshare page.

Research Projects

• January 2012 - Now. EPSRC UBHave
  Research Associate.Ubiquitous and Social Computing for Positive Behaviour Change.
• March 2010 - December 2011. EC iTour
  Research Associate. intelligent Transport system for Optimized URban trips.
• May 2008 - Jul 2008. Telefonica I+D Multimedia Group
  Research Intern, working with Xavier Amatriain.
• Oct 2006 - Dec 2009. EPSRC Utiforo
  PhD Student. Pervasive Computing Support for Market Trading.

Press Coverage

• [Various] Emotion Sense App for Android
• [New Scientist] Crunch commuter data to track changing communities. April 11, 2012.
• [BBC News] Are Your Travel Habits Making Journeys More Expensive? May 13, 2011.

Programme Committee

Conferences

• International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2013 (ICWSM) (Workshops, PC)
• ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing 2013 (Ubicomp) (Social Media Chair)
• ACM Annual Conference on Information Retrieval 2013 (SIGIR) (Short Papers)
• ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2013 (CIKM)
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing 2012 (MobiQuitous)
• ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing 2012 (Ubicomp) (External)
• ACM 21st International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
• ACM Annual Conference on Information Retrieval 2012 (SIGIR) (Posters)
• IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing 2012 (PerCom)
• ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing 2011 (Ubicomp) (External)
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2011 (IJCAI)
• ACM Annual SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval 2011 (SIGIR) (Posters)
• ACM Annual SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval 2010 (SIGIR)
• ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining 2009 (WSDM) (Late-breaking)
• IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2009 (SocialCom) and 2010
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2009 (SAC) and 2010
• IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies 2008 and 2009

Journals

• Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal
• World Wide Web Journal
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Workshops

• 1st Workshop on Personal Data Meets Distributed Multimedia at ACM MM 2013
• At UbiComp 2013:
  • 3rd Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) (co-organiser)
  • 2nd Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science
  • SenCity: Uncovering the Hidden Pulse of a City
• Workshop on Benchmarking Adaptive Retrieval and Recommender Systems at SIGIR 2013
• 2nd International Workshop on Citizen Sensor Networks (CitiSen) at EECS 2013
• When the City Meets the Citizen at ICWSM 2013
• Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services at UMAP 2013
• At ACM RecSys 2012
  • Personalization in Mobile Applications (co-organiser)
  • Recommendation Utility Evaluation: Beyond RMSE
  • Context-Aware Recommender Systems
• Mobile Systems for Computational Social Science at MobiSys 2012
• When the City Meets the Citizen at ICWSM 2012
• Pervasive Urban Applications at Pervasive 2012
• At ACM RecSys 2011
  • Personalization in Mobile Applications (co-organiser)
  • Challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation
  • Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems
  • Novelty and Diversity in Recommender Systems
• Trust and Privacy in Distributed Information Sharing at IFIPTM 2011
• Context-Awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation at IUI 2011
• Search and Mining User-Generated Contents at CIKM 2010
• At ACM RecSys 2010
  • Music Recommendation and Discovery
  • Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems
• TRESS Workshop at IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2010
• The Mobile Social Web (SMW'10) at MobileHCI 2010
• Soft Computing for Recommender Systems at ISDA 2009
• Computational Trust for Self-Adaptive Systems at IARIA Adaptive 2009
• Trust in Mobile Environments at IFIPTM 2008
• The Value of Security through Collaboration at ACM SecureComm 2008