Education
| 07–11 Ph.D. in Computer Science, EPFL and Idiap, Switzerland. Advisor: Dr. Daniel Gatica-Perez Examiners: Prof. Pascal Frossard, Prof. Alex Pentland, Dr. Juha Laurila Thesis: A Probabilistic Approach to Socio-Geographic Reality Mining [pdf] |
| 02–04 Master of Electrical Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada. Advisor: Prof. Aaron Gulliver Thesis: Robust H.264/AVC Video Transmission over 3G WCDMA Networks |
| 98–02 Bachelor of Engineering Science, University of Toronto, Canada. Thesis: Phase Interpolator Circuits for High Speed Clock Generation |
Awards
| 2022: Best paper award at Pervasive Health |
| 2012: Best paper nominee at ISWC |
| 2012: Selected to represent CS department to JKU rector, dean, faculty and students |
| 2010: Idiap PhD Student Research Award |
| 2010: Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship |
| 2009: ICMI conference travel grant, from the National Science Foundation (NSF) |
| 2003: NSERC Industrial Post-Graduate Scholarship |
| 2002: University of Victoria President’s Scholarship |
Professional Experience
| 09.17-present: Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK |
| 10.13-08.17: Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| 08.13-10.15: Data scientist, Ginger.io, San Francisco, USA |
| 08.11-08.13: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, JKU, Linz, Austria |
| 02.11-06.11: Research Assistant, Nokia Research Center and Idiap, Switzerland |
| 04.10-06.10: Intern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA |
| 02.07-02.11: Research Assistant, Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland |
| 06.06-01.07: Software Engineer, Broadcom, Vancouver, Canada |
Publications
| Refer to Publications Page [Publications] |
Scientific Committees
General Chair
| EarComp 2023 |
| Ubicomp/ISWC 2019 |
Associate Editor
| IMWUT |
| IEEE Pervasive Computing |
| EPJ Data Science (previously) |
PC Member
| Learning Network Architecture during Training [AAAI W17] |
| The 2019 International Symposium on Wearable Computers [ISWC 2019] |
| First UK Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Systems Research Symposium [MobiUK 2018] |
| Complex Networks [Complex Networks 2018] |
| Int'l Conf on Computational Social Science [IC2S2 2018] |
| The 21st International Symposium on Wearable Computers [ISWC 2018, 2017] |
| ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval [SIGIR 2017] |
| SIGIR 2015 workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis [SoMeRA 2015] |
| SIGIR 2014 workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis [SoMeRA 2014] |
| 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction [ICMI 2014] |
| Conference on Mobile Computing [MOBICASE 2013] |
| Workshop on Mobile Development Lifecycle [MobileDeLi 2014, 2013] |
| NOKIA Mobile Data Challenge [NOKIA MDC 2012] |
| IEEE Conference on Systems. Man, and Cybernetics [IEEE SMC 2012] |
| Workshop on Interactive Human Behavior Analysis in Open or Public Spaces [INTERHUB 2011] |
Journal Reviewer
| Nature Medicine |
| Nature Communications |
| Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies [IMWUT] |
| PLOS ONE [PLOS ONE] |
| IEEE Transactions on Multimedia [TMM] |
| ACM Computing Surveys [CSUR] |
| IEEE Pervasive Computing [PC] |
| IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing [TSP] |
| IEEE Signal Processing Letters |
| IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing |
| ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems [ACM TIIS] |
| IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems |
| IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems [TPDS] |
| Pervasive and Mobile Computing [PMC] |
| Distributed and Parallel Databases [DPD] |
Invited Talks (Selected)
| 03.08.20, The Wearables Medical Revolution CMWSAI Seminar Series, Cambridge UK |
| 27.05.16 Large-Scale Human Behavior Mining Using Smart-Phones, CSS London Initiative, Oxford UK |
| 10.03.15 Epidemics over Mobile Phone Networks, Cambridge Networks Network talk, Cambridge UK |
| 16.10.14 Modelling a Community's Health and Mobility Patterns with Mobile Phone Data, Cambridge, UK |
| 09.12.13 Mobile Sensing for Large-Scale Human Behavior Mining, Ginger.io TechTalk, San Francisco, USA |
| 11.09.13 The digital revolution and it’s impact on society, Zagreb, Croatia |
| 16.07.13 Mobile Sensing for Large-Scale Human Behavior Mining, SBA-Research, Vienna, Austria |
| 19.11.12 The Socionical Approach to Flooding and Epidemics, Crowd Dynamics Conference hosted by the Greater London Authority London Resilience Team, London City Hall, London, UK |
| 04.10.12 The Socionical Approach to Flooding and Epidemics, Seminar on Crisis Management and Intelligent Environments, EU Parliament, Brussels |
| 08.02.12 The Power of Reality Mining, Fakultätstag JKU, Linz, Austria |
| 11.06.10 MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts, USA |
Software
Programming
| Java, C/C++, Python |
Scientific
| Matlab, Octave, R, WEKA |
"Big Data" Specific
| Hadoop, MapReduce, MongoDB, Pig, Hive, Spark |
Other
| Git, MySQL, html, LATEX, cytoscape |