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Career

· Research Manager, Social Dynamics, Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge2024–
· Professor of Urban Informatics, King’s College London2018–
· Postdoctoral Associate in Urban Informatics, MIT (Postdoctoral Associate)2010–
· PhD in Computer Science, University College London2005–
· Master of Science in Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino1997–
· Research Scientist, Yahoo Labs

Publications (209)

Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves: Predicting Personality with Twitter
2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Social Computing · 2011
529
cited
The shortest path to happiness: recommending beautiful, quiet, and happy routes in the city
ACM Conference on Hypertext & Social Media · 2014
450
cited
Auralist: introducing serendipity into music recommendation
Web Search and Data Mining · 2012
368
cited
Who Benefits from the "Sharing" Economy of Airbnb?
The Web Conference · 2016
282
cited
Recommending Social Events from Mobile Phone Location Data
2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining · 2010
275
cited
Aesthetic capital: what makes london look beautiful, quiet, and happy?
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work · 2014
228
cited
The Death and Life of Great Italian Cities: A Mobile Phone Data Perspective
The Web Conference · 2016
210
cited
The personality of popular facebook users
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work · 2012
183
cited
Tracking "gross community happiness" from tweets
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work · 2012
183
cited
Smelly Maps: The Digital Life of Urban Smellscapes
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2015
175
cited
Chatty maps: constructing sound maps of urban areas from social media data
Royal Society Open Science · 2016
154
cited
StakeNet: using social networks to analyse the stakeholders of large-scale software projects
2010 ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering · 2010
146
cited
The Social World of Twitter: Topics, Geography, and Emotions
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2012
139
cited
B-Trust: Bayesian Trust Framework for Pervasive Computing
Trust Management · 2006
133
cited
TweetLDA: supervised topic classification and link prediction in Twitter
Web Science Conference · 2012
132
cited
In the Mood for Being Influential on Twitter
2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Social Computing · 2011
114
cited
Urban Computing Leveraging Location-Based Social Network Data
ACM Computing Surveys · 2019
113
cited
Sybil Attacks Against Mobile Users: Friends and Foes to the Rescue
2010 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM · 2010
102
cited
FriendSensing: recommending friends using mobile phones
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems · 2009
100
cited
Interdisciplinary Research in Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities
Frontiers in Big Data · 2020
99
cited
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