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Career

· AI Research Technology, Quadrature2025–
· Head Of Research Technology, Quadrature2025–
· Member Of Board Of Directors, Fondazione Marea2024–
· Director Of Engineering, Google DeepMind2024–2025
· Senior Software Engineering Manager, Google DeepMind2021–2024
· Software Engineering Manager, Google DeepMind2019–2021
· Staff Software Engineer, Google2016–2019
· Senior Software Engineer, Google2012–2016
· Software Engineering Intern, Google2011–2011
· Research Intern, University of Cambridge2008–2009
· Research Intern, University College London2007–2007
· Designer And Developer, Sicilia Sistemi2006–2006

Publications (49)

A Tale of Many Cities: Universal Patterns in Human Urban Mobility
PLoS ONE · 2011
672
cited
Exploiting place features in link prediction on location-based social networks
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2011
554
cited
An Empirical Study of Geographic User Activity Patterns in Foursquare
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2011
553
cited
Socio-Spatial Properties of Online Location-Based Social Networks
International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2011
499
cited
Street Centrality and Densities of Retail and Services in Bologna, Italy
2009
416
cited
Mining User Mobility Features for Next Place Prediction in Location-Based Services
2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining · 2012
361
cited
Structural properties of planar graphs of urban street patterns.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics · 2005
350
cited
NextPlace: A Spatio-temporal Prediction Framework for Pervasive Systems
International Conference on Pervasive Computing · 2011
312
cited
Street Centrality and the Location of Economic Activities in Barcelona
2012
302
cited
Small-world behavior in time-varying graphs.
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics · 2009
289
cited
Geo-spotting: mining online location-based services for optimal retail store placement
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2013
276
cited
YouTube around the world: geographic popularity of videos
The Web Conference · 2012
252
cited
Distance Matters: Geo-social Metrics for Online Social Networks
Workshop on Online Social Networks · 2010
249
cited
Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Clustering Geographic Areas and Users in Location-based Social Networks
The Social Mobile Web · 2011
216
cited
A Random Walk around the City: New Venue Recommendation in Location-Based Social Networks
2012 International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 International Confernece on Social Computing · 2012
199
cited
Evolution and sustainability of a wildlife monitoring sensor network
ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems · 2010
188
cited
Track globally, deliver locally: improving content delivery networks by tracking geographic social cascades
The Web Conference · 2011
172
cited
The backbone of a city
2005
97
cited
Evolution of a location-based online social network: analysis and models
ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference · 2012
94
cited
Correction: A Tale of Many Cities: Universal Patterns in Human Urban Mobility
PLoS ONE · 2012
89
cited
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