Seminar: Sensing and Modelling Human Behaviour for Intelligent Systems Design

Speaker: Mirco Musolesi, UCL, Geography
UCL Contact: Lisa Howard (Visitors from outside UCL please email in advance).
Date/Time: 16 Dec 16, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Physics A1/3

Abstract

We constantly generate digital traces in our online and offline lives, for example by using our smartphones, by interacting with everyday devices and the technological infrastructure or simply by posting content on online social media platforms. This information can now be used to model and possibly predict human behaviour in real-time, at a scale and granularity that were just unthinkable a few years ago.

In this talk I will present the recent efforts of my lab in developing intelligent systems based on sensing, analysis and modelling of these digital traces. More specifically, I will discuss some ongoing projects in the areas of digital health and security&privacy. I will provide an overview of the algorithmic, methodological and systems issues related to the development of solutions that rely on the online analysis and modelling of this type of data. Finally, I will outline open challenges in this research area.

Mirco Musolesi

Mirco Musolesi is a Reader in Data Science at the Department of Geography at University College London and a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. At UCL he leads the Intelligent Social Systems Lab. He received a PhD in Computer Science from University College London and a MSci in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna. After postdoctoral work at Dartmouth College and Cambridge, he held academic posts at St Andrews and Birmingham. The research focus of his lab is on sensing, modelling, understanding and predicting human behaviour in space and time, at different scales, using the "digital traces" we generate daily in our online and offline lives. He is interested in developing mathematical and computational models as well as implementing real-world systems based on them. This work has applications in a variety of domains, such as intelligent systems design, healthcare and security & privacy.