Research

Projects

Completed

Intel Center on Sustainable Connected Cities [Oct 2012 - Jan 2018]

3cixty (EIT-ICT Labs): a Platform for Apps and Services Offering Comprehensive Views for City Visitors [Jan 2014 - Dec 2014]

Travel Dashboard (EIT-ICT Labs): a Framework for the Delivery of Personalised Mobility Services to Urban Travellers [Jan 2013 - Dec 2013]

iTOUR (EC): intelligent Transport system for Optimized URban trips. [Feb 2010 - Jul 2013]

Community Folks (EC). [Sep 2010 - Mar 2012]

TUCANS (EPSRC): Trusted Group Coordination for Pervasive Computing Systems. [Apr 2007 - Sep 2010]

EmotionSensing (EPSRC Vacation Studentship Bursary): Analysis of Emotions in Twitter Egonetworks [Summer 2010]

UtiForo (EPSRC): Pervasive Computing Support for Market Trading. [Oct 06 - Dec 09]

FriendSensing (EPSRC Vacation Studentship Bursary): Implementation and Evaluation of the FriendSensing Framework for the BlackBerry Platform [Summer 2009]

AMIS (Nuffield): Autonomic Middleware for Intelligent ubiquitous Systems. [June 06 - May 08]

T-UT (EPSRC Vacation Studentship Bursary): Implementation and Evaluation of a Trust-based Community Model within the Urban Tapestry Framework. [Summer 2007]

gTrust (EPSRC Vacation Studentship Bursary): Enhanced Pervasive Service Discovery and Selection based on Trust Group Reasoning. [Summer 2006]

Staff & Students

Current PhD & MEng Students

Timothy Douglas (EPSRC DTP). Analysing and Modelling Work-Life Balance During Major Societal Changes.

Vasco Mergulhão. Modeling Adoption of New Energy Services in Sub-Saharan Rural Communities (second supervisor; first supervisor: Prof Priti Parikh).

Basil Mahfouz. Modelling the Impact of Academic Research on Policy (second supervisor; first supervisor: Prof Geoff Mulgan).

Marco Bertetti. Food Security Analysis and Modeling using Secondary Data (second supervisor; first supervisor: Prof Paolo Agnolucci)

Completed PhD

Chris Smith-Clarke (Google Doctoral Fellowship): Data mining for social good. PhD Student. PhD 2021.

Martin Dittus (EPSRC/Intel): Collaborative practices in crowdsourcing tasks. EngD VEIV student. PhD 2017.

Alessandro Venerandi (EPSRC): Quantifying community well-being from social media data. EngD USAR student. PhD 2017.

Martin Traunmueller (Intel): A quantitative approach to evaluate and develop theories on (fear of) crime in urban environments. PhD 2017.

Lucia Del Prete. Personalised Discovery in Mobile Environments. PhD 2012.

Afra Jahanbakhsh Mashhadi (EPSRC): Content Dissemination in Participatory DTNs. PhD 2011.

Valentina Zanardi (EPSRC): Addressing the Cold Start Problem in Tag-based Recommender Systems. PhD 2011.

Past Staff

Giovanni Quattrone (EIT ICT Labs): Intelligent Transports Systems. Research Fellow.

Desi Hristova (EC): Intelligent Transports Systems. Research Assistant 2011-2012.

Afra Jahanbakhsh Mashhadi (EC): Intelligent Transports Systems. Research Fellow 2011-2012.

Neal Lathia (EC): Intelligent Transports Systems. Research Fellow 2010-2011.

Sonia Ben Mokhtar (EPSRC): Pervasive Social Computing. Research Fellow, 2008-2009.

Aitor Urbieta: Service Composition for Ambient Intelligence. Visiting PhD Student, 2009

Matteo dell'Amico (EPSRC): Trust Propagation based on Competence and Intent. Visiting PhD Student, 2007