Jack of all trades, master of none

The idiom above is probably the best definition of my research experience, whether by choice or by necessity I have had the opportunity to confront problems in different areas from networking/systems to artifical intelligence passing by physics, sociology and biology. (publication list)

The problem changes, the tools do not. Cross-fertilization works, at least for me :-)

Research interests

To apply methodologies from artificial intelligence, system dynamics and social science to create flexible, robust and versatile distributed information/computational systems.

• Distributed systems (API's, Multi-agent systems, Web services, Peer-to-Peer)
• Collaborative systems (search, tagging, filtering, voting mechanisms)
• Recommender systems
• Social Networks
• Network dynamics (epidemics, diffusion, search, trust and reputation)

Community service

• Program committee at WAW 2011
• Program committee at SIGIR 2010
• Program committee at IDAR / SIGMOD 2010
• Program committee at CERI 2010
• Program committee at COPS09
• Co-chair of the workshop Social Mobile Web (in 2009, 2010 and 2011)
• Reviewer for the Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems: TPDS
• Reviewer for the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: JASSS

Patents

The catch of indrustry-based research labs...

• Recommender System based on Expert Opinions from the Web (registered in the US Patent Office in 2009, pending)
• Denoising explicit feedback for Recommender Systems via item re-rating (registered in the US Patent Office in 2009, pending)
• A method to achieve load balancing in mobile ad-hoc wireless networks (registered in the US Patent Office in 2009, pending)
• Method and algorithm for efficient partition and replication of social-based applications (registered in the US Patent Office in 2010, pending)