Bruno Lepri
Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy
Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab, Boston, USA
Main Topics:
His research interests include social physics and computational social science, big data and personal data, pervasive and ubiquitous computing and artificial intellingence. In particular, he is currently working on using mobile phone data, social media, and open data to deal with several societal challenges such as crime levels, energy consumption and spreading of epidemics. He is also working to develop new user-centric approaches to personal data management and to investigate the monetization of personal data.
Professional Profile:
Bruno Lepri leads the Mobile and Social Computing Lab (MobS Lab) at Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy).
The main goal of MobS Lab is to build computational approaches to human behavior understanding using the newly ubiquitous digital data that are becoming available about all aspects of human life.
Bruno is also research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab working with the Human Dynamics group and the MIT Connection Science initiative, where he is one of the researchers contributing to Social Physics.
He is also senior research affiliate of Data-pop Alliance, the first think the first think-tank on Big Data and Development co-created by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, Overseas Development Institute, and Flowminder to promote a people-centered Big Data revolution. Moreover, he is responsible for the research tasks definition of the Mobile Territorial Lab, a living lab launched in November 2012 by Telecom Italia, FBK, MIT Media Lab, and Telefonica involving more than 100 families in Trento.
In 2013, he co-organized the Telecom Italia Big Data Challenge.
In 2010 he won a Marie Curie Cofund post-doc fellow and he has held post-doc positions at FBK and at MIT Media Lab.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Trento.
Selected Works:
- The life and death of great italian cities: A mobile phone data perspective, M De Nadai, J Staiano, R Larcher, N Sebe, D Quercia, and B Lepri Proceedings of the World Wide Web conference (WWW), 2016
- Energy consumption prediction using people dynamics derived from cellular network data A Bogomolov, B Lepri, R Larcher, F Antonelli, F Pianesi, and A Pentland EPJ Data Science
- Network diversity and affect dynamics: The role of personality traits. A Alshamsi, F Pianesi, B Lepri, A Pentland, and I. Rahwan PLOS ONE, 2016
- Multimodal personality recognition in collaborative goal-oriented tasks L Batrinca, N Mana, B Lepri, F Pianesi, and N Sebe IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2016
- Beyond contagion: Reality mining reveals complex patterns of social influence A Alshamsi, F Pianesi, B Lepri, A Pentland, and I Rahwan PLOS ONE, 2015
- A multi-source dataset of urban life in the city of Milan and the Province of Trentino G Barlacchi, M De Nadai, R Larcher, A Casella, C Chitic, G Torrisi, F Antonelli, A Vespignani, A Pentland, and B Lepri Scientific Data, 2015
- Moves on the street: Classifying crime hotspots using aggregated and anonymized data on people dynamics A Bogomolov, B Lepri, J Staiano, E Letouze, N Oliver, F Pianesi, and A Pentland Big Data, 2015
- Making big data work: Smart, sustainable, and safe cities B Lepri, F Antonelli, F Pianesi, and A Pentland EPJ Data Science, 2015
- Money walks: A human-centric study on the economics of personal mobile data J Staiano, N Oliver, B Lepri, R de Oliveira, M Caraviello, and N Sebe Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), 2014
- Automatic personality and interaction style recognition from Facebook profile pictures F Celli, E Bruni, and B Lepri Proceedings of the International Conference on ACM-Multimedia (ACM-MM), 2014
- Daily stress recognition from mobile phone data, weather conditions, and individual traits A Bogomolov, B Lepri, M Ferron, F Pianesi, and A Pentland Proceedings of the International Conference on ACM-Multimedia (ACM-MM), 2014
- Once upon a crime: Towards crime prediction from demographics and mobile data A Bogomolov, B Lepri, J Staiano, N Oliver, F Pianesi, A Pentland Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2014
- Modeling functional roles dynamics in small group interactions W Dong, B Lepri, F Pianesi, and A Pentland IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2013
- Predicting spending behavior using socio-mobile features, VK Singh, L Freeman, B Lepri, and Pentland Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), 2013
- Friends don’t lie: inferring personality traits from social network structure J Staiano, B Lepri, N Aharony, F Pianesi, N Sebe, A Pentland Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2012
- Connecting meeting behavior with Extraversion – A systematic study B Lepri, R Subramanian, K Kalimeri, J Statiano, F Pianesi, and N Sebe IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2012
- Do linguistic style and readability affect their virality? M Guerini, A Pepe, and B Lepri Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (IWSC), 2012
- Automatic prediction of small group performance in information sharing tasks W Dong, B Lepri, and A Pentland Proceedings of the International Conference on Collective Intelligence, 2012
- Please, tell me about yourself: automatic personality assessment using short self-presentations LM Batrinca, N Mana, B Lepri, F Pianesi, N Sebe Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), 2011
- Modeling the co-evolution of behaviors and social relationships using mobile phone data W Dong, B Lepri, and A Pentland Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM), 2010
- Employing social gaze and speaking activity for automatic determination of the extraversion trait B Lepri, R Subramanian, K Kalimeri, J Staiano, F Pianesi, and N Sebe Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), 2010
- Multimodal recognition of personality traits in social interactions F Pianesi, N Mana, A Cappelletti, B Lepri, and M Zancanaro Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal interfaces (ICMI), 2008
- Using the influence model to recognize functional roles in meetings W Dong, B Lepri, A Cappelletti, A Pentland, F Pianesi, and M Zancanaro Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal interfaces (ICMI), 2007
- Automatic detection of group functional roles in face to face interactions M Zancanaro, B Lepri, F Pianesi Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), 2006
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