Research interests
Urban Networks and Society
Study of networks and their interaction with people and space.
- analysis and modeling of the social dynamics of cities through networked telecommunications data
- analysis of data from telecommunication and transportation networks to infer information about the functioning of different urban locations, to support research in fields such as urban design, infrastructure deployment, traffic management, and emergency relief.
Ubiquitous Computing
The research deals with the development of an open source real time control system for a city. We are developing a new platform for storing and exchanging data which are location and time-sensitive, making them accessible to users through mobile devices, web interfaces and physical interface objects. This platform enables people to become distributed intelligent actuators, which pursue their individual interests in cooperation and competition with others, and thus become prime actors themselves in improving the efficiency of urban systems. Relevant projects:
Real Time City: A system for real-time data gathering, processing and presentation
The research deals with the realization of a system for the real time gathering of data from different networks in the city, the server-side processing and combination, and a client-side presentation by means of visual software. Relevant projects:
Analysis and Design of Control Systems
Distributed control systems
Fundations for reconfigurable and autonomous cyber-physical systems: cyber-cities and cyber-universities
Cyber-physical systems combine computational systems with physical and engineered systems and can include bionics, automated manufacturing, or systems for monitoring critical infrastructure. This project aims to address the key challenge of realizing a foundational, mathematical understanding of the interaction between the cyber and the physical in these systems in order to both configure a system to respond to unexpected events, and also to quantify the system's limits in responding.Control system theory
Control system applications