CURRICULUM VITAE Contact Details Name & Surname: Luca Rossi Place of birth: Venice, Italy Date of birth: January 10, 1985 Position: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science Institution: School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, B4 7ET, Birmingham, UK. Website: www.cs.bham.ac.uk/ rossil Mail: l.rossi@aston.ac.uk, blextar@gmail.com Mobile: (+44) (0) 784 501 8363 Office: (+44) (0) 121 204 3230 Education September 2010-December 2013: PhD in Computer Science at Università Ca Foscari di Venezia, under the supervision of Dr. Andrea Torsello. Thesis title: Modeling, Classification and Analysis of Graph Structures. Research Interests: Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Complex Networks Analysis. October 2008-June 2010: MSc in Computer Science at Università Ca Foscari di Venezia. Thesis title: Medial Surface Extraction for 3D Shape Representation. Final mark: 110/110 summa cum laude. October 2005-October 2008: BSc in Computer Science at Università Ca Foscari di Venezia. Thesis title: A Linear Shortest-Path Algorithm for Planar Graphs: Applications to Image Segmentation. Final mark: 110/110 summa cum laude. Research Experience June-July 2015: Visiting Researcher at the University College of London, Department of Geography. May-July 2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham with EPSRC-funded project MACACO: Mobile context-adaptive CAching for COntent-centric networking (supervised by Dr. Mirco Musolesi). My interest in this project is in the analysis of location data and human mobility. June 2013-April 2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham with EPSRCfunded project The Uncertainty of Identity (supervised by Dr. Mirco Musolesi). I work in the Networked Systems and Data Science Lab, where my interests lie in the modelling of human mobility, the analysis of large Online Social Network datasets and their privacy implications, as well as the manipulation of time-varying graphs. 1
March-September 2012: Visiting Researcher at the University of York, Department of Computer Science, CVPR research group (supervised by prof. Edwin R. Hancock). I have been studying the application of continuous-time quantum walks on graph-based recognition and complex networks analysis. Invited Taks Attributed Graph Kernel from the Quantum Jensen-Shannon Divergence, FEAST, part of the workshop series at ICPR 2014, August 24th, 2014, Stockholm, Sweden. Honors & Awards Best Paper Award (Caianello Prize), International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (September 2015). Best Human Factors and Biometrics Paper, International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (September 2014). Award for Best Research Work in the Scientific Area for PhD students by the Ca Foscari University of Venice (October 2011). PhD Fellowship from the Ministry of Education, 2010-2013, Italy. Teaching Experience Module Leader for Software Architecture (MSc), 2015-present. Module Leader for Mathematics for Computing Professionals (BSc), 2015-present. Teaching Assistant for the Computer Vision course, MSc in Computer Science, Ca Foscari University, 2013. Teaching Assistant for the Artificial Intelligence course, MSc in Computer Science, Ca Foscari University, 2012-2013 Teaching Assistant for the Probability and Statistics course, BSc in Computer Science, Ca Foscari University, 2011. I am currently supervising 4 BSc students and 1 PhD student at Aston University. I have been co-supervising 2 MSc students, Tewabe Chekole Workneh (MSc student at Ca Foscari University, 2012-2013) and James Walker (MSc student at the University of Birmingham, Summer 2013) and 1 BSc internee, Man Xin (BSc student at the University of Science and Technology of China, Internee at the University of Birmingham, Summer 2014). Professional Activities Reviewer Journals Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, Brain Informatics, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Entropy 2
Conferences Int. Workshop on Similarity-Based Pattern Recognition, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, European Conference on Computer Vision, Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, WWW, International Pervasive Health Conference, NIPS. Other The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Organizing Committee Member 1st Int. Workshop on Similarity-Based Pattern Recognition, 2011. Affiliations British Machine Vision Association (membership number: 3147) Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (membership number: 58342) Additional Information Languages English: fluent French: basic Chinese: rudiments Italian: native speaker Other Skills & Interests C/C++, Matlab, Python, Mathematica, Java Guitar Player, Amateur Photographer, Kayaker, and Tennis Player Driving Licence (UK) 3
Journal Articles [1] Lu Bai, Luca Rossi, Lin Cui, Zhihong Zhang, Peng Ren, and Edwin R Hancock. Quantum Kernels for Unattributed Graphs using Discrete-time Quantum Walks. In: Pattern Recognition Letters (2016). [2] Lu Bai, Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, and Edwin R Hancock. A quantum Jensen Shannon graph kernel for unattributed graphs. In: Pattern Recognition 48.2 (2015), pp. 344 355. [3] Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, and Edwin R Hancock. Measuring graph similarity through continuoustime quantum walks and the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence. In: Physical Review E 91.2 (2015), p. 022815. [4] Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, and Edwin R Hancock. Unfolding kernel embeddings of graphs: enhancing class separation through manifold learning. In: Pattern Recognition 48.11 (2015), pp. 3357 3370. [5] Luca Rossi, James Walker, and Mirco Musolesi. Spatio-temporal techniques for user identification by means of GPS mobility data. In: EPJ Data Science 4.1 (2015). [6] Luca Rossi and Andrea Torsello. Coarse-to-fine skeleton extraction for high resolution 3D meshes. In: Computer vision and image understanding 118 (2014), pp. 140 152. [7] Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, Edwin R Hancock, and Richard C Wilson. Characterizing graph symmetries through quantum jensen-shannon divergence. In: Physical Review E 88.3 (2013), p. 032806. Conference Papers [1] Lu Bai, Luca Rossi, Lin Cui, and Edwin R Hancock. A Novel Entropy-based Graph Signature from the Average Mixing Matrix. In: Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2016 23rd International Conference on. IEEE. 2016. [2] Lu Bai, Luca Rossi, Lin Cui, and Edwin R Hancock. A Transitive Aligned Weisfeiler-Lehman Subtree Kernel. In: Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2016 23rd International Conference on. IEEE. 2016. [3] Martin Chorley, Luca Rossi, Gareth Tyson, and Matthew Williams. Pub crawling at scale: tapping Untappd to explore social drinking. In: 10th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 14). 2016. [4] Joshua Lockhart, Giorgia Minello, Luca Rossi, Simone Severini, and Andrea Torsello. Edge Centrality via the Holevo Quantity. In: Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2016. [5] Luca Rossi, Simone Severini, and Andrea Torsello. The Average Mixing Matrix Signature. In: Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2016. [6] Lu Bai, Luca Rossi, and Edwin R Hancock. An Aligned Subtree Kernel for Weighted Graphs. In: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2015. Vol. 37. 2015, pp. 30 39. [7] Lu Bai, Luca Rossi, Peng Ren, Zhihong Zhang, and Edwin R Hancock. A Quantum Jensen-Shannon Graph Kernel using Discrete-time Quantum Walks. In: International Workshop on Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition. Springer International Publishing. 2015, pp. 252 261. [8] Lu Bai, Zhihong Zhang, Peng Ren, Luca Rossi, and Edwin R Hancock. An Edge-based Matching Kernel through Discrete-time Quantum Walks. In: International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing. Springer International Publishing. 2015, pp. 27 38. 4
[9] Luca Rossi, Mirco Musolesi, and Andrea Torsello. On the k-anonymization of Time-varying and Multi-layer Social Graphs. In: 8th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 14). 2015. [10] Luca Rossi, Matthew J Williams, Christoph Stich, and Mirco Musolesi. Privacy and the city: User identification and location semantics in location-based social networks. In: 9th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 14). 2015. [11] Muhammad Adnan, Antonio Lima, Luca Rossi, Suresh Veluru, Paul Longley, Mirco Musolesi, and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. The Uncertainty of Identity Toolset: Analysing Digital Traces for User Profiling. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks. ACM. 2014, p. 254. [12] Lu Bai, Luca Rossi, Horst Bunke, and Edwin R Hancock. Attributed graph kernels using the jensentsallis q-differences. In: Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2014, pp. 99 114. [13] Antonio Lima, Luca Rossi, and Mirco Musolesi. Coding Together at Scale: GitHub as a Collaborative Social Network. In: 8th AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 14). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 2014. [14] Luca Rossi and Mirco Musolesi. It s the way you check-in: identifying users in location-based social networks. In: Proceedings of the second ACM conference on Online social networks. ACM. 2014, pp. 215 226. [15] Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, and Edwin R Hancock. Node centrality for continuous-time quantum walks. In: Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2014, pp. 103 112. [16] Andrea Torsello, Andrea Gasparetto, Luca Rossi, Lu Bai, and Edwin R Hancock. Transitive state alignment for the quantum Jensen-Shannon kernel. In: Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2014, pp. 22 31. [17] Lu Bai, Edwin R Hancock, Andrea Torsello, and Luca Rossi. A quantum jensen-shannon graph kernel using the continuous-time quantum walk. In: International Workshop on Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2013, pp. 121 131. [18] Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, and Edwin R Hancock. A continuous-time quantum walk kernel for unattributed graphs. In: International Workshop on Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2013, pp. 101 110. [19] Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, and Edwin R Hancock. Attributed graph similarity from the quantum Jensen-Shannon divergence. In: International Workshop on Similarity-Based Pattern Recognition. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2013, pp. 204 218. [20] Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, and Edwin R Hancock. Manifold Learning and the Quantum Jensen- Shannon Divergence Kernel. In: International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2013, pp. 62 69. [21] Andrea Albarelli, Filippo Bergamasco, Luca Rossi, Sebastiano Vascon, and Andrea Torsello. A stable graph-based representation for object recognition through high-order matching. In: Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2012 21st International Conference on. IEEE. 2012, pp. 3341 3344. [22] Lin Han, Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, Richard C Wilson, and Edwin R Hancock. Information theoretic prototype selection for unattributed graphs. In: Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2012, pp. 33 41. 5
[23] Luca Rossi and Andrea Torsello. An adaptive hierarchical approach to the extraction of high resolution medial surfaces. In: 2012 Second International Conference on 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization & Transmission. IEEE. 2012, pp. 371 378. [24] Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, and Edwin R Hancock. Approximate axial symmetries from continuous time quantum walks. In: Joint IAPR International Workshops on Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) and Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2012, pp. 144 152. [25] Andrea Torsello and Luca Rossi. Supervised learning of graph structure. In: International Workshop on Similarity-Based Pattern Recognition. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2011, pp. 117 132. Preprints [1] Andrea Torsello and Luca Rossi. Efficient Computation of Decoherent Quantum Walks through Eigenvalue Perturbation. 2016. [2] Antonio Lima, Veljko Pejovic, Luca Rossi, Mirco Musolesi, and Marta Gonzalez. Progmosis: Evaluating Risky Individual Behavior During Epidemics Using Mobile Network Data. 2015. 6