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Vassilis is Professor of Computer Engineering in Ubiquitous Computing at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Oulu. He has held appointments at the University of Madeira and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bath. He has been a Fellow of the Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor Programme. He conducts research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing, human-computer interaction, social and dynamic networks, usable security and trust. [CV] [photo]

News

• 21 May 2012: Editing a special issue of IJHCS on Social Networks and Ubiquitous Interactions.
• 23 Mar 2012: Keynote at the IEEE Workshop on Social Implications of Pervasive Computing.
• 17 Jan 2012: Organizing the UBI Summer School 2012. Attend, it's great fun!
• 28 Nov 2011: Organising a WWW12 workshop on Social web for disaster management.
• 1 Oct 2011: I have now moved to the University of Oulu.
• On the program committee for Interact2011, Simplex2011, Sotics2011, SocialComNet2011, C&T2011, HotPlanet2011, DigitalCities7. Please submit!
• 16 Sep 2010: Keynote at IEEE Latincom in Bogota, Colombia.
• 13 Sep 2010: Invited talk at I2COMM in Cali, Colombia.
• 1 Jul 2010: Scientific American talks about our work on crowd behaviour and manipulation.
• 10 Jun 2010: Spending summer with my team in Oulu for fieldwork.
• 31 May - 4 June 2010: Teaching Urban Social Network analysis at the 1st UBI Summer School.
• 4 May 2010: Became a mentor of the New Scholars Research Grant recipients in Thailand.
• 1 May 2010: Received an IBM Open Collaboration Faculty Award.
• 30 Mar 2010: Became a Fellow of the Finland Distinguished Professor programme.
• 15 Feb 2010: Chairing demos at TEI 2011. Make sure to submit!
• 10 Feb 2010: Chairing workshops at Ubicomp 2010. Make sure to submit!