Home page of Vassilis Kostakos

Professor of Computer Engineering in Ubiquitous Computing
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Oulu

Fellow of the Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor Program (2010-2011). Research interests: ubiquitous and pervasive computing, human-computer interaction, social and dynamic networks, usable security and trust. [CV] [photo]

News

• 8 Sep 2012: We are organizing two workshops at Ubicomp: one on Mobile instrumentation, and one on Social offline interactions.
• 28 May 2012: Organizing the UBI Summer School 2012. Attend, it's great fun!
• 21 May 2012: Editing a special issue of IJHCS on Social Networks and Ubiquitous Interactions.
• 23-30 Mar 2013: Visiting the University of Lugano, University of Zurich, and ETH Zurich.
• 23 Mar 2012: Keynote at the IEEE Workshop on Social Implications of Pervasive Computing.
• 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.
• 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!