Ciro Cattuto is the Scientific Director of ISI Foundation, a 40-year-old, private, non-profit research institute focusing on complex systems, data science, and their applications to public health and social impact. He is a founder and principal investigator of the SocioPatterns collaboration, an international collaboration on measuring and analyzing human and animal social networks using wearable proximity sensors. He was formerly an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Torino, an Expert in the Italian Department of Digital Transformation, and a member of the Italian Government’s COVID-19 “data” task force, where he focused on digital contact tracing. Dr. Cattuto’s research focuses on measuring and modeling complex phenomena in systems that entangle human behaviours and digital platforms, using digital behavioral proxies to target research problems in computational social science and digital epidemiology. He is interested in the social impact of data science and artificial intelligence and in policies to support the generation of public value from privately held data. Dr. Cattuto holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Perugia, Italy, and has worked as a research scientist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, at the Enrico Fermi Center in Rome, and the Frontier Research System of the RIKEN Institute in Japan. He is an editorial board member of the EPJ Data Science and Scientific Data journals and an academic editor of PeerJ Computer Science. He has been an organizer and chair of leading conferences in Computer Science, Network Science, and Complex Systems.
More about CAIDAS AI Talks
In the 5th series of AI talks, selected guests and new CAIDAS members present their research with exciting talks on current activities and projects. The talks will take place on tuesdays at 16:15. The talks will be 45 minutes, followed by a 15-minute discussion. The language of presentation is English.
Afterwards there will be the opportunity for a casual get together. At the first and the last talk of the series there will also be some drinks and snacks.
Further information on the talk can be found on the CAIDAS AI Talks website.