Claudio Martella
Claudio Martella obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the VU University Amsterdam, working on proximity sensing and crowd behavior. His research interests span a wide range of topics, from large-scale data management (e.g., Big Data, Machine Learning), complex networks modeling (e.g., Graph Analytics), to geo/location information analysis. His interests brought him to collaborate on these topics with companies like Facebook, Google, Spotify, and Telefonica. He is currently a software engineer at Google in London, UK.
From Sensing Proximity to Understanding Crowd Behavior
How do users interact with products in a store? What is the best disposition of artwork in a museum? How can airports prevent queue formation at security checks? Predicting crowd behavior through proximity sensors is not that far ahead in the future.