About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bolzano and in the Mobile and Social Computing Lab at Fondazione Bruno Kessler. Also, I am a researcher at Pulse.io. Previously, I have been a Visitor Researcher at  MIT Connection Science and a Visiting Ph.D. Student at CSIC-IFISC.

I am broadly interested in computational sustainability and machine learning methods to predict and generate human mobility. Human mobility is highly connected with multiple modern challenges such as migration, pollution, the spreading of diseases, and many others. Currently, I am working on creating geographically transferable deep learning models for human mobility

I was a research intern at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Telefonica Research where I worked with Enrique Frias-Martinez and Andra Lutu. I obtained my Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Trento.

Teaching

Honors and Awards

Publications

• Massimiliano Luca, Bruno Lepri, Enrique Frias-Martinez, Andra Lutu
  Modeling International Mobility using Roaming Cell Phone Traces during COVID-19 [PDF]
  EPJ Data Science

• Massimiliano Luca, Gianni Barlacchi, Nuria Oliver, Bruno Lepri
  Leveraging Mobile Phone Data for Migration Flows [PDF]
  Data Science for Migration and Mobility 

• Filippo Simini, Gianni Barlacchi, Massimiliano Luca, Luca Pappalardo
  Deep Gravity: enhancing mobility flows generation with deep neural networks and geographic information [PDF]
  Nature Communication

• Massimiliano Luca, Gianni Barlacchi, Bruno Lepri, Luca Pappalardo
  A Survey on Deep Learning for Human Mobility [PDF]
  ACM Computing Survey

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