ITU Copenhagen Denmark
Luca Aiello holds a PhD in Computer Science from the university of Turin, Italy. He is currently an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Previously, he worked for 10 years as a Research Scientist in the industry: at Yahoo Labs in Barcelona, and at Bell Labs in Cambridge (UK). He conducts research in Computational Social Science, an interdisciplinary field of studies that uses Social Science theories to guide the solution to Data Science problems. He is currently working on text analysis techniques that, when applied to conversations, can help understand people’s social behavior and psychological well-being. His work has been covered by hundreds of news articles published by news outlets worldwide including Wired, WSJ, and BBC.