Biography

Rossano Schifanella is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Turin, Italy, where he is a member of the Applied Research on Computational Complex Systems group. He is a research associate at Nokia bell Labs, Cambridge, UK, and a former visiting scientist at Yahoo Labs and at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University where he was applying computational methods to model social behavior in online platforms. His research embraces the creative energy of a range of disciplines across technology, computational social science, data visualization, and urban informatics. He is passionate about mapping social phenomena with the use of digital data, and designing computational frameworks to model aesthetics, creativity, and figurative language in social media.