Scholar
Massimiliano Luca
Google Scholar ID: wKMrZZgAAAAJ
Researcher @ Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Citations & Impact
Citations
948
H-index
12
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
38
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the Emergent Scientist Award by the Complex System Society (2025), Excellence Certificate from the Bruno Kessler Foundation PhD Program (2025), Best Data Challenge Paper Award at NetMob (2024), Best Paper Award at NetMob (2023), Runner-up Data Challenge Paper Award at NetMob (2023), Editor Selection in AI - Nature Communications (2022), and the Bruno Kessler Foundation / University of Bolzano Fellowship (2019). Published multiple papers such as 'Mixing Individual and Collective Behaviors to Predict Out-of-Routine Mobility' and 'Unfolding Cities from Rooftops'.
Research Experience
- Currently a Senior Researcher at the Mobile and Social Computing Lab, Bruno Kessler Foundation; Head of Research at Pulse.io; Former research intern at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Telefonica Research.
Education
- Obtained a PhD in November 2023 from the Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bolzano. During his PhD, he was a Visiting Researcher at MIT Connection Science and a Visiting Ph.D. Student at CSIC-IFISC.
Background
- Senior Researcher, focusing on socially aware foundation models, human-intelligent agents cooperation, and spatially-aware deep learning for urban, transportation, and mobility tasks.
Miscellany
- Teaching: A.Y. 2025 - GIS Programming with Python; A.Y. 2021-2022 - Algorithms and Data Structures / Scientific Programming; A.Y. 2020-2021 - Algorithms and Data Structures / Scientific Programming; A.Y. 2019-2020 - Algorithms and Data Structures / Scientific Programming, Introduction to Python, Introduction to Algorithms.
