Ciro Cattuto

News

• new paper in Nature Communications: An embedding-based distance for temporal graphs

• new paper in PLoS ONE: Estimating household contact matrices structure from easily collectable metadata

• new paper in eLife: Association of close-range contact patterns with SARS-CoV-2: a household transmission study

• new paper in Frontiers in Big Data: Strengths and limitations of relative wealth indices derived from big data in Indonesia

• book on Data Science for Social Good: Philanthropy and Social Impact in a Complex World

• new paper in Scientific Reports: Psychotropic drug purchases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and their relationship with mobility restrictions

• side event at the UN High-Level Political Forum: Nonprofit Leadership and Data Stewardship in the COVID-19 recovery

• event on The Public Value of Big Data with Fortune Italia

• new paper in PLoS Computational Biology: Interplay between mobility, multi-seeding and lockdowns shapes COVID-19 local impact

• new paper in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface: Effect of manual and digital contact tracing on COVID-19 outbreaks: a study on empirical contact data

• new paper in EPJ Data Science: Using wearable proximity sensors to characterize social contact patterns in a village of rural Malawi

• new paper in PLoS ONE: Early social distancing policies in Europe, changes in mobility & COVID-19 case trajectories: Insights from Spring 2020

• new paper in Nature Communications: Digital proximity tracing on empirical contact networks for pandemic control [featured in Nature Italy’s research highlights]

• new comment in Nature Medicine: Time to evaluate COVID-19 contact-tracing apps [arXiv version]

• new paper in EPJ Data Science: Evaluation of home detection algorithms on mobile phone data using individual-level ground truth

• Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing

• new paper in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications: Gender Gaps in Urban Mobility

• new paper in Science Advances: Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle

• new paper in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance: Combining Wearable Devices and Mobile Surveys to Study Child and Youth Development in Malawi: Implementation Study of a Multimodal Approach

• new paper in Scientific Data: COVID-19 outbreak response: a first assessment of mobility changes in Italy following national lockdown

• new paper in Ethics and Information Technology: Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment

• new paper in the European Journal of Risk Regulation: The Institutionalization of Digital Public Health: Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 App

• new paper in Demographic Research: Traditional versus Facebook-based surveys: Evaluation of biases in self-reported demographic and psychometric information

• new paper in Computers in Human Behavior: Predicting Demographics, Moral Foundations, and Human Values from Digital Behaviors

Bio

I received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Perugia, Italy. I worked as a research scientist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (USA) and then joined the Frontier Research System of the RIKEN Institute (Japan) as a post-doctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. After three years in Tokyo, I joined the "Enrico Fermi Center" in Roma as a Fellow, where I was affiliated with the Physics Department of Sapienza University. In 2008 I joined ISI Foundation, where I led its first Data Science group since 2010. Since 2014, I have served as Scientific Director of the Institute. From 2020 to 2023 I was an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Torino, and in 2022 I worked at the Italian Department of Digital Transformation as an Expert. I served in the Steering Board Member of CRT Foundation, and I currently serve in the Board of Directors of OGR Torino.