Denzil Ferreira

Denzil Ferreira is the Deputy Director of the Center for Ubiquitous Computing and the Principal Investigator of Community Instrumentation and Awareness (UBICOMP-CIA https://www.ubicomp-cia.com) research group. He is an Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland (2018-2023), and a prior AoF Postdoc Fellow (2014-2017). His main research interests are technology-driven human behavioral sensing and modeling, juxtaposing methods from large-scale data analysis, sensory instrumentation, applied machine learning, mobile and ubiquitous computing to understand and study a variety of human behavioral and social phenomena in naturalistic settings. He created AWARE (https://www.awareframework.com), an interdisciplinary and collaborative mobile context and sensors' data collection tool. AWARE is today used in research efforts worldwide, open source and widely adopted in different domains. He is a Review Editor for Frontiers in Human-Media Interaction, IEEE Communications Society Magazine; a Proposal Reviewer at the Flanders Research Foundation, the Icelandic Research Fund, and the FCT Portugal Foundation; an Associate Editor at PACM IMWUT and in Multiple PCs from ACM and IEEE Venues.