Denzil Ferreira
Dr. (Tech) in Computer Science
Associate Professor, Academy of Finland Research Fellow
Mobile Computing
Center for Ubiquitous Computing
Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
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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.
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