Emanuele Massaro, Ph.D.
Current Positions:
Previous Positions:
Education:
- Senior Scientist - HERUS Lab - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL) (2017-Present)
- Consultant - World Bank Group (2019-Present)
Previous Positions:
- Data Scientist - ISI Foundation - Turin, Italy (2018-2109)
- Postdoctoral Fellow - SENSEable City Lab - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015-2017)
- Postdoctoral Associate - Carnegie Mellon University (2014-2015)
- Contractor - Risk and Decision Science Team - Army Corps of Engineer (2014-2015)
Education:
- PhD Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics - University of Florence - Italy (2014)
- BSc - MSc Environmental Engineering - University of Florence - Italy (2006-2009)
Selected Publications
Urban Sustainability (NEW BOOK!)
Network Science
Data Science
- C.R. Binder, R. Wyss and E. Massaro, editors. Sustainability Assessments of Urban Systems. Cambridge University Press; 2020 Feb 29.
Network Science
- E. Massaro, A. Ganin, N. Perra, I. Linkov and A. Vespignani, Resilience management during large-scale epidemic outbreaks, Nature Scientific Reports 8, 1859 (2018)
- A. A. Ganin, E. Massaro, A. Gutfraind, N. Steen, J. M. Keisler, A. Kott, R. Mangoubi, and I. Linkov. Operational resilience: concepts, design and analysis, Nature Scientific Reports 6, 19540 (2016)
- E. Massaro and F. Bagnoli, Epidemic spreading and risk perception in multiplex networks: a self-organized percolation method, Phys. Rev. E 90, 052817, (2014)
- E. Massaro, F. Bagnoli, A. Guazzini and P. Liò. Information dynamics algorithm for detecting communities in networks. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 17(11): 4294 – 4303, (2012)
Data Science
- E. Massaro, D. Kondor and C. Ratti, Assessing the Interplay between human mobility and mosquito borne diseases in urban environments, Nature Scientific Reports 9, 16911 (2019)
- E. Massaro, C. Ahn, R. Stahlman, A. Lamprecht, M. Rhoeder, M. Huber, P. Santi, and C. Ratti, The car as an ambient sensing platform, Proceedings of the IEEE 105(1), pp 3-7, (2017)
- B. Behooroz, E. Massaro, I. Bojic, S. Sobolevsky and C. Ratti, Socioeconomic characterization of regions through the lens of individual financial transactions, PLoS ONE 12(11): e0187031 (2017)
- M. Claudel, E. Massaro, F. E. Murray and C. Ratti, An exploration of collaborative scientific production at MIT through spatial organization and institutional affiliation, PLoS ONE 12(6): e0179334, (2017)
Projects
Urban Mosquitoes
Everyday travel within a city — especially commuting — is an important factor influencing the spread of certain diseases in urban settings, according to new research. this kind of research could prove especially important in developing countries, and the the current study can be extended into a further examine of the precise options officials would have available to them, in case of future outbreaks.
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Epidemic Modelling
Assessing the impact to disease outbreaks is a difficult endeavour. We need to consider not only the individuals’ risk to acquire the disease, the incidence and prevalence of the disease, its severity and long-term impact on the health of the population but many other aspects that characterize the impact of an epidemic, such as services disruption, economic crisis and social conflicts.
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Car As a Sensing Platform
Over the past few years, cars have been transformed from the kinds of mechanical systems Henry Ford might have imagined into veritable computers on wheels, filled with thousands of sensors. We asked the question: what could we extract from this wealth of information? Could we use it to better understand how drivers make decisions, and to improve overall safety on the roads and in our cities?
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Networks Resilience
Building resilience into today’s complex infrastructures is critical to the daily functioning of society and its ability to withstand and recover from natural disasters, epidemics, and cyber-threats. This project proposes quantitative measures that capture and implement the definition of engineering resilience advanced by the National Academy of Sciences.
MIT Collaboration
Academic research is increasingly cross-disciplinary and collaborative, between and within institutions. In this context, what is the role and relevance of an individual’s spatial position on a campus? We examine the collaboration patterns of faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, through their academic output. These insights contribute an architectural dimension to the field of scientometrics.
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Driving DNA
Assessing the impact to disease outbreaks is a difficult endeavour. We need to consider not only the individuals’ risk to acquire the disease, the incidence and prevalence of the disease, its severity and long-term impact on the health of the population but many other aspects that characterize the impact of an epidemic, such as services disruption, economic crisis and social conflicts.
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Urban Lens
Urban Lens explores millions of anonymized financial transactions in Spain based on data provided by BBVA. The data provides an opportunity to uncover macro trends derived from a fine-grained scale of individual economic behavior. This project performs a comparative analysis of city microeconomics, aiming to elucidate how bigger economic patterns could be understood utilizing data of individual economic transactions.
Recognition
In the Recognition project we are looking for innovative ways to autonomously provide and manage content relevant to the individual user. The project is inspired by the cognitive processes that humans exhibit for self-awareness. Examples include the heuristics and cues that we subconsciously everyday for rapid decision making and negotiating conflicting signals in physical and social situations.
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