About me
This blog is dedicated to a personal passion of mine which appeared in the last three or four years.
I have worked on a Raspberry PI project (creating a sensor to calculate water velocity from a river bridge - with my colleague Stuart Wrigley. After I got an Arduino Robot for Christmas I started working on Arduino. Then I moved to mobile sensing. All this came out of personal interest. However, as I am an academic and working on data acquisition and analysis, this turned into my own research via the European project WeSenseIt on citizen observatories of water (that I coordinate) and now, starting in 2016, with the European project SETA on large scale data for mobility (again coordinated by me). In these pages - however - you will find only some notes on personal projects and personal interest.
Anyway, my name is Fabio. I grew up in North Western Italy, lived in several places until I moved to the UK a dozen years ago.
I am an academic; most of my time is spent doing research. I work on large-scale information management, an area that sounds terribly boring until you discover that my job lets me fly drones and go to music festivals for free.
I also teach terribly bright students at the University of Sheffield. I teach advanced Web Technologies, another topic that looks terribly boring until you discover it is about doing cool things with Twitter and Facebook.
Some of my undergrads have won competitions and even presented their results to the Prime Minister. Some of them have become PhD students and now are academics or researchers themselves. Others after their PhDs have become CEOs/CTOs and Chief Officers of companies we have created together. That probably means that I am old, because only old people can boast about the great achievements that their children have in life.
I do quite a bit of travelling for work. In the last month I have been to Australia (Melbourne and Sydney) and Dublin (Ireland) and will go to Turin (Italy), Venice (Italy) and Ireland (again) in the coming month.
If I do not reply to your emails, you know why.
Oh, and in case you wonder. I am dyslexic. This is why there are mistakes on these pages. Dyslexia is sometimes a hindrance but helps me think different. The occasional stumbling taught me to fly.
I have worked on a Raspberry PI project (creating a sensor to calculate water velocity from a river bridge - with my colleague Stuart Wrigley. After I got an Arduino Robot for Christmas I started working on Arduino. Then I moved to mobile sensing. All this came out of personal interest. However, as I am an academic and working on data acquisition and analysis, this turned into my own research via the European project WeSenseIt on citizen observatories of water (that I coordinate) and now, starting in 2016, with the European project SETA on large scale data for mobility (again coordinated by me). In these pages - however - you will find only some notes on personal projects and personal interest.
Anyway, my name is Fabio. I grew up in North Western Italy, lived in several places until I moved to the UK a dozen years ago.
I am an academic; most of my time is spent doing research. I work on large-scale information management, an area that sounds terribly boring until you discover that my job lets me fly drones and go to music festivals for free.
I also teach terribly bright students at the University of Sheffield. I teach advanced Web Technologies, another topic that looks terribly boring until you discover it is about doing cool things with Twitter and Facebook.
Some of my undergrads have won competitions and even presented their results to the Prime Minister. Some of them have become PhD students and now are academics or researchers themselves. Others after their PhDs have become CEOs/CTOs and Chief Officers of companies we have created together. That probably means that I am old, because only old people can boast about the great achievements that their children have in life.
I do quite a bit of travelling for work. In the last month I have been to Australia (Melbourne and Sydney) and Dublin (Ireland) and will go to Turin (Italy), Venice (Italy) and Ireland (again) in the coming month.
If I do not reply to your emails, you know why.
Oh, and in case you wonder. I am dyslexic. This is why there are mistakes on these pages. Dyslexia is sometimes a hindrance but helps me think different. The occasional stumbling taught me to fly.