Silvia Santini

Silvia Santini

Professor
Silvia Santini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI since September 2016, where she co-leads the People-Centered Computing Lab together with Prof. Marc Langheinrich. From July 2014 until August 2016 she held an Associate Professor position at TU Dresden, where she led the Embedded Systems Lab. From October 2011 until July 2014 she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of TU Darmstadt, Germany, where she led the Wireless Sensor Networks Lab. From 2009 until 2011 she was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Friedemann Mattern’s Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich, and from November 2010 until February 2011 she joined Leonidas Guibas’s research group at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. Silvia completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Friedemann Mattern at ETH Zurich in 2009, and graduated in Telecommunication Engineering (with honors) from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in May 2004.
Publications
(2026). Diagnosing Constraint Awareness for Trustworthy Reinforcement Learning in MEC. IFIP Networking Conference 2026, Lugano, Switzerland, May 24-27, 2026.
(2026). Keynote - Beyond Accuracy: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown in Sensor-Based Human Behavior Modeling. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2026, Pisa, Italy, March 16-20, 2026.
(2026). Measured Enough: How Academic Knowledge Workers Negotiate Data Sharing and Control. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2026, Barcelona, Spain, April 13-17, 2026.
(2025). Blue Mondays and Happy Meals: Investigating the Impact of Contextual Factors on Mood States. Companion of the 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp Companion 2025, Espoo, Finland, October 12-16, 2025.
(2025). Causally Reliable Concept Bottleneck Models. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2025, NeurIPS 2025, San Diego, CA, USA, December 2-7, 2025 / Mexico City, Mexico, November 30 - December 5, 2025.
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(2025). Causally Reliable Concept Bottleneck Models. CoRR.
(2025). Exploring Generalist Foundation Models for Time Series of Electrodermal Activity Data. Companion of the 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp Companion 2025, Espoo, Finland, October 12-16, 2025.
(2025). Robust PPG Authentication: The Role of Temporal, Individual, and State Variability. Companion of the 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp Companion 2025, Espoo, Finland, October 12-16, 2025.
(2025). Unobtrusive Perceived Sleep Quality Monitoring in the Wild. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol..
(2024). Modeling Perceived Sleep Quality Through Objective and Subjective Data. 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2024 - Workshops and Demos, Glasgow, United Kingdom, September 15, 2024.
(2024). Multi-Frequency Federated Learning for Human Activity Recognition Using Head-Worn Sensors. International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 17-20, 2024.
(2023). Enhancing XGBoost with Heuristic Smoothing for Transportation Mode and Activity Recognition. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, October 8-12, 2023.
(2023). Recognition of Engagement from Electrodermal Activity Data Across Different Contexts. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, October 8-12, 2023.
(2022). Handling Missing Data For Sleep Monitoring Systems. 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2022, Nara, Japan, October 18-21, 2022.
(2022). Heart Rate During Sleep Measured Using Finger-, Wrist- and Chest-Worn Devices: A Comparison Study. Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare - 16th EAI International Conference, PervasiveHealth 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 12-14, 2022, Proceedings.
(2022). Multi-task Learning for Stress Recognition. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.
(2022). On the Impact of Lateralization in Physiological Signals from Wearable Sensors. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.
(2022). On the mismatch between measured and perceived sleep quality. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.
(2022). Software-Based Remote Network Attestation. IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput..
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