Silvia Santini

Silvia Santini

Professor

Università della Svizzera italiana

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

Martina Brachmann, Olaf Landsiedel, Silvia Santini (2017). Keep the Beat: On-The-Fly Clock Offset Compensation for Synchronous Transmissions in Low-Power Networks. 42nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2017, Singapore, October 9-12, 2017.

Bho Matthiesen, Stefan Pfennig, Mario Bielert, Thomas Ilsche, Andrew Lonnstrom, Tao Li, Juan A. Cabrera, Christian Scheunert, Elke Franz, Silvia Santini, Thorsten Strufe, Eduard A. Jorswieck, Wolfgang E. Nagel, Giang T. Nguyen, Frank H. P. Fitzek (2017). Secure and energy-efficient interconnects for board-to-board communication. 17th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband, ICUWB 2017, Salamanca, Spain, September 12-15, 2017.

Martina Brachmann, Olaf Landsiedel, Silvia Santini (2016). Concurrent Transmissions for Communication Protocols in the Internet of Things. 41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2016, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 7-10, 2016.

Paul Baumann, Marc Langheinrich, Anind K. Dey, Silvia Santini (2016). Quantifying the Uncertainty of Next-Place Predictions. Proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services, MobiCASE 2016, Cambridge, UK, November 30 - December 01, 2016.

Christoph Hofmann, Elke Franz, Silvia Santini (2015). A Metric for Adaptive Routing on Trustworthy Paths. Open Problems in Network Security - IFIP WG 11.4 International Workshop, iNetSec 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, October 29, 2015, Revised Selected Papers.

Paul Baumann, Christian Koehler, Anind K. Dey, Silvia Santini (2015). A population model for predicting human mobility. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC Adjunct 2015, Osaka, Japan, September 7-11, 2015.

Nils Richerzhagen, Tao Li, Dominik Stingl, Björn Richerzhagen, Ralf Steinmetz, Silvia Santini (2015). A step towards a protocol-independent measurement framework for dynamic networks. 40th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2015, Clearwater Beach, FL, USA, October 26-29, 2015.

Denny Stohr, Tao Li, Stefan Wilk, Silvia Santini, Wolfgang Effelsberg (2015). An analysis of the YouNow live streaming platform. 40th IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference Workshops, LCN Workshops 2015, Clearwater Beach, FL, USA, October 26-29, 2015.

Christian Beckel, Leyna Sadamori, Silvia Santini, Thorsten Staake (2015). Automated customer segmentation based on smart meter data with temperature and daylight sensitivity. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2015, Miami, FL, USA, November 2-5, 2015.

Wilhelm Kleiminger, Christian Beckel, Silvia Santini (2015). Household occupancy monitoring using electricity meters. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2015, Osaka, Japan, September 7-11, 2015.

Paul Baumann, Johannes Klaus, Björn Richerzhagen, Wilhelm Kleiminger, Silvia Santini (2015). The UbiDCC Data Set: Collecting Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Scans During a Large-scale Conference. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Context Sensing and Activity Recognition, CSAR 2015, Seoul, South Korea, November 1, 2015.

Martina Brachmann, Dennis Becker, Silvia Santini (2015). Towards enabling concurrent transmissions in heterogeneous networks. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2015, Seattle, WA, USA, April 14-16, 2015.

Paul Baumann, Silvia Santini (2014). How the availability of Wi-Fi connections influences the use of mobile devices. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp ‘14 Adjunct Publication, Seattle, WA, USA - September 13 - 17, 2014.

Paul Baumann, Johannes Klaus, Silvia Santini (2014). Locator: a self-adaptive framework for the recognition of relevant places. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp ‘14 Adjunct Publication, Seattle, WA, USA - September 13 - 17, 2014.

Wilhelm Kleiminger, Silvia Santini, Friedemann Mattern (2014). Smart heating control with occupancy prediction: how much can one save?. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp ‘14 Adjunct Publication, Seattle, WA, USA - September 13 - 17, 2014.

Christian Beckel, Wilhelm Kleiminger, Romano Cicchetti, Thorsten Staake, Silvia Santini (2014). The ECO data set and the performance of non-intrusive load monitoring algorithms. Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, BuildSys 2014, Memphis, TN, USA, November 3-6, 2014.

Iliya Gurov, Pablo Ezequiel Guerrero, Martina Brachmann, Silvia Santini, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Alejandro P. Buchmann (2013). A site properties assessment framework for wireless sensor networks. The 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems, SenSys ‘13, Roma, Italy, November 11-15, 2013.

Christian Beckel, Leyna Sadamori, Silvia Santini (2013). Automatic socio-economic classification of households using electricity consumption data. The Fourth International Conference on Future Energy Systems, e-Energy ‘13, Berkeley, CA, USA, May 22-24, 2013.

Philipp Scholl, Brahim El Majoub, Silvia Santini, Kristof Van Laerhoven (2013). Connecting Wireless Sensor Networks to the Robot Operating System. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2013), the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-2013), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 25-28, 2013.

Viktor Kolokolov, Paul Baumann, Silvia Santini, Stefan T. Ruehl, Stephan A. W. Verclas (2013). Flexible development of variable software features for mobile business applications. 17th International Software Product Line Conference co-located workshops, SPLC 2013 workshops, Tokyo, Japan - August 26 - 30, 2013.

Paul Baumann, Wilhelm Kleiminger, Silvia Santini (2013). How long are you staying?: predicting residence time from human mobility traces. The 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom'13, Miami, FL, USA, September 30 - October 04, 2013.

Wilhelm Kleiminger, Christian Beckel, Thorsten Staake, Silvia Santini (2013). Occupancy Detection from Electricity Consumption Data. BuildSys 2013, Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings, Roma, Italy, November 13-14, 2013.

Pablo Ezequiel Guerrero, Iliya Gurov, Silvia Santini, Alejandro P. Buchmann (2013). On the selection of testbeds for the evaluation of sensor network protocols and applications. 14th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2013, Darmstadt, Germany, June 16-19, 2013.

Paul Baumann, Silvia Santini (2013). On the use of instantaneous entropy to measure the momentary predictability of human mobility. 14th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2013, Darmstadt, Germany, June 16-19, 2013.

Friedemann Mattern, Silvia Santini, John F. Canny, Marc Langheinrich, Jun Rekimoto (2013). The 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp '13, Zurich, Switzerland, September 8-12, 2013. ACM.

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