Enhancing XGBoost with Heuristic Smoothing for Transportation Mode and Activity Recognition

Lidia Alecci is a PhD student at the Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). Her research uses wearable devices for sleep monitoring, personal health, and much more.

Leonardo Alchieri is a PhD student at the Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), supervised by Prof. Silvia Santini. His research pursues machine learning for affective, wearable, and ubiquitous computing, with a focus on personal health.

Nouran Abdalazim is a PhD student at the Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). She works on affective and wearable computing, focusing on personal health and productivity in both the workplace and personal life.

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.