Mirco Musolesi

Lecturer in Computer Science



PhD in Computer Science, University College London 2007
MSc in Electronic Engineering, University of Bologna 2002

E-mail: mirco [AT] cs.st-andrews.ac.uk

Postal mail address:
School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews
North Haugh
Jack Cole Building
St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9SX United Kingdom

Office: Jack Cole Building - Room 1.26

Office phone number: +44 (0) 1334 463255

Office hours: I have an open-door policy. If I am in the office and my door is open, please feel free to drop by. However, I suggest to try to arrange a meeting in advance by email in order to maximise the likelihood of finding me available.


What's new

3 February 2010
Our paper "Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones" has been accepted for presentation in the main program of Pervasive'10. The paper discusses strategies for optimised uploading of streams of data for mobile sensing applications based on smartphones. The paper can be found here.

13 December 2009
Our paper at WOSN'09 has been selected as best paper for publication in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. The revised and extended journal version of the paper is available here.

4 December 2009
A new website about our current project on analysis and modelling of spatio-temporal networks can be found here.

16 November 2009
Our paper Inferring Interests from Mobility and Social Interactions has been accepted at the NIPS'09 Workshop on Analyzing Networks and Learning with Graphs.

1 November 2009
I joined the School of Computer Science at the University of St. Andrews as Lecturer.


Research Interests

The main goal of my research work is to devise models and design systems (in particular, mobile and networked systems) that are based on the analysis and characterisation of the structure of the underlying networks (social, technological, etc.) and the dynamics of the processes happening over them.  One of my aims is to explore the design of efficient and intelligent systems that rely on novel theoretical models and algorithms, working at the interface of different areas - including computer networking, mobile systems, sensing systems, distributed systems, machine learning, data mining, mathematical modelling and complex networks.

[More on Research Interests, Research Students and Projects]


Research Opportunities

Undergraduate Students at St. Andrews Summer research internships allow undergraduate students to experience first hand what it would be like to be a scientific researcher by taking part in a research project during their summer holidays. Potential projects under my supervision include for example the study of online social networks (such as Twitter and Facebook) and technological networks (such as the Internet and mobile networks). More information about the Undergraduate Summer Internships - including the scheme run by the University - can be found here. More details about my research interests can be found here.

Ph.D. Students I am looking for excellent Ph.D. students that would like to work under my supervision. I am particularly interested in supervising students willing to work in the areas of network science (in particular, network models, large network data mining and applications of complex network theory to social networks and technological networks) and "intelligent" mobile systems (in particular, applications of machine learning to the design of mobile systems). Please contact me well in advance in order to identify potential ways of funding your studies. More information about the Ph.D. program of our School can be found here. More details about my research interests can be found here.

Visiting Students, Researchers and Industrial Collaborations Other opportunities include visiting research periods for postgraduate students, researchers and academics. I am also happy to discuss potential collaborations with companies and other organisations interested in our research work.

If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please do not hesitate to drop me an email (mirco [AT] cs.st-andrews.ac.uk).


Recent Papers

Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones
Mirco Musolesi, Mattia Piraccini, Kristof Fodor, Antonio Corradi and Andrew T. Campbell
In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive'10). Helsinki, Finland. May 2010. To appear.
[PDF] [BibTex]

Small-world Behavior in Time-varying Graphs
John Tang, Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora
Submitted for Publication. Available on Arxiv. arXiv:0909.1712v1
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Characterising Temporal Distance and Reachability in Mobile and Online Social Networks
John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora
In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. To appear.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Inferring Interests from Mobility and Social Interactions
Anastasios Noulas, Mirco Musolesi, Massimiliano Pontil and Cecilia Mascolo.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing Networks and Learning with Graphs. Colocated with NIPS'09. Whistler, Canada. December 2009.
[PDF] [BibTex]

Temporal Distance Metrics for Social Network Analysis
John Tang, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo and Vito Latora
In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN'09). Colocated with ACM SIGCOMM'09. Barcelona, Spain. August 2009. Selected as best paper for publication in ACM Computer Communication Review. The extended versiono f the workshop paper can be found here.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

CAR: Context-aware Adaptive Routing for Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks
Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo
In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Vol. 8 No. 2. February 2009.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Mobility Models for Systems Evaluation. A Survey
Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo
Book Chapter in Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications. Benoît Garbinato, Hugo Miranda and Luís Rodrigues Editors. Springer. February 2009.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Sensing Meets Mobile Social Networks: The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the CenceMe Application
Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Kristof Fodor, Ronald A. Peterson, Hong Lu, Mirco Musolesi, Shane B. Eisenman, Xiao Zheng, Andrew T. Campbell
In Proceedings of 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'08). Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. November 2008. 
[PDF]  [BibTex]

A Framework for Multi-region Delay Tolerant Networking 
Mirco Musolesi and Cecilia Mascolo
In Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Wireless Networks and Systems for Developing Regions (WiNS-DR'08). Colocated with ACM MobiCom'08. San Francisco, California, USA. September 2008. 
[PDF]  [BibTex]

The Rise of People-Centric Sensing
Andrew T. Campbell, Shane B. Eisenman, Nicholas D. Lane, Emiliano Miluzzo, Ronald A. Peterson,
Hong Lu, Xiao Zheng, Mirco Musolesi, Kristof Fodor and Gahng-Seop Ahn
In IEEE Internet Computing. Special Issue on Mesh Networks. July/August 2008.  
[PDF]  [BibTex]

The Second Life of a Sensor: Integrating Real-world Experience in Virtual Worlds using Mobile Phones
Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane,  Shane B. Eisenman, and Andrew T. Campbell.
In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets 2008). Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. June 2008. 
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Socially-aware Routing for Publish-Subscribe in Delay-tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Paolo Costa, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi and Gian Pietro Picco
In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Volume 26, Number 5. June 2008.
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Writing on the Clean Slate: Implementing a Socially-Aware Protocol in Haggle
Mirco Musolesi, Pan Hui, Cecilia Mascolo and Jon Crowcroft
In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2008). Newport Beach, CA. June 2008. IEEE Press. 
[PDF]  [BibTex]

Urban Sensing Systems: Opportunistic or Participatory?
Nicholas T. Lane, Shane B. Eisenman, Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo and Andrew T. Campbell
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOBILE HotMobile'08. Napa Valley, CA, USA. February 2008. ACM Press. 
[PDF]  [BibTex]

[Complete list of my publications]


Some Ads

I am currently involved in the following upcoming scientific events as Program Committee Member. Please consider submitting your work to these conferences and workshops:

- 2nd ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet Scale Measurement (HotPlanet 2010)
- 1st International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects (CONET 2010) at the Cyber-Physical Systems Week 2010 (CPS'10)
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2010)
- 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010) - Work in Progress Session
- 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010)
- 21th International Conference on Databases and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2010)
- 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks at IEEE ICDCS'10

[Past ads]

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Then we have computer science. It is true that software cannot exercise its powers of lightness except through the weight of hardware. But it is the software that gives the orders, acting on the outside world and on machines that exist only as functions of software and evolve so that they can work out ever more complex programs. The second industrial revolution, unlike the first, does not present us with such crushing images as rolling mills and molten steel, but with "bits" in a flow of information traveling along circuits in the form of electronic impulses. The iron machines still exist, but they obey the orders of weightless bits.

Italo Calvino, from Lightness in Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988).


Ideas as made up of several simple ones put together I call Complex; such as are Beauty, Gratitude, a Man, an Army, the Universe.

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690).

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