Anastasios Noulas

Anastasios is a Lecturer at the new Data Science Institute at Lancaster University, where he leads projects related to location-based technologies, mobile computing and complex social and technological systems.

Anastasios completed his PhD in 2013 in the Network and Operating Systems group at the Computer Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. His main research interests include human mobility modelling, social network analysis, location-based services and the sharing economy. During his PhD he has published at top-tier conferences and journals in the fields of data mining, online social systems and user behaviour modelling, combining machine learning and complex systems techniques. Prior to joining Lancaster University, Anastasios was also a Data Scientist at Foursquare Labs in New York and Telefonica Research, Madrid. Over the past years he has collaborated with a number of Start-Ups including retail analytics provider PiinPoint, whereas in 2015 he has teamed up with researchers in Cambridge and Belgium to launch the OpenStreetCab project.