About me

Hi all!

I am Daniele Rama, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin, working with Prof. Rossano Schifanella. My research leverages methods from complex systems analysis and computational social science to study online user behaviors relying on large-scale digital data scources.

Previously, I was a PhD student in Modeling and Data Science at the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Turin. During my doctoral studies, I have also been a Research collaborator at the Wikimedia Foundation, and visited the dlab @EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) advised by Prof. Robert West. Before joining academia, I worked as a Junior Researcher at the ISI Foundation in Turin.

My background is in Physics of complex systems, which I studied in Turin and Trento.

Projects

• coming soon

Publications

• A Large Scale Study of Reader Interactions with Images on Wikipedia
  Daniele Rama, Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Rossano Schifanella
  Published: EPJ Data Science, Volume 11, Article number: 1(2022)
  (Also presented at IC2S2 ‘21 Conference on Computational Social Science)
  paper

• Facebook Ads as a Demographic Tool to Measure the Urban-Rural Divide
  Daniele Rama, Yelena Mejova, Michele Tizzoni, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Ingmar Weber
  Published: WWW ‘20 Proc. of The World Wide Web Conference
  (Also presented at IC2S2 ‘19 Conference on Computational Social Science)
  paper

Previous experience

• Sept 2021 - Dec 2021, dlab @EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), Visiting doctoral student (advisor Prof. Robert West)
• From Aug 2020, Wikimedia Foundation (remote), Research collaborator
• May 2020 - July 2020, Wikimedia Foundation (remote), Research intern (mentor Miriam Redi)
• Nov 2018 - Oct 2019, ISI Foundation (Turin, Italy), Junior researcher
• Jan 2018 - Oct 2018, ISI Foundation (Turin, Italy), MSc thesis intern (advisor Michele Tizzoni)
• Oct 2015 - Mar 2016, FBK and CIMeC (Trento, Italy), BSc thesis intern (advisor Prof. Renzo Antolini)

Education

• MSc in Physics of Complex Systems, 2018
  University of Turin
• BSc in Physics, 2016
  University of Trento

Other activities

Service

I served as a reviewer for the following conferences and workshops:

• TheWebConf ‘22, ‘23
• CIKM ‘22
• WikiWorkshop ‘21, ‘22, ‘23

Conferences and schools

• July 2023, IC2S2, Copenhagen (Denmark)
• July 2022, Summer school on Text mining and NLP, Istanbul (Turkey)
• July 2021, IC2S2, ETH Zurich (online)
• May 2021, PAA Annual Meeting, online
• June 2019, Complexity72h Workshop, Lucca (Italy)
• July 2017, Summer School on Computational Social Science, Sardinia (Italy)