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CS Colloq: Augustin Chaintreau

Talk Title: Addressing the Mobile Social Data DelugeSpeaker: Dr. Augustin ChaintreauHost: Prof. Ramesh GovindanAbstract: Extracting the full economic and scientific value of the "data deluge", which follows from the information produced and consumed online by individuals, is redefining the frontier of computer science.
Five years after one of the first experiments on mobile social dynamics, the size and scope of data collected or accessed through mobile devices have increased dramatically. In this talk, it is argued that understanding and releasing the potential of mobile social networks is possible provided that three key challenges are addressed: the lack of a guiding theory, the need to design algorithms exploiting social properties, and the presence of entities with competing goals.
Although these broad challenges are likely to exist for some time, this talk presents three examples in which these issues are addressed, using new analytical and algorithmic tools, to improve the efficiency of information dissemination.Bio: A. Chaintreau graduated in 2006 from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. He joined Technicolor (previously known as Thomson) to contribute to the creation of a new research lab on advanced communication platforms, where his research deals with mobile and social dynamics in information systems. Prior to that, he worked at Intel Research Cambridge where he was involved in conducting the first measurement campaign of opportunistic mobile dissemination. During his Ph.D, made under the supervision of Francois Baccelli, he worked with Alcatel Bell, and the IBM Watson T.J. Research Center, on characterizing scalable resource sharing systems in the presence of fairness and reliability constraints.

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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