THIAGO HENRIQUE SILVA
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University of Toronto
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55 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 0C9
th.silva@utotonto.ca
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Teaching:
Graduate Courses:
- Data Mining
- Urban and Social Computing
- Network Science
Undergraduate Courses
- Data Mining
- Data Science
- Computation I
- Network Science
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>>> At
the moment, I am only accepting PhD students. Know more about
the Graduate
Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Feel free
to contact me.
I am fortunate to have bright students as collaborators in my
research.
Graduate students:
- Frances
Santos (Ph.D. candidate - Unicamp - coadvisor)
- Jemal Jilo (Ph.D. candidate - advisor)
- Carolina Idehama (Master student - advisor)
- Cesar Vial (Master student - advisor)
- Sergio da Silva Junior (Master student -
advisor)
- Maria Azolin (Master student - advisor)
- Marina Borges (Master student - advisor)
- Mariana Junghans (Master student - coadvisor)
- Paulo Avila (Master student - advisor)
Undergraduate students:
- Gustavo dos Santos
(Computer Engineering)
- John Harrison (Computer
Engineering)
- Thiago Magrin (Information Systems)
I
am also glad to have great partners in several locations, such as:
UFMG (Brazil), INRIA (France), Microsoft Research (USA),
Stanford (USA), Unicamp (Brazil), UCL (UK), uToronto (Canada), UFOP
(Brazil), UFES (Brazil), Ontario Tech (Canada), Telecom Italia
(Italy)
Former graduate students:
- Helen Senefonte (PhD
Student) - Now a Professor at Universidade Estadual de Londrina
- Frances Santos (PhD Student) - Now a AI
manager at Sinch and invited researcher at Unicamp
- Ana Paula Ferreira
(Master student) - Now a PhD student at Robert Koch Institute
(Germany)
- Diego Tsutsumi (Master
student) - Now at IBM Research (Ireland)
- Fernanda Gubert (Master student) - Now a
senior data scientist at C&T
- Juliana Viscenheski (Master student) - Now at
VOLVO (Sweden)
- Lucian Ribas (Master student) -Now a PhD candidate at
UTFPR
- Júlio Borges (Master
student) - Now a Ph.D. student at UTFPR
- Jordan Kobellarz (Master
student) - Now a researcher at UTFPR
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::Helping to
Organize
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::Member
of Program Committee
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::Projects and
Resources
- Tutorial on Natural Language Processing on Social
Media Texts (in PT-BR)
- Website
with codes, datasets, and a publication (pt-br)
- Online Polarization Project
- Website
with data, publications and other resources
- Sentiment Analysis in Urban
Images Project
- Website
with code, data, and other extra material
- Neighbourhood Change Project
- Website
with publications, data, and other info
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::Tools and Demos
- CityHood - An interactive, explainable
recommendation system that suggests cities and neighborhoods
based on user interests.
- REAL-UP: Urban Perceptions
From LBSNs Helping Moving Real-Estate Market to the Next Level
- H3-cities - Allows for the division of any
city, providing a consistent, multi-scalar framework for urban
analysis
- Google Places Enricher 2.0 -
Easier for non-tech-savvy people to use
- Google Places Enricher - A
tool that makes it easy to get and enrich Google Places API
data
- Tool to support user behavior research in WhatsApp
like systems
- An R package for property
extraction and analysis of multiple layers of data
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::Some Publications
(newest first, complete list here ):
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Do Multimodal LLMs See Sentiment?
Neemias
B. da Silva, John Harrison, Rodrigo Minetto, Myriam R.
Delgado, Bogdan Nassu, Thiago H. Silva
Arxiv 2025
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CityHood: An Explainable Travel Recommender
System for Cities and Neighborhoods
Gustavo
Santos, Myriam Delgado,
Daniel Silver, Thiago H Silva
International Conference on Advances in Social Networks
Analysis and Mining 2025
- pdf
- bib
Urban Cultural Signature with Web Data: A Case
Study with Google Places Venues
Fernanda
Gubert, Gustavo Santos,
Myriam Delgado, Thiago H Silva
Journal of Internet Services ans Applications 2025
- pdf - bib
Interest Networks (iNETs) for Cities:
Cross-Platform Insights and Urban Behavior Explanations
Gustavo
Santos, Myriam
Delgado, Thiago H Silva
KDD 2025
- pdf
- bib
Modeling Interest Networks in Urban Areas: A
Comparative Study of Google Places and Foursquare Across
Countries
Gustavo
Santos, Fernanda
Gubert, Myriam Delgado, Thiago H
Silva
Journal of Internet Services and Applications 2025
- pdf
- bib
Modeling Interest Networks in Urban Areas: A
Comparative Study of Google Places and Foursquare Across
Countries
Gustavo
Santos, Fernanda
Gubert, Myriam Delgado, Thiago H
Silva
Journal of Internet Services and Applications 2025
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bib Culture
Fingerprint: Identification of Culturally Similar Urban
Areas Using Google Places Data
Fernanda
R. Gubert, Gustavo Santos, Myriam Delgado, Daniel Silver, Thiago
H Silva
ASONAM 2024, Rende, Italy
- pdf
- bib
Using Graph Neural Networks to Predict Local
Culture
Thiago
H. Silva, Daniel Silver
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
2024
- pdf
- bib
Bubble reachers and uncivil discourse in
polarized online public sphere
Jordan
K Kobellarz, Milos Brocic, Daniel Silver, Thiago H Silva
PLOS ONE 2024
- pdf - bib
REAL-UP: Urban Perceptions From LBSNs Helping
Moving Real-Estate Market to the Next Level
Frances Santos,
Thiago H. Silva, Leandro Villas
WWW 2024 (TheWebConf 24), Singapore
- pdf - bib
Integrating Social Media Data: Venues, Groups and
Activities
Thiago
H. Silva, Mark Fox
Expert Systems with Applications 2024
- pdf
- bib
Regression Performance of Relational Fusion
Networks on Urban Road Networks
Thales Cervi, Ricardo Luders,
Thiago H Silva, Myriam Delgado
Courb 2024
- pdf
- bib
Towards spatiotemporal integration of bus transit
with data-driven approaches
Júlio Borges, Altieris M Peixoto, Thiago H
Silva, Anelise Munaretto, Ricardo Luders
Journal of Internet Services and Applications 2024
- pdf - bib
Predicting Highway Accident Severity in Brazil:
Environmental Factors and Vehicle Features
Júlio Scholz, Yan Pinheiro, Thiago H Silva
Urbcom 2024
- pdf
- bib
Complex Causal Structures of Neighbourhood
Change: Evidence From a Functionalist Model and Yelp Data
Thiago
H. Silva, Daniel Silver
Cities 2023
- pdf
- bib
Higher education’s influence on social networks and
entrepreneurship in Brazil
Michelle
Reddy, Júlio C. Nardelli, Yuri L. Pereira, Marisa
Vasconcelos, Thiago H. Silva, Leonardo B. Oliveira,
Mark Horowitz
Social Network Analysis and Mining 2023
- pdf
- bib
On strategies to help reduce contamination on public
transit: a multilayer network approach
Fernanda Gubert, Priscila Santin, Mauro Fonseca, Anelise
Munaretto, Thiago H Silva
Applied Network Science 2023
- pdf
- bib
PerceptSent - Exploring Subjectivity in a Novel
Dataset for Visual Sentiment Analysis
Cesar R Lopes, Rodrigo Minetto, Myriam R Delgado,
and Thiago H Silva
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2022
- Website
with code, data, and other extra material
- pdf
- bib
(in PT-BR) Processamento de Linguagem Natural em
Textos de Mídias Sociais: Fundamentos, Ferramentas e
Aplicações
Frances A. Santos, Jordan K. Kobellarz, Fábio R.
de Souza, Leandro A. Villas e Thiago H. Silva
Book Chapter - Short Courses WebMedia 2022
- website
with codes, datasets and other info
- pdf - bib
Reaching the bubble may not be enough: news media role
in online political polarization
Jordan K. Kobellarz, Milos Brocic,Alexandre R.
Graeml, Daniel Silver and Thiago
H. Silva
EPJ Data Science 2022
- pdf
- bib
PredicTour: Predicting Mobility Patterns of
Tourists Based on Social Media User's Profiles
Helen Senefonte, Myriam Delgado, Ricardo
Luders, Thiago
Silva
IEEE Access 2022
- pdf - bib
Changing the Scene: applying four models of social
evolution to the scenescape
Daniel Silver, Thiago
H. Silva and Patrick Adler
Wuhan University Journal (Philosophy and Social
Sciences) - 2022 - Chinese
version
- pdf
- bib Should
We Translate? Evaluating Toxicity in Online Comments when
Translating from Portuguese to English
Jordan K. Kobellarz and Thiago
H. Silva
WebMedia 2022
- pdf
- bib
Comparing Global Tourism Flows Measured by Official Census
and Social Sensing
Lucas Skora, Helen Senefonte,
Myriam Delgado, Ricardo Luders, Thiago
Silva
Online Social Networks and Media 2022
- pdf
- bib
A Markov model of urban
evolution: Neighbourhood change as a complex process
Thiago H.
Silva, Daniel Silver
PLOS ONE 2021
- pdf - bib
Automatic Extraction of Urban
Outdoor Perception from Geolocated Free-Texts
Frances A. Santos, Thiago
H. Silva, Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Leandro A. Villas
Social Network Analysis and Mining 2020
- pdf
- bib OutdoorSent:
Sentiment Analysis of Urban Outdoor Images by Using
Semantic and Deep Features
Wyverson
B. de Oliveira, Leyza B. Dorini, Rodrigo Minetto, Thiago
H. Silva
ACM Transactions on Information Systems 2020
- pdf
- bib
Characterization of Public Transit Mobility Patterns of
Different Economic Classes
Priscila Santin, Fernanda Gubert, Mauro Fonseca,
Anelise Munaretto, Thiago Silva
Sustainability 2020
- pdf - bib
Regional Influences on
Tourists Mobility Through the Lens of Social Sensing
Helen Senefonte, Gabriel Frizzo, Myriam Delgado,
Ricardo Luders, Daniel Silver, Thiago
Silva
International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo),
Pisa, Italy. 2020
- pdf - bib
On the Potential of Social
Media Data in Urban Planning: Findings from the Beer Street
in Curitiba, Brazil
Ville Santala, Giovane Costa, Luiz Celso Gomes-Jr,
Tatiana Gadda, Thiago
H. Silva
Planning Practice & Research 2020
- pdf - bib Neutrality May Matter: Sentiment
Analysis in Reviews of Airbnb, Booking, and Couchsurfing in
Brazil and USA
Gustavo Santos, Vinícius F.S. Mota, Fabrício
Benevenuto, Thiago
H. Silva
Social Network Analysis and Mining 2020
- pdf - bib
Uncovering Spatiotemporal and
Semantic Aspects of Tourists Mobility Using Social Sensing
Ana Paula Ferreira, Thiago H Silva, Antonio A F
Loureiro
Elsevier Computer Communications 2020
- pdf - bib
Towards Business
Partnership Recommendation Using User Opinion on Facebook
Diego
P. Tsutsumi, Amanda T. Fenerich and Thiago
H. Silva
Journal
of Internet Services and Applications
2019
- pdf - bib
Parrot Talk: Retweeting
Among Twitter Users During the 2018 Brazilian
Presidential Election
Jordan K. Kobellarz, Alexandre R. Graeml, Michelle Reddy and
Thiago H. Silva
Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Web (WebMedia)
2019
- pdf - bib
StartupBR: Higher Education's
Influence on Social Networks and Entrepreneurship in Brazil
Michelle Reddy, Júlio C. Nardelli, Yuri L. Pereira,
Marisa Vasconcelos, Thiago
H. Silva, Leonardo B. Oliveira, Mark Horowitz
Elsevier Journal of Business Venturing (under review)
2019
- pdf - bib
Urban Computing Leveraging
Location-Based Social Network Data: a Survey
Thiago H. Silva,
Aline Viana, Fabrício Benevenuto, Leandro Villas, Juliana
Salles, Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Daniele Quercia
ACM Computing Surveys 2019
- pdf - bib
Classifying Venue Categories of Unlabeled Check-ins Using
Mobility Patterns
Helen Senefonte, Thiago
H Silva, Ricardo Luders, Myriam Delgado
IEEE Workshop on Urban Computing 2019
- pdf - bib
Uncovering the Perception of
Urban Outdoor Areas Expressed in Social Media
Frances A. Santos, Thiago
H. Silva, Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Leandro A. Villas
IEEE / ACM Web Intelligence 2018
- pdf - bib
Context-aware Vehicle Route
Recommendation Platform: Exploring Open and Crowdsourced
Data
Frances A. Santos, Thiago
H. Silva, Diego Oliveira, Antonio A. F. Loureiro,
Richard A Pazzi, Leandro A. Villas
IEEE International Conference on
Communications 2018
- pdf - bib
Cheers to Untappd!
Preferences for Beer Reflect Cultural Differences Around the
World
Saulo A. de Brito, Ariane L. Baldykowski, Sandro A.
Miczevski, Thiago
H.
Silva
Americas Conference on Information
Systems 2018
- pdf - bib
Extraction and Exploration of
Business Categories Signature
Leonardo de Assis da Silva and Thiago
H
Silva
VLDB Workshop on Big Social Data and Urban Computing
2018
- pdf
- bib
Towards Scalable Mobile
Crowdsensing Through Device-to-Device Communication
Vinícius Mota, Thiago
H. Silva, Daniel Macedo, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane,
José M. Nogueira
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
2018
- pdf - bib
A Large-Scale Study of
Cultural Differences Using Urban Data About Eating and
Drinking Preferences
Thiago H
Silva, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida,
Mirco Musolesi, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
Elsevier Information Systems 2017
- pdf - bib
Gender Matters! Analyzing
Global Cultural Gender Preferences for Venues Using Social
Sensing
Thiago H
Silva, Willi Mueller, Jussara M
Almeida, Antonio A F Loureiro
EPJ Data Science 2017
Supplementary
material
- pdf -
bib
SMAFramework: Urban data integration framework for
mobility analysis in smart cities
Diego Rodrigues, Azzedine Boukerch, Thiago
H. Silva, Antonio Loureiro, Leandro Villas
ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and
Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems 2017
- pdf - bib Towards a Sustainable
People-Centric Sensing
Frances A. Santos, Thiago
H. Silva, Torsten Braun, Antonio A. F. Loureiro,
Leandro A. Villas
IEEE International Conference on Communications 2017
- pdf - bib
Users in the Urban Sensing
Process: Challenges and Research Opportunities
Thiago H.
Silva, Clayson Celes, João Neto,
Vinícius Mota, Felipe Cunha, Ana Ferreira, Anna Ribeiro,
Pedro Vaz de Melo, Jussara Almeida, Antonio
Loureiro
Book
title: Pervasive Computing: Next Generation
Platforms for Intelligent Data Collection. 2016.
- pdf
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Sensing in the Collaborative Internet of Things
João B Neto, Thiago
H. Silva, Renato M Assunção, Raquel A Mini, Antonio
A F Loureiro
Journal Sensors. 2015
- pdf
- bib Computação
Urbana: Técnicas para o Estudo de Sociedades com Redes de
Sensoriamento Participativo
Thiago H. Silva,
Antonio A F Loureiro
Jornada de Atualização em Informática - JAI CSBC. 2015.
>> slides do
curso >>códigos
(This course was invited to be presented again in the 2016
edition)
- pdf - bib Revealing
the City that We Cannot See
Thiago H
Silva, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida,
Juliana Salles, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT). 2014.
Special issue on Foundations of Social Computing.
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pdf - bib
You are What you Eat (and
Drink): Identifying Cultural Boundaries by Analyzing Food
& Drink Habits in Foursquare
Thiago H
Silva, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida,
Mirco Musolesi, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
Int. AAAI Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media
(ICWSM'14). Ann Arbor, USA. 2014.
- pdf - bib
Participatory Sensor Networks
as Sensing Layers
Thiago H
Silva, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida,
Aline Viana, Juliana Sales, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
IEEE Conference on Social Computing and Networking
(SocialCom'14)
- pdf -
bib Large
Scale Study of City Dynamics and Urban Social Behavior Using
Participatory Sensing
Thiago H
Silva, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida,
Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
IEEE Wireless Communications - Special issue: Mobile
Social Networks. 2014.
- pdf
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Social Media as a Source of
Sensing to Study City Dynamics and Urban Social Behavior:
Approaches, Models, and Opportunities.
Thiago
H Silva,
Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida, Antonio A. F.
Loureiro.
Book title: Ubiquitous Social Media Analysis. Ed.
Springer. 2013.
- pdf - bib
Traffic Condition Is More
Than Colored Lines on a Map: Characterization of Waze Alerts.
Thiago H
Silva, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Aline C. Viana,
Jussara M. Almeida, Juliana Salles, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
Springer Int. Conf. on Social Informatics
(SocInfo'13). Kyoto, Japan. 2013.
- pdf - bib A
comparison of Foursquare and Instagram to the Study of City
Dynamics and Urban Social Behavior.
Thiago H Silva, Pedro O.
S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida, Juliana Salles, Antonio
A. F. Loureiro.
ACM SIGKDD Int. Work. on Urban Computing (UrbComp'13).
Chicago, USA. 2013.
- pdf
- bib Challenges
and Opportunities on the Large Scale Study of City Dynamics
Using Participatory Sensing.
Thiago H Silva, Pedro O.
S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
IEEE Symp. on Computers and Communications
(ISCC'13). Split, Croatia. 2013.
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pdf - bib
A picture of Instagram is
Worth More than a Thousand Words: Workload Characterization
and Application.
Thiago H Silva, Pedro O.
S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida, Juliana Salles, Antonio
A. F. Loureiro.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing in
Sensor Systems (DCOSS'13). Cambridge, USA. 2013.
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pdf - bib Visualizing
the Invisible Image of Cities. Best
Paper Award
Thiago H Silva, Pedro O.
S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida, Juliana Salles, Antonio
A. F. Loureiro.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Cyber, Physical
and Social Computing. Besancon, France. 2012.
- I
have to confess that the book Invisible Cities influenciated me
quite a lot in this work, thanks Italo Calvino :)
- The text of my thesis entitled
Large Scale Study of City Dynamics and Urban Social Behavior
Using Participatory Sensor Networks is here
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