I am a Ph.D. in Computer Science fascinated by 
cities, cultures, and people

THIAGO HENRIQUE SILVA


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Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Av. 7 de Setembro 3165 - 80230-901
CPGEI room 07
Curitiba PR Brasil

thiagoh@utfpr(.)edu(.)br
Remove the parenthesis :)


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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


News:
   
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>>> I am looking for PhD and Master students. Know more about the Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering. If you are interested, 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)
  • Priscila Santin (Ph.D. candidate  - coadvisor)
  • Carolina Idehama (Master student  - advisor)
  • Fernanda Gubert (Master student - advisor)
  • Juliana Viscenheski (Master student - advisor)
  • Sergio da Silva Junior (Master student - advisor)
  • Maria Azolin (Master student - advisor)
  • Mariana Junghans (Master student - coadvisor)
  • William Souza (Master student  - advisor)
Undergraduate students:
  • Alexandre Amorim (Computer Engineering)
  • 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
  • Ana Paula Ferreira (Master student) - Now a PhD student at Robert Koch Institute (Germany)
  • Diego Tsutsumi (Master student) - Now at IBM Research (Ireland)
  • 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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::Tools and Resources
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::Some Publications (newest first, complete list here ):

  • pdf - 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
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  • 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 - bib 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.

  • 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  -  bib 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.  
  • 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.
  • 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


Past/Other research


::Computer Networks problems

In a past not so distant (during my Master), I researched about P2P networks for live video streaming:
  • pdf  - bib Live streaming of user generated videos: Workload characterization and content delivery architectures.
    Thiago H Silva, Jussara M. Almeida, Dorgival Guedes.
    Computer Networks. 2011.

  • pdf - bib Analysis of P2P Streaming Based on the Characterization of Live User-Generated Video. 
    Thiago H Silva, Jussara M. Almeida, Dorgival Guedes.
    IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC'10). Cape Town, South Africa. 2010.

  • pdf - bib Caracterização do Comportamento dos Espectadores em Transmissões de Vídeo ao Vivo Geradas por Usuários.
    Thiago H Silva, Jussara M. Almeida, Dorgival Guedes.
    Simp. Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. Recife PE Brasil. 2009. 

::Other Ubicomp/Urban Computing problems:
  • pdf  -  bib A picture of actual Ubicomp research exploring publications from important events in the field.
    Thiago H Silva, Clayson Celes, Vinicius F. S. Mota, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
    Journal of Applied Computing Research. 2012.

  • pdf - bib Overview of Ubicomp Research Based on Scientific Publications. Best Paper Award
    Thiago H Silva, Clayson Celes, Vinicius F. S. Mota, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
    Brazilian Symp. on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (SBCUP'12). Curitiba, Brazil. 2012.

  • pdf - bib On the Use of Participatory Sensing to Better Understand City Dynamics.
    Thiago H Silva, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida, Antonio A. F. Loureiro.
    ACM Ubicomp Int. Work. SenCity: Uncovering the Hidden Pulse of a City. Zurich, Switzerland. 2013.
     
::Papers in Portuguese (Diverse topics)
  • pdf - bib Redes de Interesse: comparando o Google Places e Foursquare na captura da escolha de usuários por áreas urbanas. (in portuguese)
    Gustavo Santos, Fernanda Gubert, Myriam Delgado, Thiago H Silva. 
    Courb 2024

  • pdf - bib Criação de Assinatura Cultural de Áreas Urbanas com Estabelecimentos Geolocalizados na Web. (in portuguese)
    Gustavo Santos, Fernanda Gubert, Myriam Delgado, Daniel Silver, Thiago H Silva. 
    Courb 2024
  • pdf - bib Medição, análise e modelagem de tempos de ida-e-volta na Internet. (in portuguese)
    Everthon Valadao, Assahaf Gecary; Thiago H Silva; Dorgival Guedes, Ricardo Duarte. 
    Simp. Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. Gramado RS - Brasil. 2010.

  • pdf - bib Introduzindo Tolerância a Interrupção em Redes Ad Hoc Móveis para Cenários de Emergência. (in portuguese)
    Vinicius F. S. Mota, Thiago H Silva, Jose M. Nogueira. 
    Simp. Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos. Recife PE Brasil. 2009.

  • pdf - bib Uma Fotografia do Instagram: Caracterização e Aplicação. (in portuguese) 2nd Best Paper Award
    Thiago H Silva, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida, Antonio A. F. Loureiro. 
    Brazilian Symp. on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC'13), Brasília, Brazil. 2013.

  • pdf - bib Uncovering Properties in Participatory Sensor Networks.
    Thiago H Silva, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo, Jussara M. Almeida, Antonio A. F. Loureiro. 
    4th ACM Int. Work. on Hot Topics in Planet-scale Measurement. Lake District, UK. 2012.


::Other selected collaborations:

Study of scientific collaboration network:
  • pdf - bib On the analysis of the collaboration network of the Brazilian symposium on computer networks and distributed systems.
    Guilherme Maia, Daniel Guidoni, Thiago H Silva, Fernanda Souza, Pedro Vaz de Melo, Cesar Soares, Jussara Almeida, Antonio Loureiro.
    Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. 2013.