My main research topics are the automatic modeling of social influence, the automatic recognition of individual characteristics (e.g., personality traits), and the automatic recognition of human behaviors (e.g., activities of daily living, functional roles of meeting participants, and physical activities) using different sources of data (visual and acoustic data and data obtained by mobile phones, infrared, RFIDs and on-body accelerometers).

From May 2008 to December 2008 I was visitng student at Massachussets Institute of Technology, doing research in the House_n group under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Intille.