Cristian Consonni obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Trento in 2019 with a thesis focused on knowledge extraction from links between Wikipedia articles. His research interests span the fields of computational social science, data mining, network science, graph algorithms, machine learning, and AI. Before joining ECAT, he worked at Eurecat - Centre Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya in Barcelona, where he led several EU-funded projects studying social networks, digital communities, and mobility. Cristian is a strong advocate for free software and open knowledge and has been a Wikipedia editor since 2007.
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Consonni, Cristian, David Laniado, and Alberto Montresor. "CycleRank, or there and back again: personalized relevance scores from cyclic paths on directed graphs." Proceedings of the Royal Society A 476.2241 (2020): 20190740.
Consonni, Cristian, David Laniado, and Alberto Montresor. "WikiLinkGraphs: A complete, longitudinal and multi-language dataset of the Wikipedia link networks." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Vol. 13. 2019.
De Toni, Giovanni, Cristian Consonni, and Alberto Montresor. "A general method for estimating the prevalence of influenza-like-symptoms with Wikipedia data." Plos one 16.8 (2021): e0256858.
Consonni, Cristian, et al. "What's Your Value of Travel Time? Collecting Traveler-Centered Mobility Data via Crowdsourcing." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Vol. 15. 2021.
Basile, Silvia, Cristian Consonni, Matteo Manca, and Ludovico Boratto. "Matching user preferences and behavior for mobility." In Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (pp. 141-150), 2020.