Luca Pappalardo
Senior Researcher at Scuola Normale Superiore
Tuscany, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Pappalardo is a senior researcher and data scientist with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa and over a decade of experience applying big data analytics to human mobility, social networks, well-being monitoring, economic development and sports analytics. He combines strong hands-on programming in Python and Java with deep expertise in data mining and network analysis tools, and contributes to open-source projects such as scikit-mobility where he focuses on code simplification and documentation improvements. His career bridges academia and international research labs—having collaborated with Barabási’s group, Harvard, Skype and institutions across Europe and Brazil—bringing both theoretical rigor and practical, reproducible code to complex mobility problems. Based in Tuscany, he holds concurrent roles at ISTI-CNR, SoBigData and the University of Pisa and recently joined Scuola Normale Superiore as an associate professor. Luca’s work often uncovers non-obvious links between mobility patterns and socio-economic signals, and he pairs mathematical modeling with pragmatic engineering to translate those insights into usable tools. He is also an accomplished musician, holding a piano diploma, which reflects a creative dimension to his analytical profile.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree, Computer science, 110/110 cum laude, Master degree, Computer science, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di Salerno / University of SalernoMaster degree, Computer Science, Master degree, Computer Science at Universidad Rey Juan CarlosDiploma in piano, Music, Diploma in piano, Music at Conservatorio di SalernoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
code-optimization10
package-management10
python10
documentation8
data-analysis6
machine-learning4
data-science4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-mobility/scikit-mobility
May 2019 - Jan 2023
scikit-mobility: mobility analysis in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 223 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Luca's commits focus on removing dependencies, specifically useless and no-longer-needed dependencies, from the project's setup and core files, and also removing parts of a library like `networkx` from the project. These changes suggest a focus on code cleanup, optimization, and simplification of the project's dependencies. Furthermore, the user has implemented small changes in the tutorial notebooks to improve the documentations.
complex-systemsdata-analysismobility-analysisstatisticspython
jonpappalord/DITRAS
Sep 2016 - Mar 2020
DITRAS (DIary-based TRAjectory Simulator), a mathematical model to simulate human mobility
Contributions:37 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 3 years 6 months
simulateagent-based-modelingmobilitysimulationsimulator
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