Cecilia Mascolo is a Professor of Mobile Systems at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the

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, and a

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Education

Mascolo received her Bachelors, Masters and PhD in

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, Italy. Her PhD, completed in 2001, was supervised by .

Career and research

Mascolo serves as co-director of the centre for mobile, wearable systems and augmented intelligence. Her research spans mobile systems, mobile and sensor data analytics,

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for mobile and sensor systems and

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. She is the recipient of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) advanced fellowship (2005-2010) and a European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant (2019-2024). She has an

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of over 60 according to

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. Her recent research on audio based mobile health diagnostics have led to the large scale crowdsourcing data collection for

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sounds. Prior to joining Cambridge in 2008, she worked at

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(UCL) and was an academic visitor at

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Awards and honours

Mascolo ranks in the top 100 of Computer Scientists in the United Kingdom based on her

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and guide2research.com. She was listed by networking women as one of the ''10 Women in Networking/Communications That You Should Know'' in 2016.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mascolo, Cecilia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) University of Bologna alumni Italian computer scientists Italian women computer scientists Italian expatriates in the United Kingdom Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory British computer scientists British women computer scientists Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge