Luca Maria Aiello

About

Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Computational Social Science researcher. Formerly at Nokia Bell Lab, at Yahoo! Labs, Indiana University, and University of Turin.

Experience

• Visiting Professor at Aalto University
  May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  4-months sabbatical visit

• IT-Universitetet i København (Full-time · 5 yrs 6 mos)
  • Full Professor
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Associate Professor
    Jan 2021 - Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Senior Research Scientist at Bell Labs
  Jun 2016 - Jan 2021 · 4 yrs 8 mos

  Computational social science and urban informatics in the Social Dynamics team.

• Yahoo (4 yrs 6 mos)
  • Research Scientist
    Apr 2015 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Advertisement relevance for Yahoo Gemini. Tumblr analytics and recommendation systems.

  • Research Scientist
    Jan 2012 - Apr 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Analysis of the evolution of online social systems, mainly through the lens of Computational Social Science and with Big Data analytics. Work to improve the end user's experience with recommendation algorithms. Close collaboration with Flickr on the domain of social recommendations. Some of my research topics are: social bonding, homophily, dynamics of online attention and popularity, information spreading, social status, link prediction, and conversational norms.

• Visiting Scholar at Indiana University
  Nov 2010 - Jun 2011 · 8 mos