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Roberto Yus

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of California, Irvine

Biography

I’m Roberto Yus, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Irvine working with Prof. Sharad Mehrotra in the ISG group. Previously I was a PhD student at the University of Zaragoza under Prof. Eduardo Mena and a visiting scholar at UMBC (working with Profs. Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi) and UCI.

My research interests concern Data Management, Knowledge Representation, the Internet of Things, and Privacy. Specifically semantic and privacy preserving data management in IoT environments.

Interests

  • Data Management
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Internet of Things
  • Privacy

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2016

    University of Zaragoza, Spain

  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2011

    University of Zaragoza, Spain

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of California Irvine, CS Dept. – ISG Group

May 2016 – Present Irvine, California, USA
  • Supervisor: Prof. Sharad Mehrotra
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Researcher

University of California Irvine, CS Dept. – ISG Group

Jan 2015 – May 2015 Irvine, California, USA
  • Host: Prof. Sharad Mehrotra
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Researcher

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, CSEE Dept. – eBiquity Group

Jun 2013 – May 2014 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Hosts: Profs. Anupam Joshi and Tim Finin
 
 
 
 
 

Ph.D. Fellow

University of Zaragoza, CS Dept. – SID Group

Sep 2011 – Apr 2016 Zaragoza, Spain
  • Position funded by the FPI fellowship.
  • Ph.D. Advisor: Eduardo Mena

Projects

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All Internet of Things Data Management Semantic Web Privacy Mobile Computing

Android goes semantic

Semantic Web on smartphones

FaceBlock

Protecting individuals' privacy from eyewear technology

Infoboxer

Semantic tool to help create Wikipedia Infoboxes

MultiCAMBA

Multi-CAMera Broadcasting Assistant

SemIoTic

Facilitating the development of applications in IoT spaces

SHERLOCK

System for Heterogeneous mobilE Requests by Leveraging Ontological and Contextual Knowledge

TIPPERS

Testbed for IoT-based Privacy-Preserving PERvasive Spaces

Recent Publications

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Yiming Lin, Daokun Jiang, Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis, Andrew Chio, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian (2021). LOCATER: Cleaning WiFi Connectivity Datasets for Semantic Localization. Proc. VLDB Endow.

PDF Project

Michael August, Christopher Davison, Mamadou H. Diallo, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Peeyush Gupta, Christopher T. Graves, Shanshan Han, Michael Holstrom, Pramod Khargonekar, Megan Kline, Sharad Mehrotra, Shantanu Sharma, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Guoxi Wang, Roberto Yus (2020). A Privacy-Enabled Platform for COVID-19 Applications. 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2020).

PDF Project Slides

Dave Archer, Michael August, Georgios Bouloukakis, Christopher Davison, Mamadou H Diallo, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Christopher T Graves, Michael Hay, Xi He, Peeter Laud, Steve Lu, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Sharad Mehrotra, Gerome Miklau, Alisa Pankova, Shantanu Sharma, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Guoxi Wang, Roberto Yus (2020). Transitioning from testbeds to ships: an experience study in deploying the TIPPERS Internet of Things platform to the US Navy. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology.

PDF Project

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Recent Talks

(Don’t) Mind the Gap: Bridging the Worlds of People and IoT Devices

The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to improve our lives through different services given the diversity of smart devices and …
Feb 23, 2021 University of Pittsburgh
Project Project

Reconciling Smartness and Privacy in the Internet of Things

Oct 5, 2017 University of California, Irvine
Project Project
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Awards, Achievements, & Highlights

Highlights

Student Travel Award

ISWC (2015,2014), WI-IAT (2015), CollaborateCom (2014) Jan 2014 – Dec 2015

Predoctoral Mobility Grant

Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Jun 2013 – May 2015
Received three times in 2013 (6 months), 2014 (4 months), and 2015 (4 months) for a total of $30K. Used to fund research visits at UMBC and UCI.

FPI Fellowship

Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Sep 2011 – Sep 2015

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