Biography

I’m Roberto Yus, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. I’m leading the DAMS (DAta Management & Semantics) Research Group at UMBC. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Irvine working with Prof. Sharad Mehrotra in the ISG group.

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

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Interests

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

Education

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, 2021

    University of California, Irvine

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2016

    University of Zaragoza, Spain

Projects

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PrivacyLens

Framework aimed at discovering, collecting, and analyzing privacy policies of smart devices using NLP and ML algorithms, to provide …

SmartSpec

SmartSPEC is a smart space simulator and data generator that creates customizable smart space datasets using semantic models of spaces, …

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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Jun Ma, Aziz Boubaker, Sabrine Azaiez, Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis (2025). DEMO: Web-CozyBench - A Web-Based Platform to Benchmark Thermal Comfort Provision using Digital Twins. IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp).

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Jun Ma, Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis (2025). DigiGuide: A DT-based Occupant Guiding System for Optimizing Comfort and Energy Consumption. IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp).

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Dylan Conklin, Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus (2025). BL(u)E CRAB: A User-Centric Framework for Identifying Suspicious Bluetooth Trackers. 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom).

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Recent Talks

Data Privacy 101

Data Protection can be viewed as the combination of Data Security, which focuses on protecting data from internal/external attackers, …
Jun 29, 2023 Los Alamos National Lab

(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 …
Jul 21, 2022 Data Works MD
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Awards, Achievements, & Highlights

Highlights

2nd place INCS-CoE Sandpit Challenge on Digital Trust 2022

INCS-CoE May 2022
This is an international collaboration between University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), and Keio University Tokyο (Keio).

Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at PerCom 2022

PerCom 2022 Mar 2022
For our paper SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-Driven Simulations.

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

Contact

  • ryus@umbc.edu
  • 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250
  • Information Technology and Engineering (ITE) Building