Ruben Verborgh is a Professor at Ghent University – imec. Ruben’s research is situated in the field of web technology, specifically in Linked Data and the Semantic Web. Rather than focusing on big data, he explores questions of small data, that is, what can we do with the huge amount of small datasets on the…
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Restricted Access. Maarten Vanhoof on Modelling Social Behaviour with Phone Data.
Maarten Vanhoof is a postdoctoral researcher at University College London. He holds bachelor and master degrees in Geography from KU Leuven and the Free University Brussels (VUB), and an MA degree in Cultural Studies from KU Leuven. He spent three years of his PhD at Orange Labs in France, where he worked on mobile phone…
Open Data, Government and the City. A Conversation with Nils Walravens
Nils Walravens is a senior researcher at IMEC and the SMIT research group at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). He obtained a PhD in Media and Communication Studies with a thesis on smart city business models (2016). His research takes a broad perspective on the role of governments in smart cities, exploring among others…