Idiap Research Institute and the School of Engineering at EPFL invite applications for the directorship of Idiap. The successful candidate will also hold a faculty position as full professor at EPFL School of Engineering.
Social Computing
The integration of theories and models from informatics and the social sciences makes it possible to detect, analyze, and interpret human and social behavior. The work in the Social Computing Group integrates theories and models from ubiquitous computing, social media, machine learning, and social sciences, to sense, analyze, and interpret human and social behavior in everyday life, and to create devices and systems that support interaction and communication. Current research includes methods for urban computing from phone and mobile social network data, behavioral analysis of social video, ubiquitous sensing of face-to-face interaction, and crowdsourcing.
Group News
A new pan-European doctoral academy has the ambition to become a reference in AI education.
Citizens and communities can support the creation of research resources that are more diverse and relevant to the public.
Idiap researchers published the results of a study showing that analyzing pictures and audio from voluntarily recorded videos thanks to an app helps to determine with more objectivity the context of alcohol drinking among young people.
The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2020 presented its 10-Year Impact Award to a paper on mobile data analysis by the Social Computing Group.
Group Job Openings
Our group is regularly posting job openings ranging from internships to researcher positions. To check the opportunities currently available or to submit a speculative applications use the link below.Our group is regularly posting job openings ranging from internships to researcher positions. To check the opportunities currently available or to submit a speculative applications use the link below.
- Social Computing
- PhD student and postdoc positions in social computing and human-centered AI at Idiap, Switzerland F/H
- Speculative Application for the Social Computing group F/H
- Idiap Fellowship for Female Researchers F/H
- Idiap Academic Visitor Program F/H
- Valais-Wallis Ambition initiative for PhDs and Postdocs F/H
Current Group Members
The group is led by Daniel Gatica-Perez.

GATICA-PEREZ, Daniel
(Senior Research Scientist with Academic Title)
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MEEGAHAPOLA, lakmal (Buddika)
(Research Assistant)
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SAJADMANESH, Sina
(Research Assistant)
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ALONSO DEL BARRIO, David
(Research Intern)

KAMMOUN, Nathan
(Research Intern)

KIM, Haeeun
(Research Intern)
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GUIDO, Maya
(Research Intern)

LI, Junhong
(Research Intern)

LIN, Yuanhui
(Research Intern)

BOUTON-BESSAC, Emma
(Research Intern)
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Alumni
- ARAN, Oya
- AVCI, Umut
- BIEL TRES, Joan Isaac
- CAN, Gulcan
- CHÁVEZ-MARTÍNEZ, Gilberto
- CORREA, Salvador
- DO, Trinh-Minh-Tri
- FARRAHI, Katayoun
- FINNERTY, Ailbhe
- GARG, Nikhil
- HU, Rui
- JAYAGOPI, Dinesh Babu
- MÄDER, Aurel (Ruben)
- MARCOS RAMIRO, Alvaro
- MASSÉ, Benoit
- MEDINA RIOS, Luis Emmanuel
- MONTOLIU COLAS, Raúl
- MURALIDHAR, Skanda
- NEGOESCU, Radu-Andrei
- NGUYEN, Laurent
- OKADA, Shogo
- PHAN, Trung (Thanh)
- POZO PEREZ, Ada Laura
- RADUCANU, Bogdan
- ROMAN RANGEL, Edgar Francisco
- SAINT-SUPERY, Santiago
- SANTANI, Darshan
- THATTAGUPPA CHITTARANJAN, Gokul
- THOMAS, Chinchu
- VLASENKO, Bogdan
- YELA BELLO, Jenny Paola
- ZHANG, Dong
Active Research Grants
- 2000LAKES - 2000LAKES: alpine research and citizen science toward the microbial conservation of high-mountain lakes in Switzerland
- AI4MEDIA - A European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy
- ICARUS - Innovative AppRoach to Urban Security
- NATAI - The Nature of Artificial Intelligence
- WENET - The Internet of US
Past Research Grants
- ADEL - Automatic Detection of Leadership from Voice and Body
- ADIVA - Automatic analysis of verbal and non-verbal behavior and provision of feedback in video selection interviews
- ADVANCE - ADVANCe - Augmented dialogue tool based on verbal and non-verbal behavior computing
- CODICES - Automatic Analysis of Mexican Codex Collections
- DCROWDLENS - Crowdsourcing the Assessment of Deep Visual Explanations for Subjective Variables
- DOMOCARE - DomoCare - A new Home Care Preventive Protocol
- DUSK2DAWN - Characterizing Youth Nightlife Spaces, Activities, and Drinks
- HEALTHVLOGGING - Health vlogging: Social media culture and the (re)shaping of health-related practices by Youtubers
- HYBRID - Hybrid Recommender System
- LOIS - Leveraging on-device smartphone inference to address resistance to participate in social surveys
- LS-CONTEXT - Large-Scale Human Context Discovery from Mobile Phones
- MAAYA - Multimedia Analysis and Access for Documentation and Decipherment of Maya Epigraphy
- MCSC - Mi Casa es Su Casa
- MIRROR - Mobile Data to Improve Decision Making in African Cities
- MULTI_CROWD - Tracing Swiss Heritage Speakers' Identities in North America
- NOVICOM - Automatic Analysis of Group Conversations via Visual Cues in Non-Verbal Communication
- NTT - NISHA - NTT Idiap Social Behaviour Analysis Initiative
- RISE - Rich Interpersonal Skill analytics for rEcruitment
- SENSECITYVITY - Mobile Sensing, Urban Awareness, and Collective Action
- SNACK - Bites’n’Bits: Understanding Eating Routines in Context
- SOCIALFOOD - Social Food and People: Characterizing Food Consumption Behaviour on Visual Social Media
- SONVB - Sensing and Analysing Organizational Nonverbal Behavior
- SWISKO - Swiss-Korean project to develop and integrate new wearable sensors into the existing DomoSafety ambient sensor system.
- TOT - Trust Over Time
- UBIMPRESSED - UBImpressed: Ubiquitous First Impressions and Ubiquitous Awareness
- VALAIS+ - Valais+ Une plateforme pour mieux connaître l’espace de vie du canton
- YOUBLOG - YouBlog
- YOUTH@NIGHT - A multi-disciplinary multi-method study of young people's outgoing and drinking behaviors