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Our research focuses on several technological areas of interest to the Telefonica Group:

 

 

FIXED AND WIRELESS NETWORKING

Ensure the user experience while increasing network performance and minimizing operational cost.

ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS

Are a major source of user generated content, and are responsible for the majority of traffic being exchanged over the Internet and recently over mobile. Hence, it is imperative for a Telco to understand these systems, and the new challenges they pose.

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Optimal performance for a worldwide infrastructure where to develop the services of the future.

USER MODELING AND MACHINE LEARNING

We live in an increasingly digitized world where our physical and digital interactions leave digital footprints. It is through the analysis of these digital footprints that we can learn and model some of the many facets that characterize users.

HCI AND MOBILE COMPUTING

Understanding how, why, where and when mobile users access and consume content via their mobile phones.

MULTIMEDIA ANALYSIS

Research in audio, image and video analysis in a variety of use cases.

SECURITY AND PRIVACY

Focusing on Online Social Networks in particular, and developing solutions that could balance the risk between feature rich services and the associated risk for abuse.

NETWORK ECONOMICS

Understanding the different players in the Internet ecosystem and study its economic fundamentals by taking a data/computation driven approach to study several questions in the broad area of network economics.