Giovanni Mauro was born in 1995 in Catanzaro (CZ). He holds a BSc in Computer Science from University of Pisa (during which he won a one-year Erasmus+ grant at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and an MSc in Data Science from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech. Before joining the Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, he worked as a Data Engineer and cooperated with KDD-lab at ISTI-CNR for projects regarding Sport Analytics and Human Mobility Analysis. Currently, his main research interests are the development of algorithms for understanding and predicting human mobility flows and trajectories, as well as the study of the segregation mechanisms that take place in a city. Besides that, he is a Research Associate at ISTI-CNR and collaborates with the Networks Research Unit at IMT Lucca. He is the Community Activist for the Task Sustainable Cities for Citizens of the research infrastructure SoBigData.

Soccer, tennis, sea, journeys, and motorcycling are his main passions.