Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues

Assistant Professor

Research

Current Interests

  • Data mining techniques for text and graphs
  • Web link analysis and web information retrieval
  • Social network analysis and visualization
  • Applied machine learning
  • User-centred design of systems
  • Interplay between social sciences and web technologies

Projects

  • NodeXL from the Social Media Research Foundation (funded by Microsoft External Research, 2008-2011) - Interactive graph analysis and visualization toolkit for MS Excel 2007 / 2010 - download.

    Demo with the US Senate 2007 dataset:

    Publications Publications: Smith2009, Hansen2009, Rodrigues2010, Hansen2010, Rodrigues 2011.

     

  • POPSTAR - Public OPinion and Sentiment Tracking, Analysis and Research (funded by FCT, Mar. 2012-to date).
  • TwitterEcho II (funded by PT/SAPO) - Platform for focused crawling of the Twittosphere. This platform is being developed at FEUP in collaboration with SAPO Labs.

    Publications Related publicationsBosnjak2012.

  • REACTION - Retrieval, Extraction, and Aggregation Computing Technology for Integrating and Organizing News (funded by FCT, UT Austin - Portugal Program, Oct. 2010-to date).

    Publications Related publicationsBosnjak2012.

  • LUL - Living Usability Lab (funded by QREN, 2010-to date) - Development and live usability evaluation of technologies and services to support healthy, productive and active citizens.

    Publications Related publicationsPires2010, Pires2011, Teixeira2012.

Past Projects

  • Social Footprints (Microsoft Research, 2007-09) - Analysis of social interactions in online communities and mining community-generated content. 
  • Research Desktop (Microsoft Research, 2007-09) - Conceptual design of a desktop environment that augments the standard desktop to enable new ways of working and managing resources.The Activities feature is now freely available through Project Colletta.
  • Community Buzz (Microsoft Research, 2006-07) - Conceptual design and development of a service for analysis of user interactions and content exchanged among participants of the online discussions groups.
  • InSite Live (Microsoft Research, 2006-07) - Modelling the Web link structure, with the aim of improving search and navigation of Web sites.
  • MASTS - Measurement at All Scales in Time and Space, funded by EPSRC (Research Fellow, UCL, 2004-05).
  • CANDLE - Collaborative And Network Distributed Learning Environment, funded by the European Union FP5 / IST (Researcher, UCL, 2000-03)
  • COBIP - Telework Co-ordination services for co-Operative BusIness Processes, funded by the Funded by the European Commission DG XIII / TAP (Researcher, INESC Porto, 1998-99).
  • SCREEN - Service Creation Engineering ENvironment, funded by the European Union (Developer, INESC Porto, 1998-99).

Post-Doctoral Researchers

  • Joel Perdiz Arrais, "Applying graph theory for improved identification of disease-associated genes", IEETA / UAveiro, starting 2011 (co-supervision with José Luís Oliveira).

 PhD Students and Researcher Assistants

  • Cláudio Barradas, "Information Technology & Enterprise Integration for the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation ", PRODEI, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, started 2010 (co-supervisor; supervisor: João José Pinto Ferreira).
  • Carlos Figueiredo, Doctoral Program in Digital Media, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering and UT Austin, started 2010.
  • Arian Pasquali, Research Assistant, TwitterEcho II project, SAPO Labs grant.
  • Matko Bošnjak, Research Assistant, REACTION project, FCT BI grant.
  • Nuno Baldaia, Research Assistant, REACTION project, FCT BI grant.

MSc Students

  • Andrija Čajić, MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering (Erasmus programme).
  • Bruno Aguiar, MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering and Fraunhofer Portugal (co-supervisor: Liliana Ferreira).
  • Jorge Moreira, MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering (co-supervisor: Cláudio Barradas).
  • Ricardo Ferreira, MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering (co-supervisor; supervisor: Rosaldo Rossetti).
  • Susana Milheiro, MM, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering.
  • Tiago Silva, MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering (co-supervisor; supervisor: Ana Aguiar).
  • Tito Miguel Costa, MM, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering.

Alumni and Interns

2010-2011

  • Luís Gonçalves, "Middleware for Facebook: filtering and evaluation", MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, and Shortcut (INOVA Ria), 2011.
  • Eduardo Oliveira, "TwitterEcho crawler focado distribuído para a Twittosfera portuguesa", MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, and SAPO Labs, 2010-11 (co-supervisor: Luis Sarmento) .
  • José Martins, "Modeling User Influence and Expertise for News Sources in Social Media", MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, and SAPO Labs, 2010-11 (co-supervisor: Luis Sarmento).
  • Pedro Tenreiro, "The mobile phone as a platform to share personal life-stories for older adults", MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, and Fraunhofer Portugal, 2010-11 (co-supervisor: Paula Alexandra Silva).
  • Tiago Boldt Sousa, "HTML5 for cross-platform development of Social Web applications", MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, and Fraunhofer Portugal, 2010-11 (co-supervisor: Paula Alexandra Silva).
  • Prize Vitor Teixeira, "Services Access via Speech, Gesture and Multi-touch", ISCTE, and Microsoft Language Development Center, 2010-11 (co-supervisor; supervisor: Miguel Sales Dias).

2009-2010

  • Prize Carlos Pires, "Personal Assistant for Improving the Social Life of Mobility-Impared Citizens", MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, and Microsoft Language Development Center, 2009-10 (co-supervisor: Miguel Sales Dias).
  • Daniel Sousa, "Characterization of Social Ties in Online Communities", MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, 2009-10 (co-supervisor: Luis Sarmento).
  • Prize Fernando Pinto, "Multimodal Access to Social Networks", MIEIC, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, and Microsoft Language Development Center, 2009-10 (co-supervisor: Miguel Sales Dias).

2006-2009

  • Elena Zheleva, "Statistical Models of Music-listening Sessions in Social Media", PhD Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge, May-Jul. 2009 (internship co-advisor; advisor: Natasa Milic-Frayling).
  • Max Wilson, "User Study to Evaluate the Research Desktop Activity Management Tool", PhD Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Aug.-Oct. 2008 (internship advisor).
  • Blaz Fortuna, "Mining Social Media and Web Link Analysis", PhD Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Sep. 2006–Feb. 2007 (internship co-advisor; advisor: Natasa Milic-Frayling).

2000-2002

  • Emilio Martinez, "Web-based Tool for Browsing XML Topic Maps", M.Sc. Telecoms, University College London, 2001-02 (co-supervisor; supervisor: Lionel Sacks).
  • Amit Parmar, "Management of e‑Learning Metadata Documents in native XML databases", M.Sc. IT, University College London, 2000-01 (co-supervisor; supervisor: Lionel Sacks).
  • Yaseen Chattun, "Search Engine for e‑Learning Metadata Documents", M.Sc. IT, University College London, 2000-01 (co-supervisor; supervisor: Lionel Sacks).

Overview

Current Interests

Projects

Team and Alumni

 

Research Positions

Our research group is accepting PhD candidates.Contact me for further information.

 

Highlights

MSc Alumni Fernando Pinto, Carlos Pires and Vitor Teixeira receive awards for their theses work:

 

Prémio de Inovação Tecnológica "Engº Jaime Filipe" 2010

 

2ª menção honrosa do Prémio "Ser Capaz  Inves-tigação e Tecnologia 2011"

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SAPO Notícias launched "O mundo visto daqui" infographics series featuring our news networks:

 

 

This work is a collaboration between researchers from SAPO Labs | UP and SAPO Notícias.

More information about the networks can be found in my blog.

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NodeXL

 

NodeXL: over 100K downloads!