The 3rd edition of the Data Research Meet Up by MagIC will bring together the Data Science research community, creating a space for sharing knowledge, discussing emerging challenges, and strengthening connections across disciplines.
This year’s keynote speaker is Professor Esteban Moro, a leading scholar in computational social science and Full Professor at Northeastern University.
Keynote Address: Understanding Urban Resilience Through Behavioral Mobility Data
Speaker: Professor Esteban Moro
Northeastern University – Social Urban Networks Lab, Network Science Institute
As part of the morning program, we are honored to welcome Professor Esteban Moro, an internationally recognized scholar whose work bridges data science, network science, and the study of human behavior in urban and socio-economic environments.
In his keynote address, Professor Moro will explore how cities and economies function as complex systems shaped by millions of interdependent decisions about where individuals live, work, and move. Drawing on recent advances in large-scale behavioral data analysis, he will examine how mobility traces, digital interactions, and labor market dynamics can be observed at population scale to reveal the underlying structures that drive resilience and inequality.
His presentation will highlight empirical research that integrates data from mobile phones, financial transactions, and social media with network and complexity-science models to understand how disruptive shocks – such as the pandemic or technological transformations – reshape urban systems. He will discuss how behavioral patterns shed light on the adaptive capacity of cities, the spatial organization of labor markets, and the constraints that hinder equitable access to opportunities.
By grounding these insights in real-world applications, Professor Moro will demonstrate how data-driven methodologies can inform the design of more resilient, equitable, and adaptive urban systems. Attendees will gain a scientifically rigorous understanding of how behavioral mobility data can support evidence-based decision-making in complex socio-technical environments.
09h30 – Registration
10h00 – Welcome notes
10h20 – Keynote: Understanding Urban Resilience Through Behavioral Mobility Data
11h20 – Coffee break & networking
11h40 – Roundtable: Complexity Sciences as the new frontier
Moderator: Professor Flávio Pinheiro | Assistant Professor, NOVA IMS
12h40 – Lunch & Poster session
14h30 – MagIC’s Research in Data Science
15h30 – Coffee break & networking
16h00 – MagIC’s Research in Data Science
17h00 – Awards ceremony
17h20 – Wrap-up and final words
The Poster Session features research contributions from PhD students at NOVA IMS, providing an opportunity to showcase ongoing work and engage with the scientific community. The list of posters and authors is presented below.
"Where Users Go, Testing Should Follow: Data-Driven Prioritization"
By Anna Somova, PhD Student
"Forecasting meets Portfolio Theory: A Bibliometric Approach to Decision-Making under Uncertainty"
By Bernardo Dias Raimundo, PhD Student
"Banking on Research: Who leads? Who follows? Who Cares?"
By Carolina Vasconcelos, PhD Student
"Human vs AI: How Perceived Advertising Authorship Influences Perceptions and Behaviors in Social Media - a PLS-SEM Study"
By Diogo de Bernardes Diogo, PhD Student
"Measuring 15-Minute Access to Transit Hubs with Graph Embeddings: Evidence from Lisbon"
By Khristina Filonchik, PhD Student
"Analyzing engagement in virtual teams: A cross-cultural study on videoconference and virtual reality"
By Pedro Manuel Barreiras, PhD Student
"From Human to Machine: Evidence that Brazilian Investors Attribute Equal Importance to Analysts and Artificial Intelligence"
By Rodrigo dos Reis Maia, PhD Student
"Comparative analysis of pre and post COVID secondary education exam results in Portugal"
By Samuel Santos, PhD Student
"Improving nearshore bathymetry mapping through spatially adaptive machine learning",
By Telmo Geraldes Dias, PhD Student
"Do you have ‘AI friends’? A New Research Model for Artificial Intelligence–Based Well-Being Chatbot Engagement: Survey Study"
By Yanrong Yang, PhD Student
"WAVe: Word-Aligned Verification of Synthetic Speech for ASR"
by Yuriy Perezhohin, PhD Student
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This event is supported by national funds through FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), under the project - UID/04152/2025 - Centro de Investigação em Gestão de Informação (MagIC)/NOVA IMS - https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/04152/2025 (2025-01-01/2028-12-31) and UID/PRR/04152/2025 https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/PRR/04152/2025 (2025-01-01/ 2026-06-30)
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The Data Research Meetup by MagIC will be held at the Auditorium A120, Almada Negreiros College, NOVA IMS (Campolide Campus).
Transports
Metro: S. Sebastião (Linha Azul e Vermelha); Praça de Espanha (Linha Azul)
Carris: 701, 713, 716, 726, 742, 746, 756, 758, 770