Daniel Gatica-Perez

Daniel Gatica-Perez is a Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE). His research is associated with the Idiap Research Institute, where he contributes to areas such as computational social media. He is involved in teaching and supervising doctoral students, including those working on projects related to social media analysis. His profile includes multiple administrative roles at EPFL, such as Director of the Social Computing Group and Member of the Doctoral Program Committee for Digital Humanities. He is also a member of the Human Research Ethics Committee at EPFL.

Daniel Gatica-Perez is a researcher in Social Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Social Media, Participatory AI, and Multimedia. His work focuses on leveraging large-scale data from smartphones and social media to understand human behavior, personality, and social interactions. He has developed methods for automatic analysis of nonverbal behavior, stress detection, and routine discovery using probabilistic models. His research also explores the use of multimedia data for personality classification and the creation of rich mobile datasets. Gatica-Perez's contributions span from modeling social dynamics to analyzing video content for insights into human traits and group behavior.