He is a visiting scientist at Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK, and a former visiting scientist at Yahoo Labs and at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research at Indiana University where he was applying computational methods to model social behavior in online platforms. His research embraces the creative energy of a range of disciplines across technology, computational social science, data visualization, and urban informatics. He is passionate about building new mapping tools that capture the sensorial layers of a city, and designing computational frameworks to model aesthetics, creativity, and figurative language in social media.