Silvia Rossi

Dr. Silvia Rossi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands. Her work focuses on user behavior analysis and system design for immersive multimedia systems like volumetric video in Extended Reality (XR) applications.

She earned her PhD from University College London (UCL) in the Learning and Signal Processing (LASP) group, where she developed clustering algorithms to analyze user navigation patterns in VR systems. Her research bridges human-centric behavioral studies with technical solutions for Quality of Experience (QoE) in 6-DoF VR platforms.

Recent work presented at conferences like IEEE VR and ACM Multimedia explores how spatial constraints affect user movement, open-source social VR systems (VR2Gather), and behavioral data collection tools. She co-organizes key events like the Spring School on Social XR and chairs QoMEX 2025 sessions.

Scientific Recognition:

• 2023 ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis
• 2022 Lombardi Prize for best UCL EEE doctoral thesis

Dr. Rossi's publications highlight trends in XR user modeling, adaptive streaming, and social VR design, with keywords spanning computer science, human-computer interaction, and multimedia engineering. She collaborates extensively with researchers like Pablo Cesar and Irene Viola, and contributes to open-source frameworks in immersive communication.