Dr. Yan Huang
University of North Texas
Computer Science and Engineering
(950) 369-8353
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Education

PhD, University of Minnesota, 2003.
Major: Computer and Information Sciences
Dissertation Title: Mining Co-location Patterns from Large Spatial Datasets
BS, Beijing University, 1997.
Major: Computer Science

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary
Professor, University of North Texas. (September 1, 2014 – Present).
Associate Professor, University of North Texas. (September 1, 2009August 31, 2014).
Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. (September 1, 2003August 31, 2009).

Development Activities Attended

Faculty Fellowship,"Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES)," Drexel University Provost Office, United States of America. (20192021).

Awards and Honors

University of North Texas Leadership Fellow, University of North Texas. (20162016).

Selected to participate in Leadership in Science Policy Institute, Computing Research Association (CRA). (20132013).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
CSCE 2900, Special Problems in Computer Science and Engineering, 1 course.
CSCE 3110, Data Structures and Algorithms, 2 courses.
CSCE 4350, Introduction to Database Systems Design, 5 courses.
CSCE 4890, Directed Study, 7 courses.
CSCE 4950, Special Problems in Computer Science and Engineering, 1 course.
CSCE 5218, Deep Learning, 3 courses.
CSCE 5350, Database Systems I, 6 courses.
CSCE 5380, Data Mining, 8 courses.
CSCE 5900, Special Problems, 5 courses.
CSCE 5933, Topics in Computer Science and Engineering, 2 courses.
CSCE 5934, Directed Study, 13 courses.
CSCE 5950, Master's Thesis, 27 courses.
CSCE 6350, Advanced Topics in Database Design, 8 courses.
CSCE 6900, Special Problems, 2 courses.
CSCE 6933, Advanced Topics in Computer Science and Engineering, 1 course.
CSCE 6940, Individual Research, 29 courses.
CSCE 6950, Doctoral Dissertation, 37 courses.
CSCI 4350, Introduction to Database Systems Design, 1 course.
CSCI 5330, Topics in Computer Science, 1 course.
CSCI 5890, Directed Study, 1 course.
CSCI 5950, Master's Thesis, 2 courses.
CSCI 6330, Advanced Topics in Computer Science, 1 course.
CSCI 6940, Individual Research, 3 courses.

Directed Student Learning

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023 – Present).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023 – Present).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023 – Present).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023 – Present).

Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (2023 – Present).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2021 – Present).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2017 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"Spatial temporal analysis of air quality data from low cost sensors," Computer Science and Engineering. (20232024).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (20232023).

Postdoctoral Research Supervision, Computer Science and Engineering. (20232023).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (May 20182023).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (20132022).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20152021).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20122021).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20152020).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (20132020).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (20172019).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20152019).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20132019).

Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (20172018).

Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (20172018).

Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (20172018).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20142018).

Supervised Research, Computer Science and Engineering. (2017).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20162017).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20152017).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20142017).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20132017).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20122017).

Major Professor,"Location Estimation and Geo-Correlated Information Trends," Computer Science and Engineering. (20122017).

Other,"Data-Driven Decision-Making for Large-Scale Dynamical Systems Under Uncertainty," Computer Science and Engineering. (2016).

Supervised Research, Computer Science and Engineering. (20142016).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20122015).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20102015).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20102015).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20092015).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20062015).

Major Professor,"Smartphone Based Household Travel Survey - A Literature Review, an App, and a Pilot Survey," Computer Science and Engineering. (May 2015).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20122014).

Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (20122014).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20102014).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20082014).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (20072014).

Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (20132013).

Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (20132013).

Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (20132013).

Supervised Research, Computer Science and Engineering. (20122013).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20092013).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20082013).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (20052013).

Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (20102012).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (20092012).

Major Professor,"GPS CaPPture: A System for GPS Trajectory Collection, Processing, and Destination Prediction," Computer Science and Engineering. (20042012).

Internship Advisor, Computer Science and Engineering. (March 2012May 2012).

Other,"Physical-Layer Network Coding for MIMO Systems," Computer Science and Engineering. (2011).

Major Professor,"Exploring Privacy in Location-Based Services Using Cryptographic Protocols," Computer Science and Engineering. (20072011).

Major Professor,"Towards a Data-Type-Based Real Time Geospatial Data Stream Management System," Computer Science and Engineering. (20062011).

Major Professor,"A Wireless Traffic Surveillance System Using Video Analytics," Computer Science and Engineering. (May 2011).

Other,"Design and Implementation of Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring Applications," Computer Science and Engineering. (2010).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (20072009).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (20042006).

Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (20032006).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (20032005).

Awards and Honors

Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities. (20052005).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter
Ahmadi, M., Huang, Y., John, K. (2017). Application of spatio-temporal clustering for predicting ground-level ozone pollution. Advances in Geocomputation. 153--167. Springer, Cham.
Ahmadi, M., Huang, Y., John, K. (2017). Application of spatio-temporal clustering for predicting ground-level ozone pollution. Advances in Geocomputation. 153--167. Springer, Cham.
Huang, Y., Griffin, T., Lompo, S. (2009). Intelligent system for locating, labeling, and logging (isl 3). Opportunities and Challenges for Next-Generation Applied Intelligence. 167--173. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Shekhar, S., Zhang, P., Huang, Y., Vatsavai, R. (2004). Trends in Spatial Data Mining. "Data Mining: Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions", H. Kargupta, A. Joshi, K. Sivakumar, and Y. Yesha (editors). AAAI/MIT Press.
Shekhar, S., Huang, Y., Wu, W., Lu, C. T., Chawla, S. (2001). What's Spatial about Spatial Data Mining: Three Case Studies. Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications. R. Grossman, C. Kamath, P. Kegelmeyer, V. Kumar, R. Namburu (eds.). Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Conference Proceeding
Yadav, S., Le, T., Dong, S., Fan, H., Yang, Q., Qiu, C., Li, X., Huang, Y. A New Simulation Platform For Learning-Empowered Distributed Sensing. SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2024.
Feng, Y., Meng, Z., Clemmer, C., Fan, H., Huang, Y. (2023). A Multi-granularity Decade-Long Geo-Tagged Twitter Dataset for Spatial Computing. ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL).
Ghanbarzadeh, S., Palangi, H., Huang, Y., Moreno, R. C., Khanpour, H. (2023). Improving the Reusability of Pre-trained Language Models in Real-world Applications. IEEE 24th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI). 40--45.
Liu, X., Liu, X., Yi, Z., Zhou, X., Le, T., Zhang, L., Huang, Y., Yang, Q., Fan, H. (2023). PlanarTrack: A Large-scale Challenging Benchmark for Planar Object Tracking. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
Xiao, Z., Huang, Y., Blanco, E. (2023). Context Helps Determine Spatial Knowledge from Tweets. Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL). 149--160.
Locke, W., Lokhmachev, N., Huang, Y., Li, X. (2023). Radio map estimation with deep dual path autoencoders and skip connection learning. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC).
Ghanbarzadeh, S., Huang, Y., Palangi, H., Cruz Moreno, R., Khanpour, H. (2023). Gender-tuning: Empowering Fine-tuning for Debiasing Pre-trained Language Models. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 5448--5458.
Myznikov, P., Huang, Y. (2020). A New Method for Hierarchical Image Segmentation from Visual Designs. 2020 54th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS). 1--6.
Xie, D., Zhong, X., Yang, Q., Huang, Y. (2019). Comprehensive cooperative deep deterministic policy gradients for multi-agent systems in unstable environment. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications. 11006, 110060K.
Zhou, Y., Huang, Y. (2019). Place Representation Based Bike Demand Prediction. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 1577-1586.
Shen, B., Cao, B., Zhao, Y., Zuo, H., Zheng, W., Huang, Y. (2019). Roo: Route Planning Algorithm for Ride Sharing Systems on Large-Scale Road Networks. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp). 1--8.
Zhou, Y., Huang, Y., McGlynn, J., Han, A. (2019). Trust Inference for Rideshare Through Co-Training on Social Media Data. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). 2532-2541.
Magdy, A., Zhou, X., Huang, Y. (2018). 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Local Events and News (LENS 2017): Redondo Beach, California, USA-November 7, 2017. SIGSPATIAL Special. 9(3), 28--29. ACM.
Zhou, Y., Huang, Y., (2018). Context Aware Flow Prediction of Bike Sharing Systems. IEEE BigData.
Zhou, Y., Huang, Y., (2018). DeepMove: Learning Place Representations through Large Scale Movement Data. IEEE BigData.
Pang, J., Tian, C., Huang, Y., Buckles, B., Mirzaei, A. (2017). Atvis: A New Transit Visualization System. Advances in Geocomputation. 85–96. Springer, Cham.
Nguyen, P., Huang, Y., Trampier, J. R. (2017). Leveraging Spatial Community Information in Location Recognition in Tweets. Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Analytics for Local Events and News. 4.
Zhou, Y., Huang, Y., McGlynn, J., Han, A. (2017). Who Will You Share a Ride With: Factors that Influence Trust of Potential Rideshare Partners. Other.
Liu, Z., Huang, Y. (2016). Closeness and structure of friends help to estimate user locations. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. 33–48.
Liu, Z., Huang, Y., Trampier, J. R. (2016). LEDS: local event discovery and summarization from tweets. Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 53.
Liu, Z., Huang, Y., Trampier, J. R. (2016). Spatiotemporal topic association detection on tweets. Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 28-38.
Liu, Z., Huang, Y. (2016). Where are You Tweeting?: A Context and User Movement Based Approach. Proceedings of the 25th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. 1949–1952.
Huang, Y., Liu, Z., Nguyen, P. (2015). Location-based event search in social texts. Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2015 International Conference on. 668–672.
Cheng, G., Wan, Y., Buckles, B., Huang, Y. (2014). An introduction to Markov logic networks and application in video activity analysis. Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), 2014 International Conference on. 1–7.
Liu, Z., Huang, Y. (2014). Community detection from location-tagged networks. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 525–528.
Cheng, G., Huang, Y., Mirzaei, A., Buckles, B., Yang, H. (2014). Video-based automatic transit vehicle ingress/egress counting using trajectory clustering. Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Proceedings, 2014 IEEE. 827–832.
Sun, P., Huang, Y., Zhang, C. (2013). Cluster-by: An efficient clustering operator in emergency management database systems. International Conference on Web-Age Information Management. 152–164.
Sun, W., Chen, C., Zheng, B., Chen, C., Zhu, L., Liu, W., Huang, Y. (2013). Merged aggregate nearest neighbor query processing in road networks. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Information & Knowledge Management. 2243–2248.
Liu, Z., Huang, Y. (2013). Mining co-locations under uncertainty. International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. 429–446.
Tian, C., Huang, Y., Liu, Z., Bastani, F., Jin, R. (2013). Noah: a dynamic ridesharing system. Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. 985–988.
Wang, S., Huang, Y., Wang, X. S. (2013). Regional co-locations of arbitrary shapes. International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. 19–37.
Jiang, K., Zhu, K. Q., Huang, Y., Ma, X. (2013). Watermarking road maps against crop and merge attacks. Proceedings of the first ACM workshop on Information hiding and multimedia security. 221–230.
Chen, K., Sun, W., Tu, C., Chen, C., Huang, Y. (2012). Aggregate keyword routing in spatial database. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 430--433.
Liu, W., Sun, W., Chen, C., Huang, Y., Jing, Y., Chen, K. (2012). Circle of friend query in geo-social networks. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. 126--137.
Huang, Y., Powell, J. (2012). Detecting regions of disequilibrium in taxi services under uncertainty. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 139--148.
Song, R., Lu, W., Sun, W., Huang, Y., Chen, C. (2012). Quick map matching using multi-core cpus. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 605--608.
Wang, S., Wang, X. S., Huang, Y. (2012). Tracking the dynamic distribution of people in indoor space with noisy partitioning sensors. Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on. 202--211.
Chen, S., Huang, Y., Namuduri, K. (2011). A factor graph based dynamic spectrum allocation approach for cognitive network. Wireless communications and networking conference (WCNC), 2011 IEEE. 850--855.
Bastani, F., Huang, Y., Xie, X., Powell, J. (2011). A greener transportation mode: flexible routes discovery from GPS trajectory data. Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 405--408.
Ruan, N., Jin, R., Huang, Y. (2011). Distance preserving graph simplification. Data Mining (ICDM), 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on. 1200--1205.
Liu, J., Tian, Q., Huang, Y., Du, L., Wang, L. (2011). Extraction of the corn planting area based on multi-temporal HJ-1 satellite data. Geoinformatics, 2011 19th International Conference on. 1--4.
Huang, Y., Chen, C. (2011). Privacy leakage in two-party group nearest neighbor queries. Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), 2011 IEEE/IFIP 41st International Conference on. 297--300.
Griffin, T., Huang, Y., Seals, S. (2011). Routing-based map matching for extracting routes from GPS trajectories. proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research \& Applications. 24.
Shen, C., Huang, Y., Powell, J. (2011). The design of a benchmark for geo-stream management systems. Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 409--412.
Powell, J., Huang, Y., Bastani, F., Ji, M. (2011). Towards reducing taxicab cruising time using spatio-temporal profitability maps. International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. 242--260.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y. (2010). Low Cost Region Detection from Distributed Sensor Observations. Proc. of 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management.
Vishwanathan, R., Huang, Y. (2010). Privacy Preserving Group Nearest Neighbour Queries in Location-based Services using Cryptographic Techniques. Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference. 1-5.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y. (2010). Quering Streaming Point Clusters as Regions. Proc. of 1st International Workshop on GeoStreaming.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y. (2010). Querying streaming point clusters as regions. Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming. 43--50.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y., Mihalcea, R., Cuellar, H. (2009). A Natural Language Interface for Crime-related Spatial Queries. Proc. of IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI). 164-166.
Vishwanathan, R., Huang, Y. (2009). A Two-level Protocol to Answer Private Location-based Queries. Proc. of IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI). 149-154.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y., Griffin, T. (2009). Demo Paper: Querying Geospatial Data Streams in SECONDO.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y. (2009). Demo Paper: Querying Geospatial Stream in SECONDO. Proc. of The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS ). 544-545.
Harrington, B., Huang, Y., Yang, J., Li, X. (2009). Energy Efficient Map Interpolation for Sensor Fields Using Kriging. 8(5), 622-635. IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing.
Huang, Y., Griffin, T., Lompo, S. (2009). Intelligent System for Locating, Labeling, and Logging (ISL3). Proc. of Twenty Second International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems IEA-AIE. 167-173.
Huang, Y., Zhang, C. (2009). Interval-Based Nearest Neighbor Queries Over Sliding Windows from Trajectory Data. Proc. of The 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM). 212-221.
Lou, Y., Zhang, C., Zheng, Y., Xie, X., Wang, W., Huang, Y. (2009). Map-Matching for Low-Sampling-Rate GPS Trajectories. Proc. of The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS). 352-361.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y., Griffin, T. (2009). Querying geospatial data streams in SECONDO. Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 544--545.
Chen, S., Huang, Y. (2009). Recognizing Human Activities from Multi-Modal Sensors. Proc. of IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI). 220-222.
Yang, J., Zhang, C., Li, X., Huang, Y., Fu, S., Acevedo, M. (2008). An Environmental Monitoring System with Integrated Wired and Wireless Sensors. Proc. of International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications. 224-236.
Telang, A., Chakravarthy, S., Huang, Y. (2008). Information Integration Across Heterogeneous Sources: Where Do We Stand and How to Proceed?. Proc. of 14th International Conference on Management of Data. 186-197.
Huang, Y., Chen, C., Dong, P. (2008). Modeling Herds and Their Evolvements from Trajectory Data. Proc. of 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GI Science).
Huang, Y., Zhang, C. (2008). New Data Types and Operations to Support Geo-streams. Proc. of 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GI Science). 106-118.
Chen, S., Huang, Y., Zhang, C. (2008). Toward a real and remote wireless sensor network testbed. International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. 385--396.
Chen, S., Huang, Y., Zhang, C. (2008). Towards A Real and Remote Wireless Sensor Network Testbed. Proc. of International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications. 385-396.
Li, X., Huang, Y. (2007). A language and a visual interface to specify complex spatial patterns. Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 656--663.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y. (2007). A Two Round Reporting Approach to Energy Efficient Interpolation of Sensor Fields. Proc. of 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). 656-663.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y. (2007). A Two Round Reporting Approach to Energy Efficient Interpolation of Sensor Fields. Proc. of 10th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD). 130-147.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y. (2007). Cluster By: A New SQL Extension for Spatial Data Aggregation. Proc. of 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. 53-56.
Huang, Y., Zhang, L., Zhang, P. (2006). Finding Sequential Patterns from a Massive Number of Spatio-Temporal Events. Proc. of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 633-637.
Huang, Y., Zhang, L., Zhang, P. (2006). Finding sequential patterns from massive number of spatio-temporal events. Proceedings of the 2006 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. 634--638.
Huang, Y., Pei, J., Xiong, H. (2006). On The Relationships Between Clustering and Spatial Co-location Pattern Mining. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI). 513-522.
Griffin, T., Huang, Y. (2005). A decision tree classification model to automate trip purpose derivation. The Proceedings of the ISCA 18th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering. 44--49.
Huang, Y., Zhang, L., Yu, P. (2005). Can We Apply Projection Based Frequent Pattern Mining Paradigm to Spatial Co-location Mining?. Proc. of the 9th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). 719-725.
Harrington, B., Huang, Y. (2005). In-network Surface Simplification for Sensor Fields. Proc. of The 13th ACM Intl. Symp. on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS). 41-50.
Huang, Y., Harrington, B., Dsouza, N., Brazile, R. P. (2005). Material science image content querying: a SQL integrated map algebra approach. Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Scientific and statistical database management. 283–292.
Huang, Y., Harrington, B., Dsouza, N., Brazile, R. (2005). Querying the Content of Images in Material Science: An Integration of SQL and Map Algebra. 17th Internatial Conference on Scientific and Statistical Data Management (SSDBM). 283-292.
Xiong, H., Shekhar, S., Huang, Y., Kumar, V., Ma, X., Yoo, J. (2004). A Framework for Discovering Co-location Patterns in Data Sets with Extended Spatial Objects. Proc. of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). 121-132.
Zhang, P., Huang, Y., Shekhar, S., Kumar, V. (2003). Correlation Analysis of Spatial Time Series Datasets: A Filter-and-Refine Approach. Proc. of the 7th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). 563-575.
Lu, Q., Huang, Y., Shekhar, S. (2003). Evacuation Planning: A Capacity Constrained Routing Approach. Proc. of the First NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2003). 291-307.
Zhang, P., Huang, Y., Shekhar, S., Kumar, V. (2003). Exploiting Spatial Autocorrelation to Efficiently Process Correlation-Based Similarity Queries. Proc. of the 8th Intl. Symp. on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD). 449-468.
Huang, Y., Xiong, H., Shekhar, S., Pei, J. (2003). Mining Confident Co-location Rules without A Support Threshold. Proc. of the 18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC). 497-501.
Shekhar, S., Zhang, P., Vatsavai, R. R., Huang, Y. (2003). Research accomplishments and issues on spatial data mining. White paper of the Geospatial Visualization and Knowledge Discovery Workshop, Lansdowne, Virginia.
Zhang, P., Shekhar, S., Huang, Y., Kumar, V. (2003). Spatial Cone Tree: An Index Structure for Correlation-based Similarity Queries on Spatial Time Series International Workshop on Next Generatio Geospatial Information.
Zhang, P., Shekhar, S., Huang, Y., Kumar, V. (2003). Spatial cone tree: An index structure for correlation-based similarity queries on spatial time series data. the Proc. of the Int’l Workshop on Next Generation Geospatial Information.
Shekhar, S., Huang, Y., Djugash, J. (2002). Dictionary Design Algorithms for Vector Map Compression. In Proc. of IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC). 471.
Shekhar, S., Huang, Y., Djugash, J., Zhou, C. (2002). Vector Map Compression: A Clustering Approach. Proc. of The 10th ACM Intl. Symp. on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS). 74-80.
Shekhar, S., Huang, Y. (2001). Discovering Spatial Co-location Patterns: a Summary of Results. Proc. of 7th Intl. Symp. on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD). 236-256.
Shekhar, S., Huang, Y. (2001). Discovery of spatial co-location patterns. International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases.
Shekhar, S., Huang, Y., Xiong, H. (2001). Performance evaluation of co-location miner. The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'01).
Editor
Shekar, S., Agouris, P., Vatsavai, R. R., Huang, Y., Stefanidis, A., Bhaduri, B., Chandola, V. (2021). The 29th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems: conference report.
Zhang, H., Huang, Y., Thill, J., Guo, D., Liu, Y., Chen, B., Xu, W. (2021). The 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Safety and Resilience: EM-GIS 2019 workshop report. SIGSPATIAL Special. 12(3), 43--45. ACM New York, NY, USA.
Lu, C., Wang, F., Trajcevski, G., Huang, Y., Newsam, S., Xiong, L. (2020). The 28th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems: conference report. SIGSPATIAL Special. 12(3), 3--6. ACM New York, NY, USA.
Magdy, A., Zhou, X., Zhao, L., Huang, Y. (2019). 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL workshop on analytics for local events and news. SIGSPATIAL Special. 10(3), 21--22. ACM.
Encyclopedia Article
Huang, Y., Zhang, L. (2007). Spatiotemporal Sequential Patterns Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science. 1049-1054. Springer.
Journal Article
Zhang, M., Zhou, X., Li, L., Liu, Z., Trajcevski, G., Huang, Y., Zhou, X. (2023). A Universal Scheme for Partitioned Dynamic Shortest Path Index. Other.
Zuo, H., Cao, B., Zhao, Y., Shen, B., Zheng, W., Huang, Y. (2021). High-capacity ride-sharing via shortest path clustering on large road networks. Other. 1--26. Springer US.
McGlynn, J., Zhou, Y., Han, A., Huang, Y. (2019). Present, Endorsed, and Active: Instagram Cues that Predict Trust. Communication Research Reports. 36(4), 338-348. Routledge.
Zhang, H., Huang, Y., Thill, J., Guo, D., Liu, Y. (2018). Guest editorial: special issue on spatial computing in emergency management. GeoInformatica. 22(2), 307--309. Springer US.
Shen, B., Huang, Y., Zhao, Y. (2016). Dynamic ridesharing. SIGSPATIAL Special. 7(3), 3–10. ACM.
Zhang, H., Huang, Y., Thill, J. (2016). EM-GIS 2015 workshop report: the first ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (Seattle, Washington, USA-November 3, 2015). SIGSPATIAL Special. 7(3), 35–35. ACM.
Huang, Y., Chen, X. (2016). IWCTS 2015 workshop report: the Eighth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science Seattle, Washington, USA-November 3, 2015. SIGSPATIAL Special. 8(1), 55--55. ACM.
Cheng, G., Huang, Y., Wan, Y., Buckles, B. (2015). Exploring temporal structure of trajectory components for action recognition. International Journal of Intelligent Systems. 30(2), 99–119.
Ahmadi, M., Huang, Y., John, K. (2015). Predicting Hourly Ozone Pollution in Dallas-Fort Worth Area Using Spatio-Temporal Clustering.
Ahmadi, M., Huang, Y., John, K. (2015). Predicting Hourly Ozone Pollution in Dallas-Fort Worth Area Using Spatio-Temporal Clustering.
Wan, Y., Huang, Y., Buckles, B. (2014). Camera calibration and vehicle tracking: Highway traffic video analytics. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 44, 202–213. Pergamon.
Huang, Y., Bastani, F., Jin, R., Wang, X. S. (2014). Large scale real-time ridesharing with service guarantee on road networks. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 7(14), 2017–2028. VLDB Endowment.
Kong, L., Liu, Z., Huang, Y. (2014). Spot: Locating social media users based on social network context. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 7(13), 1681–1684. VLDB Endowment.
Zhu, Kai Jiang Kenny Q,, Huang, Y., Ma, X. (2013). Watermarking Road Maps against Crop and Merge Attacks.
Ma, X., Zhang, C., Shekhar, S., Huang, Y., Xiong, H. (2011). On multi-type reverse nearest neighbor search. Data & Knowledge Engineering. 70(11), 955--983. North-Holland.
Zhang, C. (2011). Toward a data-type-based real time geospatial data stream management system. University of North Texas.
LI, L., SUN, T., LIU, Z., REN, D., Huang, Y., CHEN, X. (2010). Balance analgesic efficacy of oxycodone and acetaminophen tablets in management of trauma pain in emergency room [J]. Other. 23, 014.
Yang, J., Zhang, C., Li, X., Huang, Y., Fu, S., Acevedo, M. F. (2010). Integration of wireless sensor networks in environmental monitoring cyber infrastructure. Wireless Networks. 16(4), 1091--1108. Springer US.
Zhang, C., Huang, Y. (2009). Cloaking Locations for Anonymous Location Based Services: A hybrid Approach. 13(2), 159-182.
Harrington, B., Huang, Y., Yang, J., Li, X. (2009). Energy efficient map interpolation for sensor fields using Kriging. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Huang, Y., Zhang, L., Zhang, P. (2008). A framework for mining sequential patterns from spatio-temporal event data sets. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 20(4), 433--448. IEEE.
Huang, Y., Zhang, L., Zhang, P. (2008). A Framework for Mining Sequential Patterns from Spatio-Temporal Event Datasets. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 20(4), 433-448.
Huang, Y., Zhang, P., Zhang, C. (2008). On the relationships between clustering and spatial co-location pattern mining. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. 17(01), 55--70. World Scientific Publishing Company.
Huang, Y., Pei, J., Xiong, H. (2006). Co-location Mining with Rare Spatial Features Journal of GeoInformatica. 10(3), 239-260.
Huang, Y., Pei, J., Xiong, H. (2006). Mining co-location patterns with rare events from spatial data sets. GeoInformatica. 10(3), 239--260. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Huang, Y., Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (2004). Discovering Co-location Patterns from Spatial Datasets: A General Approach. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 16(12), 1472-1485.
Huang, Y., Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (2004). Discovering colocation patterns from spatial data sets: a general approach. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 16(12), 1472--1485. IEEE.
Shekhar, S., Zhang, P., Huang, Y., Vatsavai, R. R. (2003). Spatial data mining.
Xu, B., Yu, W., Chen, T., Huang, Y. (2003). Three-dimensional technology for apparel mass customization: Part II: Human body modeling from unorganized range data. Other. 94(1-2), 81--91. Taylor \& Francis Group.
Shekhar, S., Zhang, P., Huang, Y., Vatsavai, R. R. (2003). What’s Special about Spatial Data Mining?.
Xu, B., Huang, Y., Yu, W., Chen, T. (2002). Body scanning and modeling for custom fit garments. Other. 2(2), 1--11.
Shekhar, S., Huang, Y., Han, J., Chawla, S., Gopal, S. (2000). Categorization of spatial data mining techniques. Other.
Other
Yan, Z., Giatrakos, N., Katsikaros, V. (2011). Advances in spatial and temporal databases. Springer, Berlin.
Shekhar, S., Zhang, P., Huang, Y., Vatsavai, R. (2003). Trends in Spatial Data Mining. As a chapter in Data Mining: Next Generation Challenges and Future Directions, H. Kargupta, A. Joshi, K. Sivakumar, and Y. Yesha. MIT Press.
Ph.D. Thesis
Huang, Y. (2014). Accessibility and non-work destination choice: A microscopic analysis of GPS travel data. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA.
Griffin, T. W. (2012). GPS CaPPture: A system for GPS trajectory collection, processing, and destination prediction. University of North Texas.
Vishwanathan, R. (2011). Exploring privacy in location-based services using cryptographic protocols. University of North Texas.
Popular Press Article
Huang, Y., Zhang, P., Zhang, C. (2008). On The Relationships Between Clustering and Spatial Co-location Pattern Mining International. 17(1), 513-522. Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT).
Technical Report
Huang, Y., Buckles, B. (2012). Low cost wireless network camera sensors for traffic monitoring.

Presentations Given

Paper

McGlynn, J. (Author & Presenter), Zhou, Y. (Author), Han, A. (Author), Huang, Y. (Author), International Communication Association, Judging the risks of rideshare: Communication factors from Instagram profiles that influence judgments of trust, Mobile Communication and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic, Czech Republic. (20182018).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Li, X. (Principal), Luyen, H. T. (Co-Principal), Huang, Y. (Co-Principal), Derryberry, R. T. (Supporting), "Empowering Directional Communications with Hybrid Beamforming and Deep Learning," Sponsored by Army Research Lab/Northeastern University, Federal, $1694437 Funded. (March 16, 2023March 15, 2024).
Huang, Y. (Principal), Li, X. (Co-Principal), Yang, Q. (Co-Principal), Fan, H. (Co-Principal), Qiu, C. (Co-Principal), Wei, Y. (Co-Principal), Baba, A. I. (Supporting), "Learning Empowered Distributed Sensing," Sponsored by Army Research Lab/Northeastern University, Federal, $2069324 Funded. (March 16, 2023March 15, 2024).
Huang, Y. (Principal), Yang, Q. (Co-Principal), "Export Controlled at Award - Title Removed second phase," Sponsored by KRI at Northeastern, Office of Naval Research, Federal, $200000 Funded. (June 1, 2020December 31, 2021).
Huang, Y. (Principal), Yang, Q. (Co-Principal), Zhong, X. (Co-Principal), "Export Controlled at Award - Title removed," Sponsored by KRI at Northeastern, Office of Naval Research, Federal, $300000 Funded. (May 1, 2018September 30, 2020).
Geol, A. (Principal), Huang, Y. (Supporting), "BD Spokes: SPOKE: SOUTH: Collaborative: Using Big Data for Environmental Sustainability: Big Data + AI Technology = Accessible, Usable, Useful Knowledge!," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $1000000 Funded. (October 2016September 2019).
Huang, Y. (Principal), "Geotagging Social Media for Enhanced Location-based Search," Sponsored by Department of Defense, Federal, $450000 Funded. (June 2013December 2017).
Huang, Y. (Principal), "U.S.-Based Student Support to Attend ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, Funded. (August 2014August 2015).
Grant - Service
Huang, Y. (Principal), "TX DOT Research Technical Assistance Panels in Support of the TX DOT Research Program," Sponsored by Texas Department of Transporation (TXDoT), State, $1500 Funded. (20042010).
Sponsored Research
Huang, Y. (Principal), "Evaluation of Existing Smartphone Applications and Data Needs for Travel Surveys," Sponsored by Texas Department of Transportation, State, $164230 Funded. (August 2012August 2014).
Huang, Y. (Principal), "III: Small: AegisDB: Integrated Real-Time Geo-Stream Processing and Monitoring System: A Data-Type-Based Approach," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $450562 Funded. (September 2010August 2014).
Huang, Y. (Other), "RET Site: Research Experiences for Teachers in Sensor Networks," Sponsored by NSF, Federal, $500000 Funded. (June 2011May 2014).
Huang, Y. (Principal), "REU Supplement for III: Small: AegisDB: Integrated Real-Time Geo-Stream Processing and Monitoring System: A Data-Type-Based Approach," Sponsored by NSF, Federal, $15265 Funded. (September 2010August 2013).
Uncategorized
Huang, Y. (Principal), "Low Cost Wireless Network Camera Sensors for Data Collection and Traffic Monitoring," Sponsored by Texas Department of Transporation (TXDoT), $138178. (20092011).
Huang, Y. (Principal), "SGER: Detecting and Maintaining Evolving Regions from Spatially and Temporally Varying Observations for Monitoring and Alerting," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, $90000. (20082010).
Huang, Y. (Principal), "CRI: IAD Infrastructure for Environmental Monitoring and Modeling using Large-Scale Sensor Networks," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, $250000. (20072010).
Huang, Y. (Co-Principal), "CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Engaging Local Governments, Teachers and Students in CI for Environmental Monitoring and Modeling," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, $250000. (20062009).
Huang, Y. (Principal), "Energy Efficient Map Interpolation from Sensor Fields," Sponsored by Texas Advanced Research Program, $100000. (20062009).
Huang, Y. (Principal), "Query the Content of Material Science Images: an Integration of SQL and Map Algebra," Sponsored by Oak Ridge National Lab, $10000. (20042005).

Awards and Honors

Regents Professor, University of Texas. (February 10, 2021 – Present).

10-year Impact Runner Up, ACM SIGSPAITAL. (November 1, 2020 – Present).

Best Research Paper, IEEE 24th InternationalConference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI). (20232023).

Decker Scholar, University of North Texas. (20192021).

10-Year Impact Award, ACM SIGSPATIAL. (20192019).

ACM Distinguished Scientist, Associate of Computing Machinery (ACM). (20192019).

Best Paper Runner Up, IEEE Int. Conf. on Big Data and Smart Computing. (20192019).

Best Paper Runner Up, ACM SIGSPATIAL. (20102010).

Best Paper Runner Up, IEEE MDM Conference. (20102010).

Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference. (20092009).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Selection Committee of Distinguished Engineering Lecture Series. (2024 – Present).

Committee Member, Award Committee. (20232024).

Committee Chair, Faculty Search Subcommittee. (20232024).

Committee Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee. (20232024).

Committee Member, Research and Creativity Awards. (20232024).

Committee Chair, TT Faculty Search Committee. (20212022).

Committee Chair, R1 Our Way. (August 20192022).

Committee Member, Digital Strategy and Innovation Advisory Committee. (January 2019January 2022).

Committee Member, Academic Integrity Committee. (September 20202021).

Other, Graduate Enrollment Process Improvement Committee. (February 2019May 2020).

Member, ASEE Engineering Research Council. (September 2016January 2020).

Committee Member, Research Visioning Committee. (March 2019December 2019).

Committee Member, Vice Provost for Faculty Success Search Committee. (March 2019December 2019).

Committee Member, Research Space Adjudication Subcommittee. (August 1, 2018August 31, 2019).

Committee Member, Regent Professor Evaluation Committee. (September 2016August 2019).

Committee Member, Research Services Post-award Search Committee,. (20182018).

Committee Member, CENG Dean Search Committee. (January 2018August 2018).

Committee Member, Compliance Vice President Search Committee. (September 2017August 2018).

Committee Member, Murchison Professor Search Commitee. (September 2017August 2018).

Committee Member, Biomedical Engineering Facility Planning Committee, College of Engineering. (September 2016August 2018).

Chairperson, Graduate Council, College of Engineering. (September 2016August 2018).

Member, Information Science Expedited Tenure and Promotion Review Committee. (March 2018April 2018).

University Senate Service, Faculty Senate Graduate Council. (September 2016August 2017).

Committee Member, Planning and Implementation Committee for a Potential Data Informatics and Analytics Institute. (September 2016August 2017).

Task Force Member, Visioning Task Force for a Potential Data Science and Analytics Institute. (September 2016August 2017).

Workshop Organizer, Writing the Dissertation/Thesis Proposal: STEM Workshop, Graduate School. (March 31, 2017March 31, 2017).

Committee Member, Research Services Pre-award Search Committee, College of Engineering. (February 2017March 2017).

Committee Member, Federation Committee. (September 2015September 2016).

Committee Member, Bioengineering Search Committee. (September 2015August 2016).

Committee Member, College PAC. (September 2014August 2016).

Committee Member, Executive Committee. (September 2014August 2015).

Committee Member, Federation Committee. (September 2014August 2015).

Committee Member, Material Science Faculty Search Committee. (September 2014August 2015).

Committee Member, Bioinformatics Cluster PAC. (September 2013August 2014).

Committee Member, Executive Committee. (September 2013August 2014).

Chairperson, Faculty Search Committee. (September 2013August 2014).

Committee Member, Federation Committee. (September 2013August 2014).

Committee Member, Strategic Planning Committee. (September 2013August 2014).

Committee Member, Bioinformatics Cluster PAC. (September 2012August 2013).

Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (September 2012August 2013).

Committee Member, Graduate Committee. (September 2010August 2012).

Committee Member, Cluster Search Committee. (September 2010August 2011).

Committee Member, Bioinformatics Cluster Search Committee. (September 2009August 2010).

Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (September 2009August 2010).

Committee Member, Bioinformatics Cluster Faculty Search Committee. (September 2008August 2009).

Committee Member, Undergraduate Committee. (September 2008August 2009).

Committee Member, Faculty Executive Committee. (September 2007August 2008).

Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (September 2007August 2008).

Committee Member, Faculty Executive Committee. (September 2006August 2007).

Program Organizer, Colloquium Organizer. (September 2005August 2007).

Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (September 2003August 2006).

Committee Member, Undergraduate Committee. (September 2004August 2005).

Committee Member, Ad-hoc Course Prefix Committee Committee. (September 2003August 2004).

Professional Service

External T&P Letter Writer, New Jersey Institute of Technology. (2022 – Present).

Editor, Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (January 2021 – Present).

Other, 46th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. (January 2019 – Present).

Other, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station - TEES. (2016 – Present).

Editor, Associate Editor, An International Journal on Advances of Computer Science for Geographic Information Systems. (2011 – Present).

Committee Member, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). (April 20242025).

Committee Member, IEEE BigData Program Committee. (20242024).

Other, University of Minnesota Regents Professor Evaluation. (20242024).

Committee Member, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Program Committee. (20232024).

Committee Member, IEEE BigData Program Committee. (20232023).

Committee Member, 2023 ACM SIGSPATIAL 10-year Impact Award Selection Committee. (August 2023October 2023).

Other, National Science Foundation EPSCoR Program, Washington D.C.. (20222022).

Other, ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference. (2021).

External T&P Letter Writer, University of Texas at Tylor. (2021).

Reviewer, Journal Article, VLDB Journal Special Issue for Best VLDB 2020. (20212021).

Other, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). (20202021).

Other, ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference. (2020).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing. (20192020).

Committee Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference Best Paper Commitee. (20192019).

External T&P Letter Writer, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. (20192019).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation Career Panel. (20192019).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. (20192019).

Committee Member, The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. (January 2019December 2019).

External T&P Letter Writer, University of Washington Tacoma. (20192019).

Board of Directors, The Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) Endowment. (20142019).

Committee Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference Best Paper Commitee. (20182018).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transaction on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (20182018).

Session Chair, International Conference on Mobile Data Management. (20182018).

Other, National Science Foundation. (March 2018March 2018).

Program Organizer, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Big Spatial Data. (20172017).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (20172017).

Program Organizer, Geoprocessing. (20172017).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Knowledge and Information Systems. (20172017).

Other, National Science Foundation. (20172017).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (20172017).

Chairperson, Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (20172017).

Program Organizer, Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (20172017).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. (20172017).

Other, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). (April 2017April 2017).

Program Organizer, 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (EM-GIS). (20162016).

Program Organizer, 5th International Workshop on Urban Computing. (20162016).

Program Organizer, 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (20162016).

Program Organizer, ACM SIGSPATIAL. (20162016).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). (20162016).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (20162016).

Program Organizer, Big Spatial Data Workshop at IEEE Big Data Conference. (20162016).

Program Organizer, Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. (20162016).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES). (20162016).

Program Organizer, SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data. (20162016).

Program Organizer, 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (EM-GIS). (20152015).

Program Organizer, 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (EM-GIS). (20152015).

Program Organizer, 2nd International Workshop on Pattern Mining and Application of Big Data (BigPMA). (20152015).

Program Organizer, 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data. (20152015).

Program Organizer, 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS). (20152015).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (20152015).

Committee Member, Geocomputation. (20152015).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Mathematical Problems in Engineering. (20152015).

Reviewer, Book, Springer Book: Seeing Cities Through Big Data - Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics. (20152015).

Program Organizer, Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (20152015).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center. (20152015).

Chairperson, ACM SIGSpatial. (20142015).

Program Organizer, 1st International Workshop on Pattern Mining and Application of Big Data (BigPMA). (20142014).

Program Organizer, ACM SIGSPATIAL. (20142014).

Program Organizer, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (20142014).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transaction on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (20142014).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). (20142014).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Distributed and Parallel Databases. (20142014).

Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Grace Hopper Women in Computing Student Research Poster competition. (20142014).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. (20142014).

Program Organizer, International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp). (20142014).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. (20142014).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Computational Geometry. (20142014).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). (20142014).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES). (20142014).

Program Organizer, The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data. (20142014).

Program Organizer, 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (20132013).

Program Organizer, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data. (20132013).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. (20132013).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Distributed and Parallel Databases. (20132013).

Reviewer, Journal Article, EEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (20132013).

Other, Grace Hopper Women in Computing Student Research Poster competition. (20132013).

Program Organizer, he annual IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). (20132013).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (20132013).

Session Chair, International Conference on Mobile Data Management. (20132013).

Program Organizer, International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (20132013).

Program Organizer, International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining (SSTDM). (20132013).

Program Organizer, International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp). (20132013).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Spatial Science. (20132013).

Officer, Treasurer, The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM). (20132013).

Officer, Treasurer, ACM SIGSPATIAL. (20072013).

Program Organizer, 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data. (20122012).

Other, 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (20122012).

Program Organizer, 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (20122012).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). (20122012).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). (20122012).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Association for American Geographers. (20122012).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (20122012).

Program Organizer, International Workshop on Urban Computing at KDD. (20122012).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). (20122012).

Program Organizer, The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). (20122012).

Reviewer, Conference Paper, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). (20112011).

Program Organizer, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks. (20112011).

Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. (20112011).

Program Organizer, First International Workshop on Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining (SIM3). (20112011).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (20112011).

Track Organizer, Information Intelligence, Systems, Technology and Management. (20112011).

Other, International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (20112011).

Program Organizer, International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (20112011).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Transportation Research. (20112011).

Program Organizer, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing: Geospatial InfoFusion II. (20112011).

Program Organizer, The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). (20112011).

Program Organizer, The IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management. (20112011).

Program Organizer, 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (20102010).

Program Organizer, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). (20102010).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Frontiers of Earth Science. (20102010).

Program Organizer, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI). (20102010).

Program Organizer, International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (20102010).

Program Organizer, Second International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from Sensors and Streams. (20102010).

Program Organizer, 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA). (20092009).

Program Organizer, ACM SIGSpatial GIS (ACMGIS). (20092009).

Program Organizer, First International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from Sensors and Streams (DKSS). (20092009).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Geoinformatica. (20092009).

Program Organizer, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI). (20092009).

Program Organizer, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). (20092009).

Program Organizer, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA). (20092009).

Other, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. (20092009).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of VLDB. (20092009).

Program Organizer, SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM). (20092009).

Program Coordinator, The Eighth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA). (20092009).

Program Organizer, The International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services (GEOWS). (20092009).

Program Organizer, The Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM). (20092009).

Program Organizer, Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems (SNAS). (20092009).

Program Organizer, ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS). (20082008).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Computers & Geosciences. (20082008).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. (20082008).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. (20082008).

Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (20082008).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Travel Scholarship Applications for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. (20082008).

Program Organizer, Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining and Management (MDMM). (20082008).

Program Organizer, ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS). (20072007).

Other, Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. (20072007).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. (20072007).

Program Organizer, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI). (20072007).

Program Organizer, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM). (20072007).

Program Organizer, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA). (20072007).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). (20072007).

Program Organizer, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Management for Visualization, Analysis and Mining (SSTDM- VAM) workshop. (20072007).

Program Organizer, Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining and Management (MDMM). (20072007).

Program Organizer, 3rd International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN). (20062006).

Program Organizer, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). (20062006).

Program Organizer, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI). (20062006).

Program Organizer, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA). (20062006).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE). (20062006).

Program Organizer, Pacific Asian Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). (20062006).

Program Organizer, SIAM Intl. Conference on Data Mining (SDM). (20062006).

Program Organizer, WISE Workshop on Web-Based Massive Data Processing. (20062006).

Public Service

Other, University of Aalborg. (20162016).

Other, University of Melbourne. (20162016).

Other, University of Queensland. (20162016).

Awards and Honors

Distinguished Service Award, ACM SIGSpatial. (20102010).