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Dr. Yan Huang

Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

(950) 369-8353

Email: Yan.Huang@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Minnesota, 2003
    Major: Computer and Information Sciences
    Dissertation: 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. University of North Texas. (2014 - Present).
  • Associate Professor, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2009 - 2014).
  • Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2003 - 2009).

Development Activities

  • Faculty Fellowship, Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES), Drexel University Provost Office. United States of America. (2019 - 2021).

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, 4 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, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 6933 - Advanced Topics in Computer Science and Engineering, 1 course.
  • CSCE 6940 - Individual Research, 30 courses.
  • CSCE 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 39 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. (2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023).
  • Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2021).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2021).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2017).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Spatial temporal analysis of air quality data from low cost sensors," Computer Science and Engineering. (2023 - 2024).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023 - 2023).
  • Postdoctoral Research Supervision, Computer Science and Engineering. (2023 - 2023).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (May 2018 - 2023).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2013 - 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2015 - 2021).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2012 - 2021).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2015 - 2020).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2013 - 2020).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2017 - 2019).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2015 - 2019).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2013 - 2019).
  • Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (2017 - 2018).
  • Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (2017 - 2018).
  • Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (2017 - 2018).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2014 - 2018).
  • Supervised Research, Computer Science and Engineering. (2017).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2016 - 2017).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2015 - 2017).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2014 - 2017).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2013 - 2017).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2012 - 2017).
  • Major Professor, "Location Estimation and Geo-Correlated Information Trends," Computer Science and Engineering. (2012 - 2017).
  • Other (Co-advisor), "Data-Driven Decision-Making for Large-Scale Dynamical Systems Under Uncertainty," Computer Science and Engineering. (2016).
  • Supervised Research, Computer Science and Engineering. (2014 - 2016).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2012 - 2015).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2010 - 2015).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2010 - 2015).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2009 - 2015).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2006 - 2015).
  • 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. (2012 - 2014).
  • Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (2012 - 2014).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2010 - 2014).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2008 - 2014).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2007 - 2014).
  • Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (2013 - 2013).
  • Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (2013 - 2013).
  • Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (2013 - 2013).
  • Supervised Research, Computer Science and Engineering. (2012 - 2013).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2009 - 2013).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2008 - 2013).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2005 - 2013).
  • Supervised Research, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (2010 - 2012).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2009 - 2012).
  • Major Professor, "GPS CaPPture: A System for GPS Trajectory Collection, Processing, and Destination Prediction," Computer Science and Engineering. (2004 - 2012).
  • Internship Advisor, Computer Science and Engineering. (March 2012 - May 2012).
  • Other (Co-advisor), "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. (2007 - 2011).
  • Major Professor, "Towards a Data-Type-Based Real Time Geospatial Data Stream Management System," Computer Science and Engineering. (2006 - 2011).
  • Major Professor, "A Wireless Traffic Surveillance System Using Video Analytics," Computer Science and Engineering. (May 2011).
  • Other (Co-advisor), "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. (2007 - 2009).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (2004 - 2006).
  • Major Professor, Computer Science and Engineering. (2003 - 2006).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (2003 - 2005).

Awards and Honors

  • Regents Professor, University of Texas. (February 10, 2021).
  • 10-year Impact Runner Up, ACM SIGSPAITAL. (November 1, 2020).
  • Best Research Paper, IEEE 24th InternationalConference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI). (2023).
  • Decker Scholar, University of North Texas. (2019).
  • 10-Year Impact Award, ACM SIGSPATIAL. (2019).
  • ACM Distinguished Scientist, Associate of Computing Machinery (ACM). (2019).
  • Best Paper Runner Up, IEEE Int. Conf. on Big Data and Smart Computing. (2019).
  • University of North Texas Leadership Fellow, University of North Texas. (2016).
  • Selected to participate in Leadership in Science Policy Institute, Computing Research Association (CRA). (2013).
  • Best Paper Runner Up, ACM SIGSPATIAL. (2010).
  • Best Paper Runner Up, IEEE MDM Conference. (2010).
  • Distinguished Service Award, ACM SIGSpatial. (2010).
  • Best Paper Honorable Mention, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference. (2009).
  • Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities. (2005).

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

  • Gu, X., Fan, H., Huang, Y., Luo, T., Zhang, L. (2024). Context-Guided Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
  • 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. (2018 - 2018).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • 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), "Intelligent Distributed Sensing," sponsored by Army Research Lab/Northeastern University, Federal, $902266 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
  • Li, X. (Principal), Luyen, H.T. (Co-Principal), Huang, Y. (Co-Principal), Derryberry, R.T. (Supporting), "Novel Beamforming and Directional Communication Development," sponsored by Army Research Lab/Northeastern University, Federal, $397734 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
  • 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. (2023 - 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. (2023 - 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. (2020 - 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. (2018 - 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. (2016 - 2019).
  • Huang, Y. (Principal), "Geotagging Social Media for Enhanced Location-based Search," sponsored by Department of Defense, Federal, $450000 Funded. (2013 - 2017).
  • Huang, Y. (Principal), "U.S.-Based Student Support to Attend ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014," sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, Funded. (2014 - 2015).
  • Yang, Q. (Co-Principal), Huang, Y. (Principal), "Advancing Warfighter Technologies In The Area of Expeditionary Cyber: ACRN002, Trust through Machine Learning in Expeditionary Cyber Systems," sponsored by George J. Kostas Research Institute, IND, Funded. (2018 - 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, Funded. (2018 - 2020).
  • Huang, Y. (Principal), "Geotagging Social Media for Enhanced Location-Based Search," sponsored by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, FED, Funded. (2013 - 2017).

    • 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. (2004 - 2010).

    • 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. (2012 - 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. (2010 - 2014).
  • Huang, Y. (Other), "RET Site: Research Experiences for Teachers in Sensor Networks," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $500000 Funded. (2011 - 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. (2010 - 2013).

Service

University Service

  • Faculty Mentor, Faculty Mentor for Zhuqing Liu. (2024 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Selection Committee of Distinguished Engineering Lecture Series. (2024 - Present).
  • Faculty Mentor, Faculty Mentor for Jing Yuan. (2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Award Committee. (2023 - 2024).
  • Committee Chair, Faculty Search Subcommittee. (2023 - 2024).
  • Committee Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee. (2023 - 2024).
  • Committee Member, Research and Creativity Awards. (2023 - 2024).
  • Faculty Mentor, Table Mentors: Faculty Speed Mentoring. (October 2024 - October 2024).
  • Committee Chair, TT Faculty Search Committee. (2021 - 2022).
  • Committee Chair, R1 Our Way. (August 2019 - 2022).
  • Committee Member, Digital Strategy and Innovation Advisory Committee. (January 2019 - January 2022).
  • Committee Member, Academic Integrity Committee. (September 2020 - 2021).
  • Other (Project Leader), Graduate Enrollment Process Improvement Committee. (February 2019 - May 2020).
  • Member, ASEE Engineering Research Council. (September 2016 - January 2020).
  • Committee Member, Research Visioning Committee. (March 2019 - December 2019).
  • Committee Member, Vice Provost for Faculty Success Search Committee. (March 2019 - December 2019).
  • Committee Member, Research Space Adjudication Subcommittee. (August 1, 2018 - August 31, 2019).
  • Committee Member, Regent Professor Evaluation Committee. (September 2016 - August 2019).
  • Committee Member, Research Services Post-award Search Committee,. (2018 - 2018).
  • Committee Member, CENG Dean Search Committee. (January 2018 - August 2018).
  • Committee Member, Compliance Vice President Search Committee. (September 2017 - August 2018).
  • Committee Member, Murchison Professor Search Commitee. (September 2017 - August 2018).
  • Committee Member, Biomedical Engineering Facility Planning Committee, College of Engineering. (September 2016 - August 2018).
  • Chairperson, Graduate Council, College of Engineering. (September 2016 - August 2018).
  • Member, Information Science Expedited Tenure and Promotion Review Committee. (March 2018 - April 2018).
  • University Senate Service, Faculty Senate Graduate Council. (September 2016 - August 2017).
  • Committee Member, Planning and Implementation Committee for a Potential Data Informatics and Analytics Institute. (September 2016 - August 2017).
  • Task Force Member, Visioning Task Force for a Potential Data Science and Analytics Institute. (September 2016 - August 2017).
  • Workshop Organizer, Writing the Dissertation/Thesis Proposal: STEM Workshop, Graduate School. (March 31, 2017 - March 31, 2017).
  • Committee Member, Research Services Pre-award Search Committee, College of Engineering. (February 2017 - March 2017).
  • Committee Member, Federation Committee. (September 2015 - September 2016).
  • Committee Member, Bioengineering Search Committee. (September 2015 - August 2016).
  • Committee Member, College PAC. (September 2014 - August 2016).
  • Committee Member, Executive Committee. (September 2014 - August 2015).
  • Committee Member, Federation Committee. (September 2014 - August 2015).
  • Committee Member, Material Science Faculty Search Committee. (September 2014 - August 2015).
  • Committee Member, Bioinformatics Cluster PAC. (September 2013 - August 2014).
  • Committee Member, Executive Committee. (September 2013 - August 2014).
  • Chairperson, Faculty Search Committee. (September 2013 - August 2014).
  • Committee Member, Federation Committee. (September 2013 - August 2014).
  • Committee Member, Strategic Planning Committee. (September 2013 - August 2014).
  • Committee Member, Bioinformatics Cluster PAC. (September 2012 - August 2013).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (September 2012 - August 2013).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Committee. (September 2010 - August 2012).
  • Committee Member, Cluster Search Committee. (September 2010 - August 2011).
  • Committee Member, Bioinformatics Cluster Search Committee. (September 2009 - August 2010).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (September 2009 - August 2010).
  • Committee Member, Bioinformatics Cluster Faculty Search Committee. (September 2008 - August 2009).
  • Committee Member, Undergraduate Committee. (September 2008 - August 2009).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Executive Committee. (September 2007 - August 2008).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (September 2007 - August 2008).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Executive Committee. (September 2006 - August 2007).
  • Program Organizer, Colloquium Organizer. (September 2005 - August 2007).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee. (September 2003 - August 2006).
  • Committee Member, Undergraduate Committee. (September 2004 - August 2005).
  • Committee Member, Ad-hoc Course Prefix Committee Committee. (September 2003 - August 2004).

Public Service

  • Other (External Thesis Reviewer/Committee), University of Aalborg. (2016 - 2016).
  • Other (External Thesis Reviewer/Committee), University of Melbourne. (2016 - 2016).
  • Other (External Thesis Reviewer/Committee), University of Queensland. (2016 - 2016).

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 (Regional Division Head), 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).
  • Board of Directors, Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing. (2024 - 2027).
  • Committee Member, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). (April 2024 - 2025).
  • Committee Member, 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. (2024 - 2024).
  • Committee Member, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (2024 - 2024).
  • Committee Member, IEEE BigData Program Committee. (2024 - 2024).
  • Committee Member, IEEE BigData Program Committee. (2024 - 2024).
  • Other (Panel Chair), The Seventh ACSIC Symposium on Frontiers in Computing (SOFC). (2024 - 2024).
  • Other (External Reference), University of Minnesota Regents Professor Evaluation. (2024 - 2024).
  • Committee Member, Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Program Committee. (2023 - 2024).
  • External T&P Letter Writer, University of Texas at Tylor Tenure and Promotion. Tylor, Texas. (September 2024 - October 2024).
  • Other (Career Panel), National Science Foundation. (October 15, 2024 - October 16, 2024).
  • Other (Career Panel), National Science Foundation. (October 1, 2024 - October 3, 2024).
  • Committee Member, IEEE BigData Program Committee. (2023 - 2023).
  • Committee Member, 2023 ACM SIGSPATIAL 10-year Impact Award Selection Committee. (August 2023 - October 2023).
  • Other (Panelist), National Science Foundation EPSCoR Program. Washington D.C., (2022 - 2022).
  • Other (Program Committee Co-Chair), 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. (2021 - 2021).
  • Other (Financial Chair), IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). (2020 - 2021).
  • Other (Program Committee Co-Chair), ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference. (2020).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing. (2019 - 2020).
  • Other (Program Committee Member), 46th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. (January 2019 - 2019).
  • Committee Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference Best Paper Commitee. (2019 - 2019).
  • External T&P Letter Writer, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. (2019 - 2019).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation Career Panel. (2019 - 2019).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. (2019 - 2019).
  • Committee Member, The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. (January 2019 - December 2019).
  • External T&P Letter Writer, University of Washington Tacoma. (2019 - 2019).
  • Board of Directors, The Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) Endowment. (2014 - 2019).
  • Committee Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference Best Paper Commitee. (2018 - 2018).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transaction on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (2018 - 2018).
  • Session Chair, International Conference on Mobile Data Management. (2018 - 2018).
  • Other (CISE IIS Panelist), National Science Foundation. (March 2018 - March 2018).
  • Program Organizer, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Big Spatial Data. (2017 - 2017).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (2017 - 2017).
  • Program Organizer, Geoprocessing. (2017 - 2017).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Knowledge and Information Systems. (2017 - 2017).
  • Other (Career Panel), National Science Foundation. (2017 - 2017).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (2017 - 2017).
  • Chairperson, Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (2017 - 2017).
  • Program Organizer, Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (2017 - 2017).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. (2017 - 2017).
  • Other (Panel Memember), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). (April 2017 - April 2017).
  • Program Organizer, 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (EM-GIS). (2016 - 2016).
  • Program Organizer, 5th International Workshop on Urban Computing. (2016 - 2016).
  • Program Organizer, 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (2016 - 2016).
  • Program Organizer, ACM SIGSPATIAL. (2016 - 2016).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). (2016 - 2016).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (2016 - 2016).
  • Program Organizer, Big Spatial Data Workshop at IEEE Big Data Conference. (2016 - 2016).
  • Program Organizer, Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. (2016 - 2016).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES). (2016 - 2016).
  • Program Organizer, SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data. (2016 - 2016).
  • Program Organizer, 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (EM-GIS). (2015 - 2015).
  • Program Organizer, 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (EM-GIS). (2015 - 2015).
  • Program Organizer, 2nd International Workshop on Pattern Mining and Application of Big Data (BigPMA). (2015 - 2015).
  • Program Organizer, 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data. (2015 - 2015).
  • Program Organizer, 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (IWCTS). (2015 - 2015).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (2015 - 2015).
  • Committee Member, Geocomputation. (2015 - 2015).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Mathematical Problems in Engineering. (2015 - 2015).
  • Reviewer, Book, Springer Book: Seeing Cities Through Big Data - Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics. (2015 - 2015).
  • Program Organizer, Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (2015 - 2015).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center. (2015 - 2015).
  • Chairperson, ACM SIGSpatial. (2014 - 2015).
  • Program Organizer, 1st International Workshop on Pattern Mining and Application of Big Data (BigPMA). (2014 - 2014).
  • Program Organizer, ACM SIGSPATIAL. (2014 - 2014).
  • Program Organizer, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (2014 - 2014).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transaction on Spatial Algorithms and Systems. (2014 - 2014).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). (2014 - 2014).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Distributed and Parallel Databases. (2014 - 2014).
  • Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Grace Hopper Women in Computing Student Research Poster competition. (2014 - 2014).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. (2014 - 2014).
  • Program Organizer, International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp). (2014 - 2014).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. (2014 - 2014).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Computational Geometry. (2014 - 2014).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). (2014 - 2014).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES). (2014 - 2014).
  • Program Organizer, The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data. (2014 - 2014).
  • Program Organizer, 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (2013 - 2013).
  • Program Organizer, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data. (2013 - 2013).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. (2013 - 2013).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Distributed and Parallel Databases. (2013 - 2013).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, EEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (2013 - 2013).
  • Other (Judge), Grace Hopper Women in Computing Student Research Poster competition. (2013 - 2013).
  • Program Organizer, he annual IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). (2013 - 2013).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (2013 - 2013).
  • Session Chair, International Conference on Mobile Data Management. (2013 - 2013).
  • Program Organizer, International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (2013 - 2013).
  • Program Organizer, International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining (SSTDM). (2013 - 2013).
  • Program Organizer, International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp). (2013 - 2013).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Spatial Science. (2013 - 2013).
  • Officer, Treasurer, The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM). (2013 - 2013).
  • Officer, Treasurer, ACM SIGSPATIAL. (2007 - 2013).
  • Program Organizer, 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data. (2012 - 2012).
  • Other (Panelist), 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (2012 - 2012).
  • Program Organizer, 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (2012 - 2012).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). (2012 - 2012).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD). (2012 - 2012).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Association for American Geographers. (2012 - 2012).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (2012 - 2012).
  • Program Organizer, International Workshop on Urban Computing at KDD. (2012 - 2012).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). (2012 - 2012).
  • Program Organizer, The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). (2012 - 2012).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). (2011 - 2011).
  • Program Organizer, ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks. (2011 - 2011).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. (2011 - 2011).
  • Program Organizer, First International Workshop on Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining (SIM3). (2011 - 2011).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (2011 - 2011).
  • Track Organizer, Information Intelligence, Systems, Technology and Management. (2011 - 2011).
  • Other (Publication chair), International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases. (2011 - 2011).
  • Program Organizer, International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (2011 - 2011).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Transportation Research. (2011 - 2011).
  • Program Organizer, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing: Geospatial InfoFusion II. (2011 - 2011).
  • Program Organizer, The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). (2011 - 2011).
  • Program Organizer, The IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management. (2011 - 2011).
  • Program Organizer, 19th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (2010 - 2010).
  • Program Organizer, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). (2010 - 2010).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Frontiers of Earth Science. (2010 - 2010).
  • Program Organizer, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI). (2010 - 2010).
  • Program Organizer, International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS). (2010 - 2010).
  • Program Organizer, Second International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from Sensors and Streams. (2010 - 2010).
  • Program Organizer, 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA). (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Organizer, ACM SIGSpatial GIS (ACMGIS). (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Organizer, First International Workshop on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from Sensors and Streams (DKSS). (2009 - 2009).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Geoinformatica. (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Organizer, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI). (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Organizer, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Organizer, International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA). (2009 - 2009).
  • Other (Publicity chair), International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. (2009 - 2009).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of VLDB. (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Organizer, SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM). (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Coordinator, The Eighth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA). (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Organizer, The International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services (GEOWS). (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Organizer, The Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM). (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Organizer, Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems (SNAS). (2009 - 2009).
  • Program Organizer, ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS). (2008 - 2008).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Computers & Geosciences. (2008 - 2008).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. (2008 - 2008).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. (2008 - 2008).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (2008 - 2008).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, Travel Scholarship Applications for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. (2008 - 2008).
  • Program Organizer, Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining and Management (MDMM). (2008 - 2008).
  • Program Organizer, ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS). (2007 - 2007).
  • Other (Publicity chair), Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. (2007 - 2007).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. (2007 - 2007).
  • Program Organizer, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI). (2007 - 2007).
  • Program Organizer, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM). (2007 - 2007).
  • Program Organizer, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA). (2007 - 2007).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS). (2007 - 2007).
  • Program Organizer, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Management for Visualization, Analysis and Mining (SSTDM- VAM) workshop. (2007 - 2007).
  • Program Organizer, Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining and Management (MDMM). (2007 - 2007).
  • Program Organizer, 3rd International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN). (2006 - 2006).
  • Program Organizer, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). (2006 - 2006).
  • Program Organizer, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI). (2006 - 2006).
  • Program Organizer, International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA). (2006 - 2006).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE). (2006 - 2006).
  • Program Organizer, Pacific Asian Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). (2006 - 2006).
  • Program Organizer, SIAM Intl. Conference on Data Mining (SDM). (2006 - 2006).
  • Program Organizer, WISE Workshop on Web-Based Massive Data Processing. (2006 - 2006).