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Yan Huang

Title: Professor

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

College: College of Engineering

Curriculum Vitae

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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

Current Scheduled Teaching

CSCE 5218.001Deep LearningSpring 2025
CSCE 6950.947Doctoral DissertationSpring 2025
CSCE 6950.847Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
CSCE 6940.847Individual ResearchFall 2024
CSCE 6900.947Special ProblemsFall 8W2 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

CSCE 5218.002Deep LearningSpring 2024 SPOT
CSCE 6950.947Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
CSCE 6940.947Individual ResearchSpring 2024
CSCE 5950.847Master's ThesisSpring 2024
CSCE 6933.001Advanced Topics in Computer Science and EngineeringFall 2023 SPOT
CSCE 6950.847Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
CSCE 6940.847Individual ResearchFall 2023
CSCE 5950.847Master's ThesisFall 2023
CSCE 5950.847Master's ThesisSummer 10W 2023
CSCE 5218.002Deep LearningSpring 2023 SPOT
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
CSCE 5950.847Master's ThesisSpring 2023
CSCE 5900.847Special ProblemsSpring 2023
CSCE 6950.847Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
CSCE 5950.847Master's ThesisFall 2022
CSCE 5218.002Deep LearningSpring 2022 SPOT
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2021
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2020
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2019
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2019
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSpring 2019
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2018
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisFall 2018
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSummer 10W 2018
CSCE 2900.747Special Problems in Computer Science and EngineeringSummer 10W 2018
CSCE 5380.001Data MiningSpring 2018 SPOT
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2018
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSpring 2018
CSCE 5380.001Data MiningFall 2017 SPOT
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2017
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisFall 2017
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSummer 10W 2017
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSummer 10W 2017
CSCE 5380.001Data MiningSpring 2017 SPOT
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2017
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSpring 2017
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2016
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2016
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisFall 2016
CSCE 6900.747Special ProblemsFall 2016
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSummer 10W 2016
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSummer 10W 2016
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSummer 10W 2016
CSCE 4890.747Directed StudySpring 2016
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudySpring 2016
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2016
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2016
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSpring 2016
CSCE 4890.747Directed StudyFall 2015
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2015
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2015
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudySummer 10W 2015
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2015
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2015
CSCE 5380.001Data MiningFall 2014
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2014
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2014
CSCE 4350.001Introduction to Database Systems DesignFall 2014 Syllabus
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisFall 2014
CSCE 6350.001Advanced Topics in Database DesignSpring 2014
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudySpring 2014
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2014
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2014
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSpring 2014
CSCE 5380.001Data MiningFall 2013
CSCE 5350.001Database Systems IFall 2013
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudyFall 2013
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2013
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2013
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisFall 2013
CSCE 6350.001Advanced Topics in Database DesignSpring 2013
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2013
CSCE 5380.001Data MiningFall 2012
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudyFall 2012
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2012
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2012
CSCE 4350.001Introduction to Database Systems DesignFall 2012 Syllabus
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSummer 10W 2012
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSummer 10W 2012
CSCE 6350.001Advanced Topics in Database DesignSpring 2012
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2012
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2012
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSpring 2012
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudyFall 2011
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2011
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2011
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisFall 2011
CSCE 6350.001Advanced Topics in Database DesignSpring 2011
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudySpring 2011
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2011
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2011
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSpring 2011
CSCE 5380.001Data MiningFall 2010
CSCE 5350.001Database Systems IFall 2010
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudyFall 2010
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2010
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2010
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisFall 2010
CSCE 5900.747Special ProblemsFall 2010
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudySummer 10W 2010
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSummer 10W 2010
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSummer 10W 2010
CSCE 6350.001Advanced Topics in Database DesignSpring 2010
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudySpring 2010
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2010
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSpring 2010
CSCE 5380.001Data MiningFall 2009
CSCE 5350.001Database Systems IFall 2009
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudyFall 2009
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2009
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2009
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisFall 2009
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudySummer 10W 2009
CSCE 6350.001Advanced Database DesignSpring 2009
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2009
CSCE 6900.747Special ProblemsSpring 2009
CSCE 5350.001Database Systems IFall 2008
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2008
CSCE 5933.005Topics in Computer Science and EngineeringFall 2008
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSummer 10W 2008
CSCE 6350.001Advanced Database DesignSpring 2008
CSCE 4890.747Directed StudySpring 2008
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2008
CSCE 5900.747Special ProblemsSpring 2008
CSCE 5350.001Database Systems IFall 2007
CSCE 4350.001Introduction to Database Systems DesignFall 2007
CSCE 4950.747Special Problems in Computer Science and EngineeringFall 2007
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSummer 10W 2007
CSCE 6350.001Advanced Database DesignSpring 2007
CSCE 3110.001Data Structures and AlgorithmsSpring 2007
CSCE 4890.747Directed StudySpring 2007
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2007
CSCE 4890.747Directed StudyFall 2006
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2006
CSCE 4350.001Introduction to Database Systems DesignFall 2006
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisFall 2006
CSCE 5933.002Topics in Computer Science and EngineeringFall 2006
CSCE 4890.747Directed StudySummer 10W 2006
CSCE 5934.747Directed StudySummer 10W 2006
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSummer 10W 2006
CSCE 5950.747Master's ThesisSummer 10W 2006
CSCE 3110.001Data Structures and AlgorithmsSpring 2006
CSCE 4890.747Directed StudySpring 2006
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationSpring 2006
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2006
CSCE 5900.747Special ProblemsSpring 2006
CSCE 5350.003Database Systems IFall 2005
CSCE 6950.747Doctoral DissertationFall 2005
CSCE 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2005
CSCE 4350.001Introduction to Database Systems DesignFall 2005
CSCE 5900.747Special ProblemsFall 2005
CSCI 6940.747Individual ResearchSummer 10W 2005
CSCI 5890.747Directed StudySpring 2005
CSCI 6940.747Individual ResearchSpring 2005
CSCI 5950.747Master's ThesisSpring 2005
CSCI 5330.007Topics in Computer ScienceSpring 2005
CSCI 6330.003Advanced Topics in Computer ScienceFall 2004
CSCI 6940.747Individual ResearchFall 2004
CSCI 4350.001Introduction to Database Systems DesignFall 2004
CSCI 5950.747Master's ThesisFall 2004

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.

Contracts, Grants and 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).
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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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