I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science Department and Data Science Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). I obtained two Ph.D. degrees, in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2013, and Electrical Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2009, respectively. I am interested in analyzing, understanding, and making sense of big data generated from various complex networks in many contexts, including management and computing with urban network data, smart cities, and data-driven cyber-physical systems (CPS). I am a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
⧫ News
- Jun. 2017, I serve on TPC for AAAI 2018.
- May. 2017, One paper was accepted by ACM SIGKDD 2017.
- May. 2017, One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD).
- Apr. 2017, I serve on TPC for ICDM 2017, CIKM 2017, SIGSPATIAL 2017.
- Mar. 2017, I received an 1-year research grant from Pitney Bowes Inc.
- Mar. 2017, I gave invited talks in CS dep at UMASS Lowell on 3/27 and Civil and Environmental Engineering Dep at UMASS Amherst on 3/30, respectively.
- Feb. 2017, I serve on TPC for KDD 2017 Data Science Track.
- Feb. 2017, I gave a talk in Computer Science Colloquium at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
- Jan. 2017, I received a research grant from NSF CRII CPS program.
- Jan. 2017, Congratulations to Guojun and Yichen for our paper being accepted by ICDE 2017.
- Jan. 2017, I gave a talk in ECE Colloquium at Michigan Technological University.
- Nov. 2016, I serve on Publicity Co-Chair for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017.
- Nov. 2016, I gave a talk in Computer Science Colloquium at College of William and Mary.
- Oct. 2016, One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD).
- Oct. 2016, I serve on TPC for ACM SIGMETRICS 2017.
- Oct. 2016, I serve on TPC for IEEE ICDE 2017.
- Oct. 2016, I serve on TPC for IEEE ICCPS 2017.
- Sep. 2016, One paper was accepted by ICDM 2016.
- Sep. 2016, Two papers were accepted by SIGSPATIAL GIS 2016.
- Aug. 2016, One paper was accepted by ACM CIKM 2016.
- Jun. 2016, Congratulations to Ermal for our paper being accepted by ECML-PKDD 2016.
⧫ Representative Publications
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(full list of publications, Google Scholar, DBLP)
- KDD 2017
- Planning Bike Paths based on Sharing-Bikes' Trajectories
- ICDE 2017
- Mining Spatio-Temporal Reachable Regions over Massive Trajectory Data
- ICDE 2015
- Growing the Charging Station Network for Electric Vehicles with Trajectory Data Analytics
- ICDE 2014
- Region Sampling and Estimation of GeoSocial Data with Dynamic Range Calibration
- ICDM 2016
- The Optimal Distribution of Electric-Vehicle Chargers across A City
- ICDM 2015
- Dissecting Regional Weather-Traffic Sensitivity throughout a City
- CIKM 2016
- Collective Traffic Prediction with Partially Observed Traffic History using Location-Base Social Media
- CIKM 2015
- Sampling Big Trajectory Data
- SIGMOD 2015
- Telco Churn Prediction with Big Data
- SIGSPATIAL 2016
- Scalable User Assignment in Power Grids: A Data Driven Approach
- SIGSPATIAL 2016
- Mining the Most Influential k-Location Set from Massive Trajectories
- SIGSPATIAL 2015
- TaxiRec: Recommending Road Clusters to Taxi Drivers Using Ranking-based Extreme Learning Machines
- SIGSPATIAL 2014
- LORE: Exploiting Sequential Influence for Location Recommendations
- SIGSPATIAL 2014
- Exploring Cell Tower Data Dumps for Supervised Learning-based Point-of-Interest Prediction
- ECML-PKDD 2016
- PULSE: A Real Time System for Crowd Flow Prediction at Metropolitan Subway Stations
- WSDM 2013
- Influence Diffusion Dynamics and Influence Maximization in Social Networks with Friend and Foe Relationships
- e-Energy 2016
- Shepherd: Sharing Energy for Privacy Preserving in Hybrid AC-DC Microgrids
- IMC 2011
- Counting YouTube Videos via Random Prefix Sampling
- ICDCS 2013
- Coordinating In-Network Caching in Content-Centric Networks: Model and Analysis
- ICDCS 2011
- The Routing Continuum from Shortest Path to All-path: A Unifying Theory
- INFOCOM 2010
- Random Walks on Digraphs: A Theoretical Framework for Estimating Transmission Costs in Wireless Routing
- IEEE TBD 2017
- Mining the Most Influential k-Location Set From Massive Trajectories
- IEEE TBD 2016
- Detecting and Analyzing Urban Regions with High Impact of Weather Change on Transport
- IEEE TSC 2015
- iGeoRec: A Personalized and Efficient Geographical Location Recommendation Framework
- IEEE TNSM 2015
- How Much to Coordinate? Optimizing In-Network Caching in Content-Centric Networks
- IEEE TPDS 2014
- From Shortest-path to All-path: The Routing Continuum Theory and its applications
- GeoInformatica 2015
- Exploring Cell Tower Data Dumps for Supervised Learning-based Point-of-Interest Prediction
- ACM ToN 2013
- Random Walks and Green's Function on Digraphs: A Framework for Estimating Wireless Transmission Costs
- IEEE TVT 2013
- Trading Optimality for Scalability in Large-scale Wireless Network Opportunistic Routing
- Internet Mathematics 2014
- Voter Model on Signed Social Networks
- Internet Mathematics 2012
- Digraph Laplacian and the Degree of Asymmetry
⧫ Sponsors
Sincere gratitute to our sponsors from NSF and Pitney Bowes
⧫ Recent Professional Service
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Full list of professional service
- Panelist
- NSF 2017
- Pub Chair
- ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017
- TPC
- AAAI 2018
- TPC
- IEEE ICDM 2017
- TPC
- ACM CIKM 2017
- TPC
- ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017
- TPC
- ACM KDD 2017
- TPC
- SIGMETRICS 2017
- TPC
- IEEE ICDE 2017
- TPC
- IEEE ICCPS 2017
- TPC
- IEEE INFOCOM 2017
⧫ Media Coverage
- 5/2017
- Telegram & Gazette News
- 3/2017
- WPI Research News
- 3/2017
- WBJournal Online
⧫ Professional Appointments
- 2015-now
- Assistant Professor, WPI
- 2015
- Postdoc, U of Minnesota
- 2013-14
- Researcher, Noah's Ark Lab
- 2013
- Research Intern, HUAWEI Research Lab, CA
- 2012
- Research Intern, Bell Lab, NJ
- 2011
- Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Beijing
- 2009-13
- Research Assistant, U of Minnesota
⧫ Education
- Ph.D.
- Computer Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2013
- Ph.D.
- Electrical Engineering, Beijing U of Posts and Telecommunications, 2009
- MS
- Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, 2006
- BS
- Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, 2003