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 urban big data, smart cities, and data-driven cyber-physical systems (CPS). I am a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM and AAAI.
⧫ News
[Best Paper] 04/2019: Our SDM'19 paper won Best Applied Data Science Paper Award (Project Link).[TPC] 04/2019 TPC for ICDM 2019, CIKM 2019, SIGSPATIAL GIS 2019.[Paper] 3/2019: One paper was accepted by TKDE.[Editor] 02/2019: I serve as an associate editor (AE) for ACM TIST. and a guest editor for ACM TDS.[TPC] 01/2019 TPC for IJCAI 2019 and KDD 2019.[Paper] 12/2018: Congratulations to Menghai for our paper being accepted by SDM 2019.[Paper] 10/2018: One paper was accepted by AAAI 2019.[Award] 09/2018: $1.75 million NSF grant from NSF SCC program.[Paper] 08/2018: Three papers were accepted by ICDM 2018, TKDE, TBD.[TPC] 06/2018 TPC for AAAI 2019 and NIPS 2018.[Editor] 05/2018: I serve as an associate editor (AE) for IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD).[Paper] 05/2018: One paper was accepted by KDD 2018.[Paper] 05/2018: Two papers were accepted by IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD).[Award] 03/2018: Research grant from DiDi Chuxing Research.[NSF] CMMI-1831140, "SCC: Leveraging Autonomous Shared Vehicles for Greater Community Health, Equity, Livability, and Prosperity (HELP)". (Subawarded to WPI), 9/2018-9/2021.[NSF] CNS-1657350, "CRII: CPS: CityLines: Designing Urban Hub-and-Spoke Transportation System with Data-Driven Cyber-Control", NSF CRII award from CPS program, 8/2017-7/2020.[Industry] DiDi Chuxing Research, "User Behavior Analysis for Ride-Hailing Services", 3/2018-.- Urban Data Analytics:
- SDM 2019
(Best Paper Award!) Dissecting the Learning Curve of Taxi Drivers: A Data-Driven Approach- KDD 2018
- Detecting Illegal Vehicle Parking Events using Sharing Bikes' Trajectories
- KDD 2017
- Planning Bike Paths based on Sharing-Bikes' Trajectories
- AAAI 2019
- Predicting Urban Dispersal Events: A Two-Stage Framework through Deep Survival Analysis on Mobility Data
- ICDM 2018
- Human-Centric Urban Transit Evaluation and Planning
- ICDM 2016
- The Optimal Distribution of Electric-Vehicle Chargers across A City
- ICDM 2015
- Dissecting Regional Weather-Traffic Sensitivity throughout a City
- 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
- SIGMOD 2015
- Telco Churn Prediction with Big Data
- SIGSPATIAL 2017
- CityLines: Hybrid Hub-and-Spoke Urban Transit System
- SIGSPATIAL 2017
- Forecasting Gathering Events through Continuous Destination Prediction on Big Trajectory Data
- SIGSPATIAL 2017
- Querying Massive Trajectories by Path on the Cloud
- IEEE TKDE 2019
- Interactive Bike Lane Planning using Sharing Bikes’ Trajectories
- IEEE TKDE 2018
- User Preference Analysis for Most Frequent Peer/Dominator
- IEEE TKDE 2017
- TaxiRec: Recommending Road Clusters to Taxi Drivers Using Ranking-based Extreme Learning Machines
- IEEE TBD 2018
- CityLines: Designing Hybrid Hub-and-Spoke Transit System with Urban Big Data
- IEEE TBD 2018
- Efficient Path Query Processing over Massive Trajectories on the Cloud
- IEEE TBD 2018
- Sampling Big Trajectory Data for Traversal Trajectory Aggregate Query
- IEEE TBD 2017
- Mining the Most Influential k-Location Set From Massive Trajectories
- IEEE TBD 2017
- Detecting and Analyzing Urban Regions with High Impact of Weather Change on Transport
- IEEE TBD 2017
- Scalable User-Substation Assignment with Big Data from Power Grids
- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS):
- CDC 2017
- Data-driven inverse learning of passenger preferences in urban public transits
- RTSS 2017
- REC: Predictable Charging Scheduling for Electric Taxi Fleets
- e-Energy 2016
- Shepherd: Sharing Energy for Privacy Preserving in Hybrid AC-DC Microgrids
⧫ Ongoing Research Projects
(full list of awards/grants.)⧫ Recent Publications
⧫ Sponsors
Sincere gratitude to our sponsors from NSF, DiDi Chuxing, Pitney Bowes Inc., and NVIDIA.
⧫ Research Interests:
⧫ Recent Professional Service
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Full list of professional service
- Panelist
- NSF 2017-2019
- Pub Chair
- ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017-18
- TPC
- IJCAI 2019
- TPC
- KDD 2019
- TPC
- ICDM 2019
- TPC
- AAAI 2019
- TPC
- CIKM 2019
- TPC
- NIPS 2018
- TPC
- SIGSPATIAL 2019
⧫ 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, Hong Kong
- 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