PANEL 2


Smart Cities and Mobility


Day 4 - MDM Research III: Fri., Jun. 18
Toronto Seattle Paris Athens Beijing Brisbane
EDT (UTC-4) PDT (UTC-7) CEST (UTC+2) EEST (UTC+3) CST (UTC+8) AEST (UTC+10)
10:30 - 12:00 7:30 - 9:00 16:30 - 18:00 17:30 - 19:00 22:30 - 00:00 00:30 - 02:00

Session co-chairs: Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University, US) and Maria Papadopouli (University of Crete, Greece)

Abstract

The use of mobile data in urban settings involves a wealth of research challenges in integrating, querying, behavior and trend modeling and prediction. This panel aims to highlight these challenges as well as exciting avenues for cross-collaboration. It will include a brief introduction and short individual presentations from the panelists, followed by a longer session of general discussion and open Q&A from the audience.

Panelists

  • Sanjay Chawla, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

    Sanjay Chawla is the Research Director at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). Before joining QCRI in 2014 he was a Professor at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Engineering and served as the head of the School of Information Technologies. His research interests span data mining, machine learning and spatial data management. He is the co-author on the text, Spatial Databases: A Tour. His recent projects include planet-scale road network inference from satellite imagery (asm.qcri.org) and the use of reinforcement learning for traffic signal optimization. He received his PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1995.


  • Xin Chen, Amazon Web Services, USA

    Xin Chen is a senior manager and head of automotive vertical at Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab. He leads his team to help AWS customers identify and build machine learning solutions to address their organization’s highest return-on-investment machine learning opportunities. Prior to Amazon, Xin was a director of engineering at HERE Technologies whose team completed pioneering work to achieve the automation of next generation map creation. Xin is an adjunct faculty at Northwestern U. and Illinois Institute of Technology. Xin obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.


  • Scott Counts, Microsoft, USA

    Scott Counts is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, working in the area of computational social science. His work focuses on applying insights from analyses of large scale naturalistic data to problems of interest to society. As research manager of the Urban Innovation group at Microsoft Research Redmond, his research is centered around productivity and economic development, environmental impact, and social equity in urban areas.


  • Mina Sartipi, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA

    Mina Sartipi is the Founding Director of the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), where she is also a Guerry Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department. Her research, funded by NSF, NIH, DOE, State of the Tennessee, Lyndhurst Foundation, and industry organizations, focuses on data-driven approaches to tackle real-world challenges in smart city applications focused on mobility, energy, and health. At CUIP, she coordinates cross-disciplinary research and strategic visions for urbanism and smart cities advancement with a focus on people and quality of life. She received her BS in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2001 and her MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2003 and 2006, respectively.


  • Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA

    Cyrus Shahabi is a Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Spatial Sciences; Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor of Engineering; the chair of the Computer Science Department; and the director of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering. He was co-founder of two USC spin-offs, Geosemble Technologies and Tallygo, which both were acquired, in July 2012 and March 2019, respectively. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He authored two books and more than three hundred research papers in databases, GIS and multimedia with more than 12 US Patents. He is currently on the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS) and ACM Computers in Entertainment. He was the chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL for the 2017-2020 term and also chaired the founding nomination committee of ACM SIGSPATIAL for its first term (2011-2014 term). Dr. Shahabi is a fellow of IEEE, and a recipient of the ACM Distinguished Scientist award, U.S. Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and the NSF CAREER award.