Roopa
Vishwanathan, Ph.D. student of IMKD Lab,
successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis
titled "Exploring Privacy in Location-based
Services using Cryptographic Protocols" on
November
22nd, 2010. Congratulations, Dr. Vishwanathan!
Posted on December 17, 2010.
The
paper titled "T-Drive: DrivingDirections
Based on Taxi Trajectories" co-authored by
J. Yuan, Y. Zheng, C. Zhang, W.
Xie, X. Xie, G. Sun, Y. Huang won
Best Paper Runner Up at the
18th ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Conference, 2010, San Jose,
CA, November 2-5, 2010.
Posted on December 17, 2010.
Dr.
Yan Huang received the ACM SIGSpatial
Distinguished service award
at the SIGSpatial ACM GIS conference, November 05,
2010, San Jose, California. (Picture: Yan
Huang and Hanan Samet).
Posted on December 17, 2010.
Texas
Department of Transportation 0-6432 project
management team (PMC) visited
IMKD Lab and Dr. Bill Buckle's Lab on Oct. 25, 2010.
The PMC was shown the project
progress, live traffic surveillance video over
Loop 288, and video analytics implemented by the
project team.
Posted on October 26, 2010.
We
have received the following new grant from NSF:
Yan Huang (single PI), “III: Small: AegisDB: Integrated Real-Time Geo-Stream Processing and Monitoring System: A Data-Type-Based Approach”, Sep. 01, 2010 – Aug. 31, 2013, $450,562.
Posted on September 11, 2010.
Our
paper titled "Low Cost Region
Detection from Distributed Sensor Observations"
and authored by Chengyang Zhang and Yan Huang, won
Best
Paper Runner Up at the
11th International
Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) held in
city of Kansas City, Missouri, May 23rd - May
26th, 2010.
Posted on September 11, 2010.